Congress MP Sonia Gandhi at Parliament House complicated, in New Delhi.
| Photo Credit: PTI
Madhya Pradesh Congress president Jitu Patwari mentioned on Monday that the celebration’s State unit had requested celebration chief Sonia Gandhi to go to the Rajya Sabha from the State.
Speaking to reporters on the MPCC headquarters in Bhopal, Mr. Patwari mentioned the State unit, in a letter on Sunday, had appealed to Ms. Gandhi that if she chooses to go to the Rajya Sabha, she ought to symbolize Madhya Pradesh.
“Entire PCC and all our MLAs have expressed this wish. If a person who has sacrificed the post of Prime Minister goes to the Rajya Sabha from Madhya Pradesh, it will be an honour for us,” he mentioned, including that varied different State items of the Congress had additionally made the identical enchantment.
Also learn: Trinamool names Sagarika Ghose, Sushmita Dev, and two others for Rajya Sabha
Mr. Patwari’s remarks come at a time when speculations are rife that varied Madhya Pradesh Congress leaders, together with former Chief Minister Kamal Nath, have been pushing for a seat in the Upper House of the Parliament.
A State Congress insider mentioned the letter from the MPCC is “more of a response to the pressure being mounted by Mr. Nath on the high command.”
“Many leaders want the Rajya Sabha seat no matter how much they deny it in the public. The chances of Sonia ji representing Madhya Pradesh are very dime but if she does, nobody will be able to object it,” the chief mentioned.
Five seats from M.P.
As many as 56 seats of the Rajya Sabha, including five from Madhya Pradesh, will go to polls on February 27. While the BJP is probably going to comfortably win 4 seats from the State, the Congress has numbers to ship one member.
Mr. Patwari additionally mentioned that a number of of his celebration leaders have been served notices by the Income Tax Department summoning them to Delhi forward of the Lok Sabha polls.
He alleged that the notices to varied MLAs, former ministers and Congress leaders are issued below stress from the BJP-led Central authorities. “Instead of calling them to the local offices of the I-T department, they have been summoned directly to Delhi,” the Congress chief mentioned.
Various Congress leaders, together with MLA and State president of the Youth Congress Vikrant Bhuria, and celebration chief Devashish Jarariya, claimed that they obtained I-T notices on Sunday night, asking them to seem earlier than the division in Delhi.
Mr. Patwari additionally accused the ruling celebration of troubling small Congress leaders by varied instances.
“In the notice and summons issued by the Income Tax Department, no documents were asked from anybody. Only one line order has been given in which former Congress ministers, present and former MLAs have been asked to appear in the Income Tax Department office in Delhi,” he mentioned, including that the leaders who’ve jumped over from the Congress to the BJP haven’t obtained any such discover.
In the previous two weeks, a number of Congress leaders have converted to the BJP. On Monday, the Congress’s Vidisha district unit chief Rakesh Katare, together with varied different native leaders, joined the BJP.