Will Kamal Nath resign as MP Congress chief?

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 163 seats and Congress came in second with 66 seats in Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections.

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Congress party chief for Madhya Pradesh, Kamal Nath is likely to meet Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday in Delhi and is likely to file his resignation as Madhya Pradesh Congress chief, as per sources. The news has surfaced two days after the party's debacle in the assembly election.

The report also claimed that the Congress high command is upset over Kamal Nath not meeting party leaders and workers, but meeting chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Monday, a day after the embarrassing defeat.

Apart from this, while the Samajwadi Party was asking for only four to six seats, the JD(U) only one seat in Madhya Pradesh, to which Nath did not agree and peeved the leaders of the opposition INDIA bloc, formed to take on the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

Earlier on Sunday, addressing a press conference during the final stage of counting, Nath said, "We accept the mandate of Madhya Pradesh's voters in this democratic contest. We will fulfil the role of the Opposition."

The results for Madhya Pradesh assembly election were announced on Sunday with the BJP winning 163 (two-thirds majority) of the state's 230 seats, which is more than double the Congress tally of 66.

Meanwhile, on Tuesday, the Congress President will hold a meeting at Leader of Opposition (LoP) chamber at around 10 AM.