Daijiworld Media Network - Bhopal (SR)

Bhopal, Jul 9: The ongoing political crisis in Karnataka is giving sleepless nights to the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath, who has reportedly asked his party MLA's and supporting legislators to prepare themselves for a floor test, should the BJP demand so.

As reported in Hindustan times, there is speculation that the BJP wants to topple the congress government and will demand for a floor test after the monsoon session of the assembly begins on Monday. BJP had demanded in May that the Kamal Nath government prove its majority on the floor of the House. 

The Chief Minister, at a meeting of MLAs, said, “It is mandatory for all the Congress MLAs and other MLAs supporting the government to remain present in the assembly during the monsoon session. The opposition can come up with any demand and we should be ready for the floor test to pass the budget.”

“The MLAs should keep their beliefs in the more than 130-year- old Congress party intact. BJP leaders will try to lure our members but we shouldn’t fall prey. We don’t need to be afraid of BJP’s design and false claim.” the CM added. 

The Congress party has 114 MLAs in the assembly and has support of six other legislators, one each from the SP and the BSP and four independents in the 230-member House. The opposition BJP has 108 MLAs. 

The BJP on its part has claimed that the Madhya Pradesh government will collapse on its own. Leader of Opposition (LoP) Gopal Bhargava, on Monday said, "the Congress government will fall on its own. Before Lok Sabha elections, when the government assumed power, public thought Congress would fulfill all the promises made to them, but the Congress failed. This resulted into an insulting defeat of the grand old party in the Lok Sabha elections. BJP will not topple the MP government but, the fate of Congress like in Karnataka could not be ruled out."

Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad was reportedly present in Bhopal on Sunday and held a meeting with Congress MLAs urging them to stay away from the BJP ‘tactics’. Off late, the Congress party, as it continues to fight for its relevance and existence at the national level, is struggling to hold on to power in the states it had recently formed coalition governments in.