So, Scindia finally says 'Ram Ram' to Congress! Know what irked him to quit INC after 18 years!

New Delhi,March 10: Congress's Jyotiraditya Scindia along with 19 MLAs on Tuesday resigned from the party after the disgruntled leader and former MP from Guna in Madhya Pradesh met the top two of leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party's Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi.

 

Earlier in the month of November 2019, Scindia had left the INC jawstruck, when 20 Congress MLAs of the state close to Scindia had gone missing and unreachable for two complete days. After consistently being sidelined from the internal affairs of the Congress in Madhya Pradesh, Scindia had also shed off his party name and changed his Twitter bio to a 'public servant and cricket enthusiast', fueling fresh speculations over the political tensions brewing within the party.

 

He while making the change, had consciously avoided establishing his links with the Congress, giving no indication that he was either a part of the party or the Madhya Pradesh government which is led by Kamal Nath. Scindia was seen as a front runner for the post of PCC chief but due to a lack of consensus, the party eventually put the appointment on the back burner. His stature as a leader was dented considerably after the Congress registered a shocking defeat in the Lok Sabha elections earlier this year setting a chain of events that culminated into Rahul Gandhi’s resignation as the party president, leaving young guns like Scindia lost and clueless.

 

 

 

In a surprise move, all 20 Cabinet ministers in the Madhya Pradesh government had tendered their resignations to Chief Minister Kamal Nath at around 11:30 pm Monday, plunging the state's Congress government into a political uncertainty. The CM accepted their resignations and was likely to reconstitute the Cabinet today.

 

Earlier in the day, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi met current president Sonia Gandhi to discuss the political crisis in Madhya Pradesh after several MLAs close to Scindia flew to Bengaluru and went incommunicado. A legislative party meeting of the Congress is taking place in Bhopal. A few days ago, it had been alleged that the BJP, the principal Opposition in the state, was holding at least eight Madhya Pradesh MLAs against their will at a resort in Gurugram and in Bengaluru.

 

In the 2018 Assembly election, the Congress, which had won 114 seats in the 230-member House, had formed the government with support from four Independent MLAs and two BSP MLAs, and a legislator from the Samajwadi Party (SP). The BJP had secured 109 seats in the state Assembly.