Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Nakul Nath mentioned Thursday that he would personally welcome Rahul Gandhi’s outreach yatra when it entered the state on 2 March, thereby scotching the excitement that the Chhindwara MP and his father — former state chief minister Kamal Nath — might swap to the BJP.
Nath instructed ThePrint that he would stroll with Gandhi as soon as his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra steps into Madhya Pradesh by means of Morena. His father has already participated — albeit just about — in a preparatory assembly for the yatra’s Madhya Pradesh leg.
In the meantime, the state BJP has mentioned that just about 1,500 Congress employees joined the social gathering Wednesday within the presence of Chief Minister Mohan Yadav throughout a programme in Chhindwara.
Among the many distinguished names to change over from Kamal Nath’s bastion had been state unit secretary Ujjwal Singh Chouhan alias Ajju Thakur, his brother Praveen Singh Chouhan and chairman of Pandhurna municipality Sandeep Dhaturiya, together with a number of councillors and sarpanches.
Nevertheless, Congress refuted the numbers, saying a bit over 70 social gathering employees had gone to the BJP and these had been largely followers of Ujjwal Singh Chouhan.
Pandhurna is without doubt one of the seven meeting segments within the Chhindwara constituency. It’s also the one seat amongst MP’s 29 constituencies which is with the Congress. Kamal Nath has been elected from right here 9 instances, and its present MP is his son.
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‘Chhindwara will vote for Modi’
At Wednesday’s rally, Chief Minister Mohan Yadav exuded confidence that the individuals of Chhindwara would vote for the prime minister within the coming Lok Sabha elections. He additionally inaugurated initiatives price Rs 178.26 crore for the world, and of Rs 761 crore for close by Balaghat.
He instructed the those who he would make all efforts for the event of Chhindwara “much like how Prime Minister Narendra Modi had left no stone unturned for the development of the country”.
Sending a cryptic message to the Congress, Yadav mentioned: “People who have not come now will soon join the BJP.”
In the meantime, Nakul Nath complained on social media platform X that work on an area medical faculty was nonetheless incomplete because the BJP had stopped funds. He wrote that this had disadvantaged “thousands of people from getting necessary medical treatment”.
Nath additionally referred to a scarcity of services at Chhindwara College, and harm suffered by farmers from hailstorms.
(Edited by Tikli Basu)
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