Madhya Pradesh’s ruling BJP on Sunday suffered one other jolt within the poll-bound state as senior politician Dhruv Pratap Singh, who has been related to the social gathering since its inception, stop, accusing BJP state management of sidelining him.
Singh, who was with the BJP since 1980, in a video message, alleged that the social gathering has derailed from its actual rules.
Since final couple of months, he has been been vocal towards Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, state unit President V. D. Sharma and different state leaders.
He had contested his first election from Katni Murwara seat, nonetheless, he was defeated by the Congress. In 2003, the BJP had fielded him from Vijayraghogarh (Katni district) and he gained towards Congress candidate Satyendra Pathak.
In 2014, Pathak’s son Sanjay Pathak, who was additionally a MLA from Vijayraghogarh, joined the BJP and since since then, Singh, has been sidelined.
Then again, Pathak, who was additionally a minister in CM Chouhan’s earlier cupboard, has strengthened his place not solely in Katni district however among the many high leaders of the BJP as properly.
Pathak is taken into account near the State Dwelling Minister Narottam Mishra and the duo had performed a key position towards the Kamal Nath-led Congress authorities, which was toppled because of defection of twenty-two Jyotiraditya Scindia loyalist MLAs in March 2020.
Sources informed IANS that Singh has been contact with senior state Congress leaders and more than likely to hitch the social gathering within the subsequent couple of days throughout a go to to Bhopal.
Nonetheless, state BJP leaders have been nonetheless making an attempt to persuade him to stay with the BJP as his shifting into the Congress will influence the social gathering largely.
–IANS
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