Madhya Pradesh bypolls | Jyotiraditya Scindia meets Sachin Pilot in Gwalior
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Mr. Pilot arrived in Madhya Pradesh for a two-day go to to marketing campaign for Congress candidates in Gwalior, Shivpuri, Bhind and Morena districts of the State.
BJP MP Jyotiraditya Scindia on Tuesday mentioned he met his former colleague and senior Congress chief Sachin Pilot in Gwalior and that he’s welcome to the State to marketing campaign for the November 3 by-elections.
Mr. Pilot arrived in Madhya Pradesh for a two-day go to on Tuesday morning to marketing campaign for Congress candidates in Gwalior, Shivpuri, Bhind and Morena districts of the State.
“I met him in Gwalior and welcomed him,” Mr. Scindia, who give up the Congress in March and joined the BJP, advised PTI. “Madhya Pradesh has the tradition of welcoming everyone on its soil, therefore he [Pilot] is also welcome here,” mentioned Mr. Scindia, the scion of the erstwhile Gwalior royal household.
Asked whether or not his [Pilot’s] presence will make any distinction in the bypolls, Mr. Scindia mentioned in a democracy everybody has the suitable to marketing campaign. By-elections to twenty-eight Assembly seats in the State are scheduled on November 3. Twenty-five of those seats fell vacant after sitting Congress MLAs resigned and joined the BJP, resulting in the collapse of the Kamal Nath-led State government.
Most of those insurgent Congress MLAs had been thought-about near Mr. Scindia. Besides, three seats fell vacant as a result of demise of their sitting MLAs.
To a query on his assembly with Mr. Pilot earlier than the political disaster in Rajasthan a couple of months again, Mr. Scindia mentioned he doesn’t wish to touch upon the interior affairs of the Congress.
In July, Mr. Pilot and 18 different MLAs rebelled in opposition to the Ashok Gehlot-led Congress authorities in Rajasthan, resulting in Mr. Pilot’s sacking as Deputy Chief Minister and State celebration chief.
Following his patch-up talks with senior Congress leaders, the political disaster was resolved after practically a month.
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