Key Takeaways
- Kamal Nath denies joining BJP, despite rumors to the contrary.
- Kamal Nath’s focus is on distributing tickets for the 29 Lok Sabha seats in Madhya Pradesh.
- Jitendra Singh confirmed that Kamal Nath told him he would not join BJP.
Amidst the speculations of senior Congress leader and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Kamal Nath, severing ties with the grand old party, and switching to the BJP instead, going rife, on Sunday, February 18, Congress General Secretary, Jitendra Singh, claimed that Kamal Nath told the Congress, when asked about the same, that he would not join the BJP.
Madhya Pradesh Congress Chief, Jitu Patwari, called the rumors of Kamal Nath joining BJP a ‘conspiracy against Nath’. He said Kamal Nath assured him he is a Congress-man and will remain one ’till his last breath’.
‘I met with Kamal Nath today and had a discussion with him. He said that his focus is entirely on how to distribute tickets for the 29 Lok Sabha seats in Madhya Pradesh, and on what the caste equation on each seat will be. He added that he had no thoughts of leaving the party, nor has he discussed it with anyone.’, stated former MP CM and Congress leader, Sajjan Singh Verma.
Earlier, senior Congress leader, Digvijay Singh, too asserted that Nath would not leave the party, and would not cave in to the ‘pressure’ asserted by the central agencies like the ED, I-T, or the CBI.
