MP crisis: Amit Shah meets BJP leaders after Jyotiraditya Scindia flies out MLAs to Bengaluru
New Delhi/IBNS: Hours after Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia moved six ministers and 11 MLAs of the party to Bengaluru in a special chartered flight deepening the crisis for the Kamal Nath led-government in Madhya Pradesh, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday late evening chaired a meeting with BJP leaders in Delhi, media reports said.
Jyotiraditya Scindia, once close to the Gandhis, is in Delhi, NDTV quoting sources said.
According to reports, the Congress is desperately trying to negotiate a compromise with Scindia, who seems to have severed his ties with the party.
Chief Minister Kamal Nath met with Congress MLAs and senior leaders like Digvijaya Singh too.
The MLAs who were moved are Rajvardhan Singh, Pradhuman Singh Tomar, Bankim Silawat, Giriraj, Ms Raksha, Jaswant Jatav, Suresh Dhakad, Jaipal Singh, Brijendra Yadav and Purushottam Parashar, a close aide of Jyotiraditya Scindia.
The MLAs were escorted to their respective destinations by Karnataka Police, reports said.
Notably, Karnataka is a BJP-ruled state and the city of Bangalore has emerged as a new destination for rebel Congress MLAs before they switch sides.
Congress has 114 MLAs out of 230 in Madhya Pradesh assembly. The BJP has 106 MLAs while SP and BSP have two and four MLAs respectively.
If the 17 MLAs resign, Congress will lose governance in Madhya Pradesh too after Karnataka.
On March 26, the Congress had accused the BJP of poaching four of its MLAs. While two MLAs, reportedly, returned, the other two are still missing, reports said.
The crisis in the Madhya Pradesh politics started when youth leader Jyotiraditya Scindia lost his prospect of bagging the chief ministership to senior leader Kamal Nath in Dec 2018.
Despite playing a key role in Madhya Pradesh Assembly election he could not muster the support of enough MLAs for the CM's position.
Then Congress chief Rahul Gandhi managed the situation by naming Scindia general secretary in charge of Uttar Pradesh for last year's national election, along with his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
However, Scindia barely campaigned in the state and the party performed poorly in the politically crucial state of Uttar Pradesh.
Scindia himself lost the election for the first time in his constituency Guna in Madhya Pradesh since 2002.
Since then, Madhya Pradesh witnessed a three-way split within the party as Kamal Nath, Jyotiraditya Scindia and former Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh had their visible differences.
In Nov last, Scindia hinted of dropping from the party by changing his Twitter bio's reference to the Congress party and calling himself a "public servant and cricket enthusiast."
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