Strong Buzz: Congress Heavyweight Kamal Nath & Son May Defect To BJP

Bhopal: Congress may be in for a big jolt ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.

Veteran Kamal Nath, former chief minister and the grand old party’s one-time strongman of Madhya Pradesh, may be headed for the saffron party.

Dissent was in the air since Nath was removed as the state’s party chief following Congress’ heavy defeat at the hands of BJP in Assembly polls in November-December.

The buzz got stronger as MP’s BJP chief VD Sharma claimed there were some Congress leaders upset with the party’s decisions. On Saturday, Kamal Nath’s son Nakul dropped Congress from his bio on social media.

With Nath senior in New Delhi, speculations have reached fever pitch about a possible shift in allegiance.

Kamal Nath neither denied nor accepted such a possibility.

“It is not about denying, you are saying this, you people are getting excited. I am not getting excited, this side or that side, but if there would be any such thing, I would inform you first,” Kamal Nath told reporters in Delhi.

Several Congress leaders, including former MLA Dinesh Ahirwar and Vidisha district president Rakesh Katare, have already joined BJP earlier this week.

Adding salt to Congress’ wounds, BJP state president Sharma said that his party’s doors are open for other senior Congress leaders who are not happy for their party having rejected invitation for last month’s ‘Pran Pratishtha’ ceremony of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya.