I am always with BJP, asserts MLA Sharad Kol
   Date :27-Nov-2019

 BJP MLA Sharad Kol
 
Staff Reporter :
 
Kol had voted in favour of the Criminal Law (Madhya Pradesh Amendment) Bill 2019 tabled in Assembly by Congress Government 
 
MLA from Beohari constituency, Sharad Kol, who had voted in favour of Congress-led State Government in the Assembly a few months back during Monsoon Session, speaking in front of media on Tuesday said that he professes faith in his saffron party and whoever says him rebel doesn’t matter him. Earlier on Tuesday afternoon, Kol reached the bungalow of State Sports Minister Jitu Patwari to meet him after which he interacted with media and clarified his stand and said that he never left his party. After meeting Jitu Patwari, MLA Sharad Kol said that he had come to discuss with the Minister of Sports and Higher Education regarding a college in his constituency.
 
It doesn’t matter what anyone thinks about him now. The MLA is from the BJP itself. When Sharad Kol met the Sports Minister, BJP spokesperson Rajneesh Agrawal said that such meetings are a normal process. When there was a BJP government in the State, then Congress MLAs also used to come to meet the ministers regarding work in their constituency. Notably, in the Monsoon Session of the Assembly, two BJP MLAs, Tripathi, MLA from Maihar, and BJP MLA Sharad Kol from Beohari had broken ranks with the party and voted in favour of the Criminal Law (Madhya Pradesh Amendment) Bill 2019 tabled in the Assembly by the Kamal Nath government. After this, both of them had a fierce rage on former Chief Minister Shivraj Singh and the BJP government in a press conference with Chief Minister Kamal Nath.
 
However, last month MLA Narayan Tripathi, speaking in front of media in the presence of BJP State President Rakesh Singh at the office, said that he was and would continue to be with the BJP. Narayan Tripathi had said in the Monsoon Session of the Vidhan Sabha that he was with the Congress government that it had happened to him accidentally. Narayan Tripathi, along with the Chief Minister in the Assembly, retracted from the media about what he had said against Shivraj Singh Chouhan.