Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh state minister Surendra Singh Baghel has reached Bengaluru to bring back ‘rebel’ Congress MLA Bisahu Lal Singh, sources said.
Bisahu Lal Singh is one of the 10 MLAs who ‘disappeared’, however, seven have already returned while Singh will be returning back on Sunday night.
Madhya Pradesh saw a huge political drama after 10 MLAs of the ruling Congress abruptly left the state.
Two MLAs, Raghuraj Singh Kansana and Hardeep Singh Dang, have still not been traced. Dang had sent his resignation to the Speaker and Chief Minister Kamal Nath.
Meanwhile, three rebel BJP MLAs met Chief Minister Kamal Nath on late Thursday as two of them have openly revolted but the third one Sanjay Tripathi has said he is not leaving the BJP.
After the turmoil, the dust is settling in Bhopal as the Congress has started ‘reverse poaching’. Now the real test will be in Rajya Sabha elections where the fight for the second seat could be a close one. As per the arithmetic, the Congress and BJP are sure to get one seat each from the state for the indirect Rajya Sabha polls. The tussle is on for the third seat for which non-BJP and non-Congress MLAs are being lured by the rival parties.
The term of senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh, BJP’s Satyanarayan Jatiya and Prabhat Jha is coming to an end and the elections are due this month. While the two rival parties are sure to get one seat each, for the third seat, the Congress needs the support of two MLAs while the BJP needs at least nine MLAs.
In the 230-member Madhya Pradesh Assembly, the Congress has 114 MLAs, followed by the BJP with 107. The simple majority mark is 115.
