Kamal Nath Stakes Claim to Form Government in MP

Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath met Governor Anandiben Patel on Wednesday and staked his party’s claim to form the next government in the state. “We have staked claim,” he told reporters after the meeting at Raj Bhavan. Asked who would be the Chief Minister, Kamal Nath shot back: “I don’t know.”

Late on Tuesday, Kamal Nath wrote to the Governor urging her to give him an appointment so that he could stake claim as the Congress had emerged as the single largest party in the Assembly with “majority support”. The Congress won 114 seats, two short of a majority in the 230-member house.

After the meeting with the Governor, Lok Sabha member and Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia said “of course it would be a privilege” when he was asked whether he would like to be the Chief Minister. He said the Congress, which has won 114 seats, has the legislative majority with the backing of all four Independents and three MLAs of BSP and SP. Scindia, one of the contenders for chief ministership, also attacked outgoing Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. (IANS)

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