BJP activist celebrate after Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath resigned from his post, at state party headquarters in Bhopal
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BJP leaders Shivraj Singh Chouhan, VD Sharma, Gopal Bhargava and others celebrate after Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath resigned from his post, at state party headquarters...
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BJP National Vice President Shivraj Singh Chouhan and leader of the opposition in the State Assembly Gopal Bhargava with party MLAs celebrate after Chief Minister Kamal Nath resign...
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Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath addresses the media at CM house in Bhopal. Nath announced that he would submit his resignation to Governor Lalji Tandon.
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Congress party workers stage a protest against the detainment of senior party leader Digvijay Singh and other MLAs in Bengaluru, in Bhopal.
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Congress leader Digvijayay Singh along with Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) President DK Shivakumar after a meeting with state police commissioner Bhaskar Rao (unseen),...
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Congress leader Digvijay Singh speaks on phone as he leaves in a car from the DGP office after a meeting, in Bengaluru.
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BJP National Vice President Shivraj Singh Chouhan with party state president VD Sharma and others comes out after meeting with Madhya Pradesh Governor Lalji Tandon, at Raj Bhavan i...
Congress star campaigner Sachin Pilot refuses to speak against BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia, says everyone free to decide which party they want to be in.
Shivraj Singh Chouhan rejected reports that have hinted possible increase in coronavirus cases due to migrants and asked, 'Did corona not spread at places where migrants were not there?'
Narottam Mishra, Kamal Patel, Meena Singh, Govind Rajput and Tulsi Silavat took oath as ministers, but no member of the cabinet was assigned a portfolio.
Despite the health pandemic, the state has no health minister or ministers for other key portfolios like finance, home or food and public distribution - all key departments to manage the immediate fallout of the health crisis.
Governor Lalji Tandon had summoned all Raj Bhavan staff to begin preparations for a small ceremony. BJP workers were told not to throng to the Raj Bhavan.
With the Speaker now accepting the resignations of all 22 MLAs, the strength of the Congress in the 230-member Assembly, which was 114 earlier, has now reduced to 92.
The numbers are stacked heavily against the Congress government which teetered to a brink of collapse after the resignations of the 22 rebel MLAs stated to be supporters of Jyotiraditya Scindia, who quit the Congress to join BJP.