In March, the 22 Scindia loyalist BJP MLAs (including six ministers) had quit from Vidhan Sabha and the Congress, consequently leading to the fall of the 15-month-old Kamal Nath government in MP.
June 10, 2020Kamal Nath had told the apex court in his petition that the governor of a state can at best call for a session but not ask for a floor test in a running assembly.
April 13, 2020The scribe's daughter, a post-graduate law course student, returned to Bhopal from London and lived with her family for two days before testing positive for Coronavirus on March 22.
March 28, 2020Outwitted in the numbers game by Scindia, who defected to the saffron camp along with 22 MLAs loyal to him, the Congress can only rue its shrinking footprint in the country.
March 22, 2020Apart from the 22 MLAs and Jyotiraditya Scindia, two key leaders in Madhya Pradesh – Narendra Tomar and Kailash Vijayvargiya were also present.
March 21, 2020A dinner was also organised at Shivraj Singh Chouhan residence on Friday which was cancelled due to the deadly virus.
March 21, 2020The resignation of 22 MLAs, including six ministers loyal to Jyotiraditya Scindia, had plunged the Congress-ruled government into crisis last week.
March 20, 2020On 16 rebel MLAs, the court said if any of them wish to be present for the voting, security should be provided.
March 19, 2020A bench headed by Justice DY Chandrachud and comprising Justice Hemant Gupta expressed its unwillingness to facilitate or create any kind of political situation which leads to horse-trading in the ongoing political crisis in Madhya Pradesh.
March 19, 2020A keen battle is on the cards in Madhya Pradesh, where the Kamal Nath government is on a sticky wicket following a rebellion by 22 MLAs, as both the BJP and the Congress have announced two candidates each for the state's three seats.
March 19, 2020On Tuesday, the court had asked the Kamal Nath government in the state to respond by Wednesday to a plea by senior BJP leader Shivraj Singh Chouhan seeking immediate floor test in the Assembly.
March 18, 2020Twenty-two MLAs of Congress have submitted their resignations pushing the 15-month-old Kamal Nath government to the brink of collapse.
March 18, 2020The 22 MLAs who rebelled also include 6 former ministers in the state and have been stating in a resort in Bengaluru's outskirts for over a week.
March 17, 2020Kamal Nath on Monday said that he had the numbers after his Congress government was asked by the Governor to prove its majority by Tuesday, hours after it got a 10-day breather with the assembly being adjourned till March 26.
March 17, 2020The speaker had adjourned the Assembly till March 26 due to novel coronavirus scare without any mention of trust vote, a move which was not anticipated by the BJP.
March 16, 2020The meeting took place inside PM's Parliament House office during which the two leaders also discussed the Rajya Sabha elections in Gujarat apart from the Madhya Pradesh political crisis.
March 16, 2020The 15-month-old Kamal Nath government, which is on the verge of collapse, got a 10-day relief as the Madhya Pradesh Assembly was today adjourned till March 26 thereby putting off the floor test scheduled for today.
March 16, 2020