2024-06-08 00:03:49
Bhopal: Six months after the meeting ballot debacle, the Congress suffered one other jolt in Madhya Pradesh as all of the Lok Sabha seats went to the BJP. Occasion stalwarts within the state, together with former chief ministers Digvijaya Singh and Kamal Nath, did not retain their seats.
That is the primary time within the political historical past of MP that Congress doesn’t have a single MP within the Lok Sabha and BJP candidates have received all 29 constituencies. Within the November 2023 meeting elections, Congress was assured of forming the federal government and Kamal Nath returning as CM. However when the outcomes got here, the BJP bought an enormous majority with 163 out of 230 seats and Congress bought solely 66 seats. The outcomes of the meeting elections shattered the hopes of the Congress brigade which was eagerly ready to return to energy for the reason that defeat of the then Digvijay Singh regime in 2003.
Nath’s transient 15-month authorities in December 2018 marked the start of the get together’s turnaround, however Jyotiraditya Scindia resigned together with 22 sitting MLAs and the federal government collapsed. Congress leaders and troopers have been disheartened when the BJP returned to energy. The get together eliminated Kamal Nath as state Congress president and appointed Jitu Patwari, 27 years youthful, in his place. Occasion sources mentioned Rahul Gandhi wished the subsequent era to take over to make a recent begin. The sudden appointment of Jitu Patwari couldn’t assuage the dismay that had been created.
Former state Youth Congress president and minister within the Kamal Nath authorities, Jitu Patwari, did not deal with the fast decline and defection within the group. Between January 1 and March 9, 5800 senior officers and public representatives, together with former Union Minister Suresh Pachauri, former MPs, MLAs, district presidents and entrance group officers, left the get together together with 1000’s of supporters and staff and joined the BJP.
On April 7, the MP BJP formally claimed that over 2.58 lakh new members had joined the get together. The BJP claimed that almost all of them had come from the Congress. Because the Lok Sabha elections approached, three sitting MLAs resigned, together with Kamleshwar Shah from Amarwara, Ram Niwas Rawat from Vijaypur and Nirmala from Bina. The Congress had misplaced 27 of its 29 seats in 2014 and 28 of its 29 seats in 2019. Patwari was appointed quickly after the meeting ballot debacle on December 16 final 12 months. The mannequin code of conduct for the Lok Sabha elections got here into drive in lower than three months. A senior PCC spokesperson mentioned the AICC wouldn’t make any organisational modifications at current.