The BJP on December 6 decided that all 12 of its MPs who have been elected as MLAs in the recently concluded Assembly polls in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh will quit their parliamentary membership, including Union Ministers Narendra Singh Tomar and Prahlad Singh Patel.
BJP president J.P. Nadda accompanied 10 of the MPs, including Rajya Sabha MP Kirodi Lal Meena, as they tendered their resignations from Parliament. Two more MPs, Union Minister Renuka Singh and Mahant Balaknath, will also quit, party leaders said. “It has been decided that all would be quitting and taking their place in State Assemblies,” said a senior source in the party.
The BJP has not yet taken any steps to declare Chief Ministers for the three Hindi heartland States which it won handsomely in last month’s polls. Against that backdrop, the decision that all MPs-turned-MLAs will quit Parliament has given rise to speculation that the party leadership may bring in new faces at the helm in all the three States.
