Kamal Nath’s “Hit The Streets” Remark Made Us Give up: Former Congress MLAs

Bhopal:

Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath’s statement that celebration member Jyotiraditya Scindia “can hit the streets if he needs to” rankled with the MLAs who have been dependable to him and resulted in their go out from the celebration, former MLAs mentioned.

Mr Scindia, a former Union minister, and 22 MLAs who supported him hand over the celebration previous this month and joined the BJP, resulting in cave in of the Leader Minister (now former) Kamal Nath-led govt in Madhya Pradesh.

“The sidelining of our chief for the closing 15 months and the (then) leader ministers commentary ‘let him take to the streets then’ was once the cause that led to never-before exodus via legislators together with six cupboard ministers,” mentioned Tulsiram Silawat, one of the vital ministers who resigned.

It was once believed that one of the vital calls for of Mr Scindia was once that Mr Silawat, his loyalist, be made the deputy leader minister.

Mr Silawat mentioned that “no one within the historical past of Congress celebration had put all his would possibly at stake for creating a Dalit chief deputy leader minister, like Mr Scindia did.”

“What was once unsuitable with it?” he requested.

“The Congress got here again to energy in Madhya Pradesh as a result of Mr Scindia was once the celebration’s face. We had made quite a lot of guarantees to humans earlier than meeting elections in 2018 and when our chief mentioned if the guarantees weren’t fulfilled, then he’s going to hit the roads, what was once unsuitable with it,” requested Dr Prabhram Chouhdary, some other former minister.

“As an alternative of addressing the worries of our chief, the then leader minister and different ministers humiliated him via telling media that he must hit the roads, if he sought after to,” mentioned some other former minister Mahendra Singh Sisodia.

To senior Congress chief Digvijay Singh calling Mr Scindia and his supporters “betrayers,” Mr Sisodia mentioned even Laxman Singh, Mr Digivijay’s brother, had as soon as joined the BJP, however he was once no longer dubbed as betrayer via his elder brother.

Former minister Govind Singh Rajput refuted allegations that the BJP paid them massive sums of cash for switching loyalty.

“This can be a completely baseless allegation and an try to malign our chief’s symbol,” he mentioned.

When requested at what level they made up our minds to section tactics with the Congress, they all mentioned that Kamal Nath’s dismissive statement about Mr Scindia was once the turning level. “Now everybody can see who’s in the street,” they added.

“They label us traitors, however in truth it was once they who remained silent and didn’t oppose anti-people selections (of Kamal Nath govt),” mentioned some other former minister, Pradyumna Singh Tomar.

“No longer simply the manager minister, however even officers weren’t taking note of our issues… on this nation humans cannot even call to mind quitting the put up of sarpanch, however we resigned as cupboard ministers for the satisfaction of our Maharaj (as Mr Scindia is continuously referred to),” Mr Rajput mentioned.