Just a day after the exit poll results were announced, predicting a sweeping win of the BJP, Madhya Pradesh’s (MP) leader of opposition from the BJP, Gopal Bhargava, has written to the Governor, Anandiben Patel, stating that the Kamal Nath-led Congress government has lost majority in the state assembly.
As reported in the NDTV, Bhargava has written to Patel, requesting to call for an emergency session of the state assembly, a day after exit polls predicted a thumping victory for the BJP in the Lok Sabha elections. An aggregate of exit polls has also predicted that the BJP will win 24 of the 29 Lok Sabha seats in Madhya Pradesh.
“We are sending a letter to the Governor requesting an assembly session as there are a lot of issues… It (the Madhya Pradesh government) will fall on its own. I don’t believe in horse-trading but I feel its time has come and it will have to go soon,” Bhargava said.
Kamal Nath’s party has a wafer-thin majority in the state. In the 2018 assembly elections, Congress won 114 of the 230 seats and formed the government with the support of two BSP candidates and one SP candidate.
Chief Minister Kamal Nath has hit back at the BJP leaders seeking his government’s dismissal with the advice to wait till the Lok Sabha poll results are out. “Wait till May 23. We have seen so many exit polls going horribly wrong in the past. Don’t be impatient,” Kamal Nath was reported saying.