The ruling BJP and the main Opposition Congress in Madhya Pradesh have drawn daggers and leaders from both sides are gunning for each other after the Monsoon Session of the state Assembly was adjourned abruptly on Thursday by the Speaker without allowing a debate on a no-confidence motion against chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and his government.
On Friday, Congress legislators, led by Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly Ajay Singh, organised a mock Assembly session in the open right in front of the state Congress headquarters here. Addressing the mock Assembly, Mr Singh said there was a conspiracy to prevent them from levelling charges against the state government in the Assembly. The CM was determined to stop them from bringing into focus his family members, he said and named the chief minister’s wife and other family members and accused them of amassing wealth through wrongful means. Reacting strongly to Mr Singh’s charges against his family, the CM has threatened to take the matter to court.
It is unfortunate that their no-confidence motion was rejected without allowing a discussion, Mr Singh said, adding this was despite the fact that it was included in the listed business of the day and had already been introduced while the House was in session. Merely because one MLA (Chaudhary Rakesh Singh Chaturvedi) raised objections, the motion was summarily rejected. This has never happened before in parliamentary history, he added. While the Congress legislators’ mock Assembly was in session, national BJP vice-president Prabhat Jha and state BJP chief Narendra Singh Tomar jointly addressed a press conference at the state party headquarters here to welcome Parasram Mudgal, BSP MLA from Morena, and inform the press that he has joined the BJP.