"BJP Will Decide How Many Seats They Want To Lose In 2023 Elections”; Congress Leader Kamal Nath (Image: Twitter/OfficeOfKNath)
A day after the Election Commission of India announced the scheduled dates of assembly elections in the five Indian states, Madhya Pradesh former Chief Minister and Congress in-charge of the state Kamal Nath made a public comment and scorned BJP. As he said, the ruling party at the centre, under the incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will themselves decide the number of seats they want to lose in the upcoming elections.
Kamal Nath, while addressing the media on Monday said that the BJP’s defeat is “inevitable” in Madhya Pradesh as the voters of the state have recognised the party’s real face. He equated the saffron party as a machine of ‘’lies’’, and claimed that it is going to be shut soon.
VIDEO | “BJP should decide by how many (seats) it wants to lose the elections. Their defeat is inevitable; voters of Madhya Pradesh have recognised them,” says MP Congress chief Kamal Nath, day after EC announces schedule for MP Assembly polls. pic.twitter.com/Q0NtyK2UM3
— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) October 10, 2023
“The people of Madhya Pradesh will bid farewell to Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who made the state a “choupat state” in the last 18 years. BJP and Shivraj Singh Chouhan have also realised this. He has nothing to say”, Mr Nath added.
#WATCH | Former Madhya Pradesh CM and Congress State President Kamal Nath says “Time has come when the machine of lies and announcements is going to be shut. The people of Madhya Pradesh will bid farewell to Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who made MP a “choupat state” in the last 18… pic.twitter.com/bbT9YN7Z5C
— ANI (@ANI) October 10, 2023
The 76-year-old veteran Congress leader served the Chief Minister position of Madhya Pradesh, which is a BJP adept locus, for approximately 15 months after Congress emerged as the single largest party with 114 seats among the 230 constituencies in the 2018 elections. The party wasn’t able to win at least one assembly election in the state after 2003, while BJP secured three consecutive terms.
Kamal Nath held the cabinet, but witnessed a political overturn in 2020 which facilitated BJP’s Shivraj Chouhan to overrule the position after 22 Congress MLA’s resigned along with Jyotiraditya Scindia resulting the collapse of Kamal Nath government.
Assembly election dates to the five states – Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Rajasthan, Telangana, and Mizoram – are announced on Monday. Madhya Pradesh will go to booths on November 17, 2023. Counting is scheduled on December 3, 2023, and the election will be conducted in a single phase in all the 230 assembly constituencies of the state.
