Political temperature in the State continued to soar high on Tuesday. Graph of rumours also grabbing lime light. Even as many bigwigs from BJP are in Delhi as the party after the thumping victory in the State, the talks of next Chief Minister are making rounds in the State capital. In this race, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s name is ahead of other claimants. Although Chouhan has said that he “was never in CM’s race”. As a large section of the State party believes that Chouhan may remain the Chief Minister at least till the next Lok Sabha polls, which may be less than six months away, others believe that the 166 seats won by the party- 47 more than the 116 needed for a majority.

 

This may give the party’s central leadership to think otherwise since the party didn’t project any CM’s face in elections. The other names doing the rounds are Union ministers Prahlad Singh Patel and Jyotiraditya Scindia, BJP National General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya and Union Minister Narendra Singh Tomar. On Tuesday, State BJP President V D Sharma met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Delhi. During his tour to the national capital, the State BJP chief also made a visit to party President J P Nadda and senior leader Piyush Goyal at his office in Delhi.

On the other hand, the Pradesh Congress Committee has held a meeting of party candidates in the elections at Bhopal office. It was addressed by PCC chief Kamal Nath. In this meeting, both the candidates who have won the elections and lost have participated. According to highly placed sources it was a review meeting. There are reports that Kamal Nath is likely to meet Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge soon and may tender his resignation as Madhya Pradesh Congress chief, two days after the party’s debacle in the Assembly election. Notably, the election was fought under the leadership of Kamal Nath and former Chief Minister Digvijay Singh has also played a crucial role in these elections. The BJP has made a stunning comeback winning 163 seats in the 230-members House.