Updated: December 17, 2020 5:39:50 pm
BJP National Secretary General Kailash Vijayvargiya (Photo / Express File)
BJP Secretary General Kailash Vijayvargiya said Prime Minister Narendra Modi played a “major role” in bringing down the congressional government led by Kamal Nath in Madhya Pradesh. Vijayvargiya was speaking in a Kisan Samelan (farmers meeting) held in Indore of Madhya Pradesh, from where he has been elected MLA six times.
Addressing the crowd, Vijayvargiya said: “Ye parde ke peeche ki baat kar raha ho aap kisi ko batana mat. Mein ne aaj tak kisi ko nahi bataiye, pehli baar is manch par bata raha hu. Kamal Nath ji ki sarkaar girane mein yadi kisi ki mehatvapoorna bhoomika thi, toh Narendra Modi ji ki thi, Dharmendra Pradhan ji ki nahi thi (I’m telling you something I’ve never said before. You don’t tell anyone. If anyone played a major role in the downfall of Kamal Nath’s government, it was Prime Minister Narendra Modi and not Dharmendra Pradhan.) “
Prime Minister Modi played a key role in the overthrow of Kamal Nath’s government: Kailash Vijayvargiya pic.twitter.com/9rJ7wxHJgV
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While welcoming State Interior Minister Narottam Mishra on stage, Vijayvargiya added: “The only worker who came in Kamal Nath’s dream was Narottam Mishra.”
Farmer meetings were held to raise awareness of the three core agricultural laws in five different districts of Gwalior, Sagar, Rewa, Jabapur and Indore in the state. In Gwalior, it was led by the Union Minister of Agriculture, Narendra Singh Tomar, and the BJP leader, Jyotiraditya Scindia; in Sagar, by the Minister of the Union, Prahlad Patel; and in Rewa and Jabalpur by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and BJP State President VD Sharma.
Vijayvargiya was accompanied at the Indore meeting by Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.
However, Narottam Mishra later told the media that Vijayvargiya was speaking in a lighter vein and that his comments should be taken as humor only.
In March, the 15-month congressional government fell after 22 MLAs, led by Scindia, defected from Congress to the BJP.
Since then, Congress has repeatedly argued that these MLAs were bought by the BJP to overthrow its government unconstitutionally. The party had campaigned for the recent by-elections using the slogan “the Bikao government against Tikao”.
Congressional spokesperson Narendra Saluja reacted to the statement saying: “Vijayvargiya himself has confirmed the congressional accusations that his government was overthrown by Prime Minister Narendra Modi by unconstitutional means.”
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