Truth has won, says Scindia as Nath slams BJP
NEWDELHI: Soon after Kamal Nath resigned as the Madhya Pradesh chief minister on Friday, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jyotiraditya Scindia termed the move as the victory of the people of the state.
“People have won today in Madhya Pradesh. I have always believed that politics should be the medium of public service, but the state government had deviated from this path. Truth has won again. Satyameva Jayate,” Jyotiraditya Scindia tweeted.
The Kamal Nath government’s problems began last week after 22 MLAS resigned from the assembly in the wake of former Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia ending his 18-year association with the Congress and joining the BJP. Before the crisis, the Congress had 114 MLAS, and enjoyed the support of four independent legislators, two MLAS of the Bahujan Samaj Party and one legislator of the Samajwadi Party. The BJP has 107 MLAS.
Nath quit as the chief minister, hours before the Supreme Courtordered floor test deadline, as his government stared at a certain defeat in the Assembly after the Speaker accepted the resignation of all 22 rebel MLAS.
Addressing a press conference to announce his resignation, Nath accused the BJP of engineering the political crisis in the state. “The truth will come out. People will not forgive them,” he said during a press conference.
“In my 40-year-long public life, I have always done politics of purity and valued democratic norms and given priority to it. But what transpired in the last two weeks is a new chapter of devaluation of democratic values,” Nath said in his resignation letter.
The BJP said it had nothing to do with the political developments saying it was a fallout of the factionalism in the Congress.
Senior BJP leader Shivraj Singh Chouhan responded to the decision, claiming that his party was not in the game to form or topple the state government and asked the Congress to do self-introspection to analyse what gave rise to such a situation.
“If a government falls due to their own internal conflict then we can’t do anything. You can see that we were not in the game to form or topple a government. They (Congress) should do some self-introspection as to what gave rise to such a situation,” Chouhan told media reporters here.