New Delhi: The BJP’s landslide victory within the Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections is a significant setback for 2 veteran Congress leaders and former Chief Ministers Kamal Nath and Digvijaya Singh. Both these leaders had actively led the marketing campaign – Kamal Nath from the entrance, whereas Digvijaya Singh led the cadre from backstage.
The Congress had misplaced Madhya Pradesh to the BJP in 2003, after two phrases of Digvijaya Singh, and had managed to come back again into energy after a niche of 15 years in 2018. Despite being two-three seats in need of a majority, it had managed to kind a authorities, headed by Kamal Nath. (Also Read: Rajasthan CM Gehlot To Hand Over Resignation To Governor Sunday Evening: Sources)
However, the defection of Jyotiraditya Scindia and his loyalist MLAs led to the Congress authorities’s fall and the BJP got here again into energy once more in March 2020. (Also Read: ‘Kaun Banega Mukhya Mantri?’ Names Of Raje, Diya, Shekhawat & Baba Balaknath Trending)
After this setback in 2020, these two senior Congress politicians had energised the shattered occasion cadre once more by profitable the mayoral election final 12 months, and so they have been assured to win the meeting election too, however their hopes have been dashed, spelling a digital finish to their lengthy political profession.
By the following Assembly election, each these Congress veterans will probably be above 80 years outdated. This huge defeat may also decrease the boldness of the Congress staff on the bottom, who fought exhausting towards the BJP’s multi-layer cadres in Madhya Pradesh.
For the final couple of years, the Congress state unit has witnessed large adjustments, particularly on the grassroots degree and this was the rationale, it had excessive expectations of profitable this election.
It was additionally the primary time Kamal Nath witnessed such an enormous defeat in his lengthy political profession. During the ballot marketing campaign, he was typically heard saying: “I’ve contested a number of elections in 40 years of my political profession and I’ve received all of them.”
In the 2019 Lok Sabha election, the BJP received 28 out of 29 seats in Madhya Pradesh, however Kamal Nath managed to win Chhindwara for his son Nakul Nath regardless of the sturdy wave of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
