MP crisis: Trouble for Kamal Nath govt as 17 legislators flown out of state

Given its current strength in the Assembly, the Congress can win the third seat as well. But events over the last week with several legislators becoming 'untraceable' have put a question mark on this.

Fresh trouble broke out for Kamal Nath-led Congress government in Madhya Pradesh on Monday when 17 legislators, all are believed to swear allegiance to party leader Jyotiraditya Scindia, flew out of Bhopal to Bengaluru. Scindia and the legislators, including six ministers, were incommunicado.

The Nath government has a thin majority in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly. Congress party and Madhya Pradesh government sources insisted the government was safe and the drama had all to do with the tug of war between the party’s warring camps over nominations for the Rajya Sabha elections.

Nath was in the national capital on the day and met