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New Delhi: After winning the assembly, 10 BJP MPs submitted their resignations to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Wednesday (December 5). The MPs who resigned include Chhattisgarh’s Gomti Sai, Madhya Pradesh’s Narendra Singh Tomar, Rakesh Singh, Prahlad Patel, Riti Pathak and Uday Pratap Singh. Apart from this, Rajasthan MPs Diya Kumari, Rajyavardhan Rathore have also resigned.
BJP national president JP Nadda along with nine MPs reached the Lok Sabha Speaker’s office. While the tenth MP Kirori Lal Meena submitted his resignation to the Rajya Sabha Speaker. The MPs submitted their resignation after calling on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and JP Nadda.
Amongst those who met the Speaker were Narendra Tomar, Prahlad Patel, Riti Pathak, Rakesh Singh, Uday Pratap Singh from Madhya Pradesh. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Diya Kumari, Kirori Lal Meena (Rajya Sabha MP) from Rajasthan; and Arun Sao and Gomti Sai from Chhattisgarh.
While Narendra Singh Tomar held the agriculture ministry, After resigning from his MP post, BJP leader Prahlad Patel, who won the Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections from Narsingpur constituency, said, “After meeting BJP president JP Nadda, I have resigned as Lok Sabha MP. Soon, I will also resign from the Cabinet.”
The remaining two, Lok Sabha MP from Rajasthan, Baba Balaknath and Union Minister of State for tribal affairs Renuka Singh, who could not reach New Delhi today, will resign later. The BJP is set to form the government in Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh after the party crossed the majority mark in all three states, crushing the Congress.
However, the grand old party emerged as the victor in Telangana after dealing a lethal blow to K Chandrashekar Rao’s Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS). The chief ministers of Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Telangana have handed over their resignation letters to their respective governors.
The move is part of the party high command’s process of electing new chief ministers in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan.The assembly elections in these states were billed as the semi-final ahead of next year’s Lok Sabha poll.
