Amid war for post of Madhya Pradesh Congress leader, Jyotiraditya Scindia to meet Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi

Amid infighting inside the Madhya Pradesh Congress and jostling for the country unit leader's post, senior leader Jyotiraditya Scindia is scheduled to satisfy party president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday in New Delhi.

The improvement comes at a time whilst there are symptoms in political circles here that Scindia (47) is eyeing the post of Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) president, a role presently held with the aid of Chief Minister Kamal Nath who needs his guy for the top organisational activity. Some of his supporters in the Gwalior-Chambal area have taken to the streets, annoying their chief be appointed the MPCC leader failing which they threatened to quit the birthday celebration which came to power within the kingdom simply 9 months in the past.

 Amid conflict for put up of Madhya Pradesh Congress leader, Jyotiraditya Scindia to meet Sonia Gandhi in New DelhiFile picture of Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia. AFP

One of them, Anand Agrawal, even tried to immolate himself, near Gwalior station last week, demanding the previous Guna MP receive rate of the Congress within the kingdom, wherein the party is in electricity with a wafer-skinny majority.

Scindia, who misplaced the race for leader ministership to Nath final year, is scheduled to satisfy Gandhi on Tuesday in New Delhi, barely three days after the CM called on her inside the national capital in connection with the infighting within the nation unit, a senior Congress leader told PTI on Monday.

Gandhi, in a bid to end the feud, has referred the problem of Forest minister Umang Singhar, who had remaining week launched a no-holds-barred attack on celebration veteran Digvijay Singh, calling him a "blackmailer" who became strolling a proxy authorities, to the valuable disciplinary committee, he delivered.

The panel, headed via senior leader and former Union minister AK Antony, is in all likelihood to submit his document to Gandhi via subsequent week, he stated.

The Congress leader's pass to refer the problem to the disciplinary committee came after Nath called on her on Saturday, an afternoon after widespread secretary in-price of MP Dipak Babaria surpassed over his record over the infighting to her, party assets said.

Singhar, a tribal leader believed to be close to the Scindia camp, attacked Digvijay Singh after



failing in his try and turn out to be the kingdom party president, they said. However, Nath and former chief minister Singh, each 72, do not want Scindia to turn out to be the MPCC chief, the assets said. Jaivardhan Singh (33), the son of Digvijay Singh, who is also a Rajya Sabha member, is a Madhya Pradesh Cabinet minister.

BJP leaders, which includes Nath's predecessor Shivraj Singh Chouhan, have dubbed Digvijay Singh as "the remarkable leader minister". However, Jaivardhan Singh says Nath changed into the simplest strength centre in Madhya Pradesh and his father turned into not meddling within the country government's affairs. An MP minister stated Digvijay Singh, too, changed into inside the race to come to be the MPCC leader, a put up held with the aid of him inside the beyond.

However, the veteran leader has vehemently denied that he wants to emerge as the celebration's state head. Another minister said the tussle between Singhar and Digvijay Singh was a fallout of infighting taking place over the kingdom celebration chiefs post between extraordinary camps.

Nath wants to see his loyalist, Home Minister and tribal chief Bala Bachchan, because the MPCC president, the sources delivered.

Nath had resigned from the MPCC president's put up after the Congress's debacle in the Lok Sabha polls, however he has been requested to retain till his replacement is finalised. "Our leader has greater than two dozen MLAs, including ministers, in his camp, a loyalist of Scindia advised PTI. "Our leader performed a important function within the Congress' win in (2018 assembly polls) MP, but neglected the risk of turning into chief minister, he said.

"No, Scindia has no longer given any ultimatum that he'll quit if now not made the celebration-kingdom chief, Congress spokesman Pankaj Chaturvedi said when contacted amid hypothesis of the previous Guna MP's next political flow. "Scindiaji is a committed Congressman, he delivered. Scindia, who lost election from the Guna Lok Sabha seat, had tried to clear the air closing week in Gwalior, pronouncing Gandhi could take a name on the new MPCC leader and her nominee might be proper to all.

With 114 MLAs within the 230-member meeting, the Congress is two brief of a simple majority. Itis holding on to electricity with the assist of one SP, 2 BSP and four Independent MLAs. The opposition BJP has 108 MLAs.