Congress president Sonia Gandhi deputed senior leaders Ambika Soni and Anand Sharma to talk to Gehlot
Senior Congress leader Kamal Nath said that he doesn't want to become the party President and wants to continue to work for the party in Madhya Pradesh
The Congress high command has summoned senior leader Kamal Nath to Delhi and he is likely to meet party chief Sonia Gandhi on Monday, sources said. The visit of Kamal Nath, the Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee chief, to Delhi comes amid a political drama in Rajasthan over leadership change following Ashok Gehlot's announcement that he would contest the AICC president polls. Kamal Nath is known to have close ties with the Rajasthan chief minister and could be asked to broker a truce, sources said. While legislators loyal to Gehlot have been vocal about their issues, MLAs in the Sachin Pilot camp refrained from commenting. MLAs loyal to Gehlot have said they have put forth demands before the observers that any decision on the chief ministerial face should be taken after the party president election on October 19 and in consultation with Gehlot. AICC observers Mallikarjun Kharge and Rajasthan in-charge Ajay Maken, who had waited in vain for all legislators to arrive for the Congress
He further said that the Congress would need support of people to "save the democracy"
Amid the Madhya Pradesh local body elections, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that when Kamal Nath was the Chief Minister, he used to threaten police and administration
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A meeting of the Congress Legislature Party is scheduled to be held in the presence of All India Congress Committees (AICC) observer Kamal Nath amid the deepening political crisis in Maharashtra
Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath said the old pension scheme for government employees will be brought back if his party is elected to power in the state in the 2023 Assembly polls.
Currently, Congress leaders like Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Randeep Singh Surjewala and Mukul Wasnik hold more than one charge
This comes after communal clashes erupted during a Ram Navami procession wherein people were injured due to stone-pelting
On November 19, 2015, when Chouhan completed ten years in office, he became the first non-Congress chief minister of the state to do so
In Madhya Pradesh, the Congress lacks charismatic second-generation leaders
Nath on Monday met his party president Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi, with insiders stating here that the agenda included "revitalizing" workers and cadre for the 2023 Assembly polls
Nath's fitness challenge comes in the wake of Chouhan, 62, repeatedly targetting him over his age and health, saying that he was resting in Delhi.
Banerjee is slated to meet Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday evening.
Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath termed the alleged snooping by the Israeli spyware Pegasus as the "biggest attack on the privacy" of people and demanded a probe into it
BJP leaders in Indore demanded that the city police register a sedition case against former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and Congress leader Kamal Nath over his remarks about the Covid pandemic
Former Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal Nath accused the state government of under-reporting Covid-related deaths and claimed that over one lakh people had died from the infection across the state.
Nath made the statement while addressing 'Kisan Khat Mahapanchayat' in Morena district, the Lok Sabha constituency of Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar
It avoids real political issues, refuses to go into details, hides more than it tells, and is therefore a big let-down