After MP poll debacle Kamal Nath asked to resign as state Congress chief, says sources

After the debacle in the recently concluded Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, the Congress high command has asked senior leader Kamal Nath to tender his resignation from the post of state party chief, sources said.

This comes a day after the Congress was routed in the state with the party just managing to get 66 seats in 230-member Legislative Assembly. Kamal Nath bore the brunt of this loss as the party had gone to polls under his leadership. He was



declared as the chief ministerial candidate by the Congress party. 

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) registered a massive victory and garnered 166 seats. However, Kamal Nath managed to maintain his several decade-old stranglehold on Chhindwara as he won the seat by 36,594 votes. He defeated BJP leader Vivek Bunty Sahu. In the 2018 polls, Nath's victory margin against Sahu was 25,837 votes. Since 1980, Nath has won the Chhindwara Lok Sabha seat a record nine times.