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Even as senior Congress leaders insisted there was no possibility of former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath leaving the party for the BJP, some in the party’s state unit admitted things had gone downhill ever since the disastrous showing in the Assembly polls and his ouster as state president.
The Rajya Sabha elections on February 27 may not change the BJP’s tally in the Upper House, but its look will be starkly different. Among the 28 names announced by the party – the same as the number of seats held by it currently – 24 are new, with only four repeated.
Angry Congress workers held up placards with photographs of Jabalpur Mayor Jagat Bahadur Singh “Annu”, with the words “vinamra shraddhanjali (humble tribute)” written on them, even as others took a dip in the Narmada and performed “death rites” on its banks.
In a setback to the Congress in Madhya Pradesh just a couple of months before the Lok Sabha elections, Jabalpur Mayor Jagat Singh Annu quit the party to join the ruling BJP Wednesday, saying he was upset with the Congress since it declined the invitation for the Ram Mandir consecration ceremony in Ayodhya last month.
The new state Cabinets of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Telangana have got into business over the past month, taking key decisions ahead of the coming Lok Sabha polls. Most announcements have been on the implementation of poll promises.
Madhya Pradesh was one of the four states where the BJP was in power and where the government was dismissed in the aftermath of the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992. Now, the state where the BJP returned to power in December after receiving an overwhelming mandate is gearing up for the inauguration of the Ram Temple on January 22.