Kamal Nath resigns as MP CM hours before trust vote

New Delhi : Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath on Friday noon resigned from his post, hours before the trust vote in the state parliament.

Kamal Nath accused Bharatiya Janata Party of creating the crisis in the state and said his MLAs were held hostage in Bengaluru.

"The truth will come out. People will not forgive them," said Kamal Nath.

"I proved my majority several times in the past 15 months. BJP ruled for 15 years whereas I got just 15 months. BJP conspired with a leader and 22 MLAs and they took the MLAs to Bengaluru," the Congress leader added.

"BJP feared that the way our government was running they would never be able to get to power, hence they hatched a conspiracy against the government," Kamal Nath asserted.

A special meeting of Congress Legislature Party (CLP) has been called at the Chief Minister’s residence in Bhopal ahead of the special session of Madhya assembly scheduled to start at 2 pm.

Late Thursday night, Madhya Pradesh Assembly Speaker N P Prajapati accepted the resignations of rebel Congress MLAs, reducing the majority mark in the house to 206. 

On Thursday, the Supreme Court ordered a floor test to be held in the state Assembly on Friday. A bench of the apex court, headed by Justice DY Chandrachud said the floor test would be held by show of hands in accordance with the law and it should be completed by 5 pm on Friday.