Team News Riveting
Bhopal, September 6
Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is well aware of the fact that all is not well with the state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
And this propelled him to touch the emotional cord; preaching the importance of governance and the glamour associated as long as the party is in power. Singh was addressing party’s Members of Parliament and legislative assembly.
The meeting was convened in physical presence at the party’s state headquarters to discuss the ensuing assembly by-election in 27 constituencies. The mid-term poll was necessitated following a split in Congress legislature party led by Jyotiraditya Scindia.
“The glamour and authority (of the party workers and leaders) will last till we are in government,” visibly upset Singh said. The result of the by-election should be cent-percent and BJP had to win all the 27 assembly constituencies (that will go to the polls in November), he added.
The inputs that the chief minister had been getting from different quarters had disturbed him. For, the difference between Scindia supporters and the BJP’s grass-root leaders had started spilling out in open especially in the Chambal region.
The leaders who had been politically up-in-arms against each other for decades were finding it uncomfortable to share the dais. A few leaders even made it public that they could seek votes for a Scindia supporter whom they had been opposing as Congress leader for the last three decades.
Many senior BJP leaders in the region had expressed their reluctance to take up any assignment related to the by-election. Union minister Narendra Singh Tomar and BJP state president Vishnu Dutt Sharma had talked to many senior leaders individually but the exercise went in vain.
The Madhya Pradesh chief minister could now realise; to take on Congress, he needed to first keep his house in order.
