One more ‘missing’ MLA surfaces, two ‘untraced’

One more Madhya Pradesh MLA, who along with three other lawmakers went missing five days ago creating a ripple in the ruling Congress, surfaced in Bengaluru and returned to Bhopal on Sunday.

Congress lawmaker Bisahulal Singh, a close aide of former chief minister Digvijay Singh, arrived in Indore from Bengaluru in the afternoon and was later brought to Bhopal in the state plane.

State tourism minister Surendra Singh air dashed to Bengaluru to bring Mr Singh back to Madhya Pradesh. The

MLA proceeded straight to chief minister Kamal Nath’s official residence from Bhopal airport for a meeting with Mr Nath. He later told reporters, “I am with Congress and will be in Congress.”

However, two more MLAs — Hardeep Singh Dang and Raghuraj Kansana (both from Congress) — are still ‘missing’, indicating that the political drama may prolong.

Mr Dang had earlier sent his resignation letter to the speaker of assembly N.P. Prajapati and Mr Nath.

In a new twist to the ongoing political drama, Independent MLA Surendra Singh Sera who appeared in Bhopal on Saturday after beging ‘missing’ for four days, returned to Bengaluru in the same night, creating a ripple in the political circle here.

However, a senior Congress leader said Mr Sera was sent to Bengaluru by the party leadership here to convince the ‘missing’ MLAs to return to Bhopal and swear their loyalty to the party.

In another development, the Kamal Nath government has constituted a high-level official team to probe various omissions and commissions allegedly committed by some BJP leaders during the previous Shivraj Singh Chouhan government, authoritative sources told this newspaper here on Sunday.