Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and senior Congress chief Kamal Nath on Wednesday instructed get together staff that he was “ready to leave” in the event that they wished to “bid him farewell”, and asserted he wouldn’t “impose” himself on them.
Addressing a gathering of the get together staff at Harrai on his house turf Chhindwara, the 77-year-old chief stated he had been receiving their love and belief for a few years.
“Kamal Nath ko agar aap vida karna chahte hain, yeh to aapki marzi hain. Mein vida hone ke liye taiyyar hoon. Mein apne aap ko thopna nahi chahta (If you want to bid farewell to Kamal Nath, it’s your choice. I am ready to leave. I don’t want to impose myself),” he stated.
Kamal Nath made the remarks a day after he dismissed speculations of switching to the BJP, a transfer that allayed Congress’s fears after being on the tenterhooks for the previous a number of days.
In the course of the rally in Harrai, Kamal Nath stated his son, Nakul Nath, will once more contest from the Chhindwara Lok Sabha constituency.
Nakul Nath, the sitting MP from Chhindwara Lok Sabha seat, is the only real Congress parliamentarian from Madhya Pradesh.
Kamal Nath, who represents the Chhindwara meeting seat, stated the BJP initiatives itself aggressively, however Congress staff shouldn’t panic. “We have to vote for securing the future and I have trust in all of you,” he added.
Amid hypothesis that he would possibly be part of the BJP, the veteran politician on Tuesday dismissed them as a “media creation”.
“You (media) are making such speculations and nobody else is saying so. Have you ever heard from me? You run the news and ask me. You should refute this news,” Nath instructed reporters on Tuesday.
Earlier this month, the hypothesis surrounding Kamal Nath’s doable change intensified after his former media advisor and BJP spokesperson Narendra Saluja posted a photograph of the previous Chief Minister and his son in Bhopal and captioned it, “Jai Shri Ram.”
Nakul Nath had even eliminated ‘Congress’ from his profile bio on X, additional fuelling the hypothesis.
The Madhya Pradesh Congress burdened the decades-old ties between Kamal Nath and dismissed the hypothesis that he might cross over to the BJP.
The veteran chief was changed because the get together’s Madhya Pradesh unit chief following its rout in final 12 months’s meeting polls, through which the BJP retained energy, profitable 163 seats within the 230-member Home. The Congress managed to win simply 66 seats.
(with inputs from PTI)