On Wednesday, Congress legislators at their meeting passed a one-line resolution authorising the party president to decide on who will be the Madhya Pradesh CM, party spokesperson Shobha Ozha told the press.
On Wednesday, Congress legislators at their meeting passed a one-line resolution authorising the party president to decide on who will be the Madhya Pradesh CM, party spokesperson Shobha Ozha told the press.
The showdown is between Jyotiraditya Scindia and Kamal Nath in Madhya Pradesh.
Sources have told DNA that Rahul Gandhi to name CMs in the three states in the next hour. Earlier, Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia on Wednesday credited victory in the Assembly polls in three states to party chief Rahul Gandhi, saying it was he who brought the Congress back in the reckoning.
The Congress on Tuesday wrested back power from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh.
Speaking at the India Economic Conclave organised by Times Network here through video conference, Scindia accused the BJP of destroying the "institutional framework".
"People in India are concerned about their lives, their livelihood and development. They are concerned about an atmosphere of peace and security and an environment of tolerance," the Guna MP said.
The BJP presented an antithesis of "these factors" which was rejected by voters, he said.
"This is clearly Rahul Gandhi's election. He has brought the Congress back onto the board of India," he said.
About the BJP targeting Rahul Gandhi during the campaign, Scindia said the saffron party had different tenets under Atal Bihari Vajpayee's leadership.
"We have always believed in grace and simplicity and humility and we continue to follow the tenets which are very close to our heart....these tenets were the hallmark of the BJP during the rule of Vajpayee government," he said.
In the last five years, the BJP has "completely lost" these principles, Scindia alleged.
"Let's hope they get some of that back, we will certainly not move away from the way we behave," he added.
Asked about the coming Lok Sabha elections, Scindia claimed that the BJP will be routed in most of the country "because the people have seen through their game".
The Congress, on the other hand, needs to work hard to meet people's aspirations in the next three months ahead of the general elections, he said.
"The BJP in the last five years has destroyed the institutional framework that we had built assiduously over the last 70 years, whether it be the RBI or CBI or be it the temples of democracy or educational institutions... even Parliament and judiciary," Scindia said.
Restoration of these institutions was extremely important and the Congress was committed to it, he said.
The Congress has the support of 121 MLAs in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly, party spokesperson Narendra Saluja claimed Wednesday.
The Congress won 114 seats in the state polls, but was two short of the simple majority mark of 116 in the 230-member Assembly.
"With the support of BSP's two, SP's one and four independent candidates, the Congress' tally is 121 in the 230-member Madhya Pradesh Assembly," Saluja told reporters at the Raj Bhawan after Congress leaders met Governor Anandiben Patel.
Senior Congress leaders, including Kamal Nath, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Digvijay Singh, Arun Yadav and Vivek Tankha, met the governor to stake claim to form the government in the state.
"The Congress has emerged as the single largest party with majority support. The BSP, the SP and Independents have assured their support in favour of the Congress," Nath, the state Congress chief, said in a letter to the governor.
He further requested the governor in the letter to call the Congress to form government in the state.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which ruled the state for 15 years, got 109 seats in the elections.
However, it edged ahead of the Congress in the vote share by a slender margin, bagging 41 per cent of the total votes polled, while the Congress got 40.9 per cent.
BJP's Shivraj Singh Chouhan was the state's longest serving chief minister since 2005.
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