Senior Congress leader and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath arrived in the national capital Saturday afternoon amid speculation that he could cross over to the BJP.
Over the past few days, Nath had been on a tour of his bastion Chhindwara, from where he had been an MP for nine terms. His son Nakul Nath won the seat in the 2019 polls, even as the BJP swept the remaining 28 seats in the state.
Asked about the speculation that Nath could cross over to the BJP, senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh said in Jabalpur earlier in the day, “I spoke to Kamal Nath at 10.30 pm yesterday, he is in Chhindwara.”
“A person who started his political journey and stood with the Nehru-Gandhi family when Indira Gandhi was sent to jail by the Janata party, do you think such a person will ever leave Congress and the Gandhi family?” Singh said.
Kamal Nath is said to be disgruntled over not getting a Rajya Sabha berth and also Rahul Gandhi being opposed to him since the party lost the assembly polls late last year.
Meanwhile a day after Madhya Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party chief VD Sharma claimed that several Congress leaders were upset with the grand old party, former CM Kamal Nath’s son Nakul Nath dropped Congress from his bio on social media sparking speculation about his next move.
The move by Nakul Nath, who is the Congress’ Lok Sabha member from Chhindwara in MP, has added fuel to rumours of him and father Kamal Nath joining the BJP, according to an NDTV report.
On Former MP CM and Congress leader Kamal Nath, Madhya Pradesh Congress president Jitu Patwari told ANI , “…He has always stood with the ideology of Congress…Indira Gandhi used to consider him as her third son. For the past 7 years, he has been working as MP Congress chief, all the party workers have worked hard to make him the CM…Kamal Nath is not like Scindia. Kamal Nath is a Congress leader by ideology. He will never change his party for positions…even such a thought that he will leave, is wrong”
