Madhya Pradesh Congress president and former Chief Minister Kamal Nath on Tuesday said that the party’s face for the 2018 Assembly election depended on acceptance by the public.
“You [the media] and I have heard the statements of the party leaders. Where do you find restlessness in them? In the end, it will be the face that the public will accept,” said Mr. Nath at a press conference in Mandsaur. He was responding to a question on the recent exchange of words between two party senior leaders.
Earlier, Leader of Opposition in the MP Assembly Govind Singh had said that the Congress was a democratic party and it was not its tradition to announce the Chief Ministerial candidate in advance. The public would elect the MLAs, who would then choose the Chief Minister. In response, party MLA Sajjan Singh Verma said that the leaders wanted Mr. Nath as the State’s Chief Minister, adding that Mr. Singh should behave in the manner in which he expected others to do with him.
