New Delhi: After the resignation of former chief minister Kamal Nath, efforts are on to form a new government in Madhya Pradesh. Sources said that the next government is likely to assume office by March 25. The BJP legislature party meeting which was scheduled to be held on Saturday has been postponed and this will […]
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Governor accepts Kamal Nath’s resignation
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Governor Lalji Tandon has accepted the resignation of Kamal Nath as Chief Minister; however, he has asked Nath to continue to work as acting Chief Minister till an alternative arrangement emerges. According to information from Raj Bhavan, “Chief Minister Kamal Nath submitted his resignation letter to Governor Lalji Tandon on Friday at […]
Operation Kamal trumps Kamal Nath in MP
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath announced resignation from his post, hours before the Supreme Court ordered trust vote deadline. This ended the 15-month-old Congress rule in the state. Kamal Nath’s government lost majority after the resignation of 22 MLAs, who are in support of Jyotiraditya Scindia, who recently moved to the BJP. Before […]
Kamal Nath may quit before floor test on Friday
Bhopal: With the Speaker of the Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha Narmada Prasad Prajapati accepting the resignations of the 16 legislators holed up in Bengaluru, it has become clear the Kamal Nath government will quit on Friday. In a frantic effort to pull off a near impossible win in Friday’s floor test, the Congress held three […]
SC orders floor test for Kamal Nath government on March 20
New Delhi: In a major development amid the ongoing Madhya Pradesh political crisis, the Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the floor test in the Legislative Assembly be held on Friday and the proceedings be completed before 5 p.m. The floor test will be done by show of hands, it said. A bench headed by Justice […]
Conduct floor test on Tuesday: MP Governor to Kamal Nath
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Governor Lalji Tandon on Monday asked the Kamal Nath-led Congress government for a floor test in the 230-member Assembly on Tuesday. Tandon in his letter to Nath said that as he received the letter of the Chief Minister on March 14 and that was not in accordance with parliamentary decorum. “In my […]
BJP urges SC to direct floor test in MP within 12 hours
New Delhi: Madhya Pradesh BJP filed a plea in the Supreme Court on Monday seeking an order to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly to hold a floor test within 12 hours, as per the direction issued by Governor Lalji Tondon. The petiton contended that despite the clear-cut directions issued by the Governor to Chief […]
MP Assembly adjourned till March 26 after Governor’s address
Bhopal: Amidst uproar in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly, the house was adjourned till March 26. Speaker N.P. Prajapati adjourned the house just after the governor finished his customary address. Governor Lalji in his address asked the MLAs to uphold democratic ideals. He also told the government to hold a floor test on Monday itself. Meanwhile, […]
MP Governor asks Assembly Speaker to conduct floor test on Monday
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Governor Lalji Tandon late on Saturday asked the Assembly Speaker Narmada Prasad Prajapati to conduct the floor test on Monday, days after 22 Congress MLAs resigned from pushing the Kamal Nath’s 15-month-old government on the brink of collapse. In view of the MP Assembly floor test, the Congress MLAs will depart to […]
Defiant Kamal Nath holds the fort in MP
Bhopal: A sumptuous breakfast with the Chief Minister before flying to Jaipur on Wednesday might not have lifted the spirits of the Madhya Pradesh Congress MLAs, as did the poise with which Kamal Nath defied the situation and pepped them up. Nath had told the MLAs at the CLP meeting on Tuesday night that the […]