Kamal Nath will lead Congress in 2023 MP meeting elections, says Digvijay Singh

Madhya Pradesh is gearing up for meeting elections, scheduled to happen later this yr. On February 19, a senior Congressman and a member of Rajya Sabha, Digvijaya Singh said that Kamal Nath would signify the occasion within the elections. “We will fight the elections in MP under the leadership of State Congress chief Kamal Nath. So, he will be the CM face,” he mentioned whereas addressing the media.

Digvijaya Singh was requested about Congress’ CM face when he was attending a celebration assembly in Rehti within the Sehore district of Madhya Pradesh.

Kamal Nath, an in depth affiliate of Congress supremo Sonia Gandhi, has been a controversial determine in Indian politics since his position within the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

In a five-hour siege on November 1, 1984, two Sikh males had been burned alive on the Rakab Ganj Gurudwara, which is positioned throughout the road from Parliament House. The gurudwara’s construction was additionally broken by the mob.

It was broadly reported that, Nath was “controlling the crowd, and that the mob was looking to him for directions.” Harvinder Singh Phoolka and Manoj Mitta’s ebook ‘When a Tree Shook Delhi’ explicitly paperwork Nath’s involvement within the riots.

His participation has been confirmed by quite a few eyewitness accounts, together with these of journalists who had been overlaying the riots. Their testimonies are with the Nanavati Commission.

Despite the allegations in opposition to him, Kamal Nath continued to carry important occasion positions and was inducted into the Union Council of Ministers a number of occasions, when Congress-led governments had been within the centre. He was additionally appointed Madhya Pradesh’s 18th chief minister, and served as Leader of the Opposition within the state’s Legislative Assembly from March 2020 to April 2022, after the autumn of his authorities.

Sikh political figures have incessantly raised the difficulty of his complicity within the riots. Bhartiya Janta Party chief, Manjinder Sirsa who was then in The Shiromani Akali Dal, attacked Nath, saying, “Congress has rubbed salt in the wounds of Sikhs,” after then Congress president Rahul Gandhi cleared Nath’s identify because the CM of Madhya Pradesh in 2018. He referred to as Nath’s choice for the CM submit “shameful.”

Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga, a pacesetter of the Delhi BJP, protested the choice by happening an indefinite starvation strike in Delhi’s Tailak Vihar space, which is residence to many victims’ households from the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

The 15-month-old Congress authorities in Madhya Pradesh fell in 2020, as all 22 MLAs who supported Jyotiraditya Scindia, who had stop the occasion earlier, resigned. Kamal Nath who was the CM, resigned forward of a belief vote ordered by the Supreme Court, as he fell in need of numbers.

The pogrom in opposition to the Sikh neighborhood was reportedly initiated by the Congress Party, after the assassination of the then-prime minister Mrs Indira Gandhi by her two Sikh bodyguards. Rajiv Gandhi, who was made the PM after the demise of his mom, had justified the carnage, saying, “When a big tree falls, the earth shakes,” in a public assembly held within the reminiscence of the late prime minister.

Sam Pitroda, the top of the Indian Overseas Congress in 2019, mocked the riot victims in 2019, by dismissing the atrocity and remarking, “Hua to hua (riots happened in 1984, so what)”. He finally issued an apology.

Congress had launched a press assertion, attacking BJP and claiming that the occasion has “shown the moral and political courage to punish people and leaders accused of violence/role in 1984.”

In actuality, the political occasion has rewarded the leaders like Kamal Nath, Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar with profitable occasion posts and election tickets.