BHOPAL: Congress-ruled Madhya Pradesh will have a high voltage political Holi, as disgruntled senior party leader Jyotiraditya Scindia reached PM’s residence in Delhi on Tuesday morning to meet Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah.
The development comes a day after the Kamal Nath-led state government plunged into a deep crisis, as seventeen of its MLAs, allegedly close to Scindia suddenly became ‘incommunicado’ on Monday ahead of the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections.
Ten hours after ex-CM Digvijaya Singh said that Scindia was suffering from Swine Flu, all eyes are set on Scindia now.
Scindia, one of the most powerful Congress leaders in the central Indian state, is likely to make a major political announcement on Tuesday, on his father Madhav Rao Scindia’s birth anniversary.
Though his actual program for the day is not yet out, there is a strong possibility of him travelling to native Gwalior for his father’s grand celebrations, where he could make major announcement amid speculations of him joining BJP.
Scindia has three options, either staying with Congress, form a new party like his father did in the 1990s or pull down the Congress government and later joins the BJP like his grandmother Vijay Raje Scindia did in the late 1960s.
Hinting towards its possibility, senior BJP MLA Narottam Mishra said on Tuesday morning, “Scindiaji is a big leader, he will be welcomed, if he decides to come with us,” said Mishra.
Mishra and ex-CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan reached Bhopal from Delhi early on Tuesday.
They will attend the all-important BJP legislature party meeting in the evening, where the BJP will ensure to keep its flock of 107 MLAs intact.
All 114 ruling Congress MLAs too have been summoned to Bhopal for the evening legislature party meeting even as 17 Scindia loyalist MLAs including six ministers remain untraceable somewhere in Bengaluru.
Late on Monday tonight, 20 ministers had submitted their resignations to CM Kamal Nath and requested him to reconstitute the 28-strong cabinet for addressing concerns of disgruntled MLAs to keep BJP out of power.
Now, it also remains to be seen how the CM acts against the untraceable six Scindia loyalist ministers, who haven’t resigned.