After Kamal Nath, Congress MP Manish Tiwari in touch with BJP, says report
2024 Lok Sabha elections, said sources as quoted by India Today. Speculation is rife that former Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath might ditch the Congress and switch to the BJP. He reached Delhi on Saturday, reportedly to meet the BJP leadership there.
Several reports claimed that the former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister could be upset with the Congress leadership. NDTV quoted sources as saying on Saturday that "Kamal Nath has conveyed his unhappiness to the Congress leadership". A close aide of Kamal Nath, Sajjan Singh Verma said when a "big politician" decides to sever ties with his organisation, then "all three factors work behind it".
He said three things work in politics — "maan, apmaan and swabhimaan (respect, insult and self-respect)". "When these factors are hurt, a person changes his decisions...When such a top politician who has done a lot for Congress and the nation in the last 45 years, thinks of moving away from his party, then all three factors work behind it," Sajjan Singh told news agency ANI. Also Read | Live updates on Kamal Nath news "A person who dedicated 45 years to Congress, if somewhere we are not able to respect that person, then it is the weakness of that political party.
That's why a person is free to take his own decision," he added. There are speculations that Kamal Nath might also be "unhappy" over not being nominated for the Rajya Sabha elections this year. However, sources told NDTV that this wasn't true.
They were quoted as saying that the former chief minister had pushed for Ashok Singh's nomination from Madhya Pradesh and did not want Meenakshi Natarajan to be nominated. Natarajan was reportedly Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's pick for the Upper House. Kamal Nath was replaced by
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