Veteran BJP leader joins Congress in Chhattisgarh, Kamal Nath calls it trailer

Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) Chief Kamal Nath has taken a jibe at the BJP after a senior party leader, Nand Kumar Sai, joined the Congress in Chhattisgarh.

He went on to say that it was just a trailer. Today people and veteran party leaders are dejected, and it is bound to take place, Nath said while talking to media persons on Monday. When a question was asked of him about whether any BJP leader was in touch with him in Madhya Pradesh, he replied, “I am not worried about the leaders, I need the grassroots workers.”

The Congress leader hit out at Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan over the distribution of compensation amounts to farmers for crop damage due to untimely rains and hailstorms in the state.

“CM Chouhan should stop speaking and start giving compensation to the farmers,” the former CM added.

Notably, former Rajya Sabha MP and veteran tribal leader Sai joined the Congress Party on Monday in the presence of Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, Congress state president Mohan Markam, and the Chhattisgarh PCC office in Raipur.

Sai quit the BJP on Sunday. In his resignation letter, Sai said that he resigned from the primary membership and all posts of the BJP. He further said that his image was being tarnished and that there were conspiracies against him in the BJP.

Sai, a prominent tribal face in the BJP, held several key positions. He served as the former chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes. He was the Chhattisgarh BJP chief between 2003- 2005.