Jyotiraditya Scindia should be Congress’ CM candidate in Madhya Pradesh: Kamal Nath

Guna: Veteran Congress leader Kamal Nath on Wednesday said he is in favour of projecting Jyotiraditya Scindia, the party’s chief whip in the Lok Sabha, as the chief ministerial face for the Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh next year.

Nath’s statement is significant as many state Congress leaders have been demanding projection of a chief ministerial face.

Asked persistently by reporters at Guna Airstrip – in Scindia’s presence – who should be Congress’s chief ministerial face, Nath said, “As I had said earlier, you must have read it in newspapers as well, Scindia should be made (party’s candidate for the post).

“Apart from political relations, there have been family relations between us (he and Scindia). I do not have any problem with whatever Rahul Gandhi decides….I do not have any ambition as far as the post is concerned. We are already working, visiting districts and will continue to do so,” he said.

Nath reached Guna on Wednesday morning on his way to Mungawali, where a condolence meeting was organised to pay tribute to late party leader and former minister Mahendra Singh Kalukheda, who passed away recently.

The Congress is out of power in the state since losing to the BJP in 2003.