“MLAs Didn’t Get 50 Votes In Their Village, How?”: Kamal Nath
Just two days after the Indian National Congress (INC) witnessed a pathetic defeat in the concluded legislative assembly elections in four of the five states, veteran Congress leader and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Kamal Nath, expressed his surprise over the votes the party candidates secured from his state. “MLAs Didn’t Get 50 Votes in their village, how is it possible?”, asked Kamal Nath after some of the former MLAs from Madhya Pradesh complained that they did not get even 50 votes from their own villages.
The Congress on Sunday faced a near-wipe out in the Hindi heartlands and signalled of the urgent need to redraw its strategies for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The grand old party succeeded in Telangana, but lost to BJP in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Chhattisgarh. In Madhya Pradesh, the BJP set a huge margin victory as the party secured 163 seats out of the 230 legislative assembly seats. The congress trailed with 66, even though the exit polls predicted an unexpected turn in favour of the grand-old-party.
Recently some party leaders accused the possibility of EVM hacking, and to that Mr Nath replied that, “it would not be right to come to a concluding without holding discussions”. “I will talk to everyone first”, he added. However, he was surprised of the defeat and explained that the public mood was in favour of Congress. Even you know what the mood was. Why are you asking me? Ask the people,” he told reporters. “Some MLAs are telling me that they did not get 50 votes in their village. How is that possible?” he said.
Earlier, Kamal Nath took to his X (formerly Twitter) handle and said that he was accepting the “decision of people of Madhya Pradesh”. He then added that the party will sit in the opposition and was ready to discharge what all responsibilities they were assigned to. According to him, the biggest question he faced after the counting was about the “future of the youth of Madhya Pradesh and the prosperity of the farmers of the state”.
चुनाव परिणाम में मध्य प्रदेश की जनता का फैसला मुझे स्वीकार है। हमें विपक्ष में बैठने की जिम्मेदारी दी गई है और हम अपनी जिम्मेदारी का निर्वहन करेंगे। मध्य प्रदेश के सामने अभी सबसे बड़ा सवाल यही है कि मध्य प्रदेश के युवाओं का भविष्य सुरक्षित हो, हमारे किसानों को खुशहाली मिले।
मैं…— Kamal Nath (@OfficeOfKNath) December 3, 2023
