In a giant transfer, 10 of 12 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs, who gained the State Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan resigned from their Membership of the Parliament on Wednesday.
The growth got here after a get together assembly chaired by BJP chief JP Nadda and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
These MPs are Narendra Singh Tomar, Prahlad Singh Patel, Rakesh Singh, Uday Pratap and Riti Pathak – from Madhya Pradesh; Arun Sao and Gomati Sai – from Chhattisgarh and Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, and Kirodi Lal Meena from Rajasthan. Tomar and Patel additionally resigned from the Union Cabinet. Kirodi Lal Meena is the one Rajya Sabha MP who stepped down.
Two other MPs, Union minister Renuka Singh and Mahant Balaknath, will even be resigning from the Lok Sabha, sources mentioned.
The transfer is a part of the get together management’s strategy of electing new chief ministers in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan. Other MPs who stop included Diya Kumari, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore and Rakesh Singh.
The BJP swept Madhya Pradesh and wrested Rajasthan, and Chhattisgarh from Congress on inflicting a convincing defeat on the grand previous get together to tighten its stranglehold within the Hindi heartland.
The unprecedented victory within the Hindi heartland area additionally boosted the BJP’s prospects within the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.