Kamal Nath’s ‘strike the street then’ remark at Scindia resulted in our exit: Ex-Congress MLAs

BHOPAL: Congress leader Kamal Nath’s remark that Jyotiraditya Scindia ‘can strike the streets if he wants to’ rankled with the MLAs who were loyal to the latter and caused their exit from the party, some of them stated on Wednesday.

Scindia, a previous Union minister, and 22 MLAs who supported him quit the celebration previously this month and signed up with the BJP, resulting in collapse of the Nath-led government in Madhya Pradesh.

” The sidelining of our leader for the last 15 months and the (then) chief ministers statement “let him require to the streets then” was the trigger that led to never-before exodus by lawmakers including six cabinet ministers,” said Tulsiram Silawat, one of the ministers who resign