How Kamal Nath government toppled over in MP
The Congress lost Madhya Pradesh within 15 months of assuming power in December 2018
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Sept 3:
Congress wins MP elections, replacing BJP that ruled the state for 15 consecutive years. Congress gets 114 seats and BJP 109 against the majority mark of 116 in the 230-member assembly.
Patwari. Later, it turns out there were 10 MLAS, including seven from Congress. Four of the MLAS, including three from Congress, fly to Bengaluru and go incommunicado. In the next few days, eight more, including six Congress MLAS, return and show their support to Nath.
March 13: Nath meets guv and hands over a letter, requesting him to use his good office for the rescue of MLAS from ‘the BJP leaders’ captivity’, with the help of union home minister Amit Shah. Scindia files his nomination papers for RS
March 14:
Speaker Prajapati accepts resignations of six MLAS, who were ministers. A delegation of BJP leaders, including Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Gopal Bhargava, Narottam Mishra, Bhupendra Singh, meets the Governor, hands over a letter to him and requests him to ask the Congress to prove its majority. March 14/15: In a midnight missive to the CM, the Governor asks him to seek trust vote on the very first day of the state assembly’s budget session on March 16 immediately after his (Governor’s) address
March 15: CM claims he enjoys the majority in the House as he had proved it several times in the past but there will be no meaning of a floor test if it is held with
Cong MLAS being held captive
March 16: No floor test is held. Assembly adjourned till March 26 citing concern over the impact of Coronavirus outbreak. 10 BJP MLAS led by former chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan move the Supreme Court to challenge the Speaker’s decision. March 17: In a letter to the Governor, the CM reiterates his stand and says if any floor test is held in the absence of 22 Congress MLAS held captive; it will be unconstitutional, dares BJP to come with a no-confidence motion March 18: Digvijaya Singh, Congress’ Rajya Sabha candidate accompanied by KPCC president DK Shivakumar, reaches Bengaluru resort to meet at least six ministers of Nath cabinet and three other MLAS. MLAS refuse to meet them
March 19: Supreme Court allows Chouhan’s petition and orders a floor test in the state assembly.
March 20. Speaker Prajapati accepts resignation of 16 MLAS.
March 20: