{"id":506077,"date":"2024-03-22T17:14:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T11:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=506077"},"modified":"2024-04-16T18:17:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T12:47:58","slug":"kamal-nath-bjp-congress-madhya-pradesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/politics\/kamal-nath-bjp-congress-madhya-pradesh\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP\u2019s Kamal Nath plan continues to unfold, his acolytes keep ditching the Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Neeraj Mishra<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Kamal Nath had been denied entry into the BJP, we had confidently bared a secret game plan assigned to him by the BJP. It involved Nath staying back in the Congress and damaging it from inside in lieu of later rewards. The plan continues to unfold as Kamal Nath supporters have been joining the BJP in droves. The latest to desert is the most damaging so far, Deepak Saxena, who has been a Kamal Nath acolyte for four decades. Saxena was also a minister under Digvijaya Singh in both his terms as chief minister in the 1990s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kamal Nath&#8217;s BJP entry has been denied temporarily as the Sikh farmers are agitating on the highways heading to Delhi. Nath\u2019s name is soiled in the anti-Sikh riots case of 1984. Another reason was that the BJP could not find any position \u201cworthy\u201d\u00a0 of his stature. It is expected he will be inducted into the party after the Lok Sabha victory and given a good ministry.\u00a0We had even reported that a Gujarat businessman was behind the BJP-Nath arrangements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saxena resigned from all his positions within the party and he and his son Ajay are likely to join the BJP after Holi. Saxena and Sajjan Singh Verma alongwith former Speaker NP Prajapati are seen as the closest associates of Nath. The ground team has already been sent to the BJP by Nath as most Congress corporators from Chhindwara have joined the BJP. It all points towards a sinister plot where Nakul Nath may eventually emerge as the BJP candidate after the official candidate withdraws making his victory a foregone conclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nakul Nath is presently the Congress candidate and is likely to slip into BJP at the last moment. Such things have happened before in Madhya Pradesh. Bhagirath Prasad, a former IAS officer considered close to Digvijaya Singh, had been given the Congress ticket from Bhind in 2014. He also got the BJP ticket from the same constituency and junked the Congress ticket to win handsomely. Nakul is expected to do the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saxena\u2019s exit is actually Kamal Nath\u2019s style of functioning. He first sends out his team out on the field to create an atmosphere and welcome him when he lands. The same is happening now. His entire team which was managed by Saxena is now in the BJP and they will take care of his welcome in the party as and when it happens. The existing Chhindwara BJP unit will automatically get replaced by the Nath gang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the rush of Congressmen at the BJP gates is so heavy that the BJP has even formed a welcome committee called New Joining Committee under former Home Minister Narottam Mishra. Another former Digvijaya minister Yadvendra Singh also joined the\u00a0 BJP weakening the Congress in Vindhya region as he took with him 13 other local heavyweights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Congress MLA Narayan Tripathi, who had recently formed the Vindhya Janata Dal, will now contest the Satna seat from the BSP.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deepak Saxena is the latest to desert the Congress and the most damaging so far. 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