Bhopal: Kamal Nath quits as Congress Legislature Party leader in Madhya Pradesh on Thursday and the party high command has accepted his resignation. He is a former chief minister of Madhya Pradesh and a former union minister who is now the state party president. The decision comes in view of the party's "one person, one post" policy.
Party chief Sonia Gandhi has appointed Govind Singh as the new CLP leader. Singh is an MLA from Lahar in Bhind district. In a communication addressed to Nath on Thursday, All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary K C Venugopal said, "The Congress president has accepted your resignation from the post of Leader, Congress Legislature Party (CLP), Madhya Pradesh with immediate effect."
"The Congress president has also approved the proposal to appoint Dr Govind Singh as the leader of Congress Legislature Party, Madhya Pradesh," the statement further said. Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh are slated for 2023 and Congress has initiated changes in many state units.
It revamped its Haryana unit on Wednesday by appointing Udai Bhan, a loyalist of former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, as state unit president, besides four working presidents. Prior to that, the party restructured its Himachal Pradesh unit by appointing its Mandi Lok Sabha MP Pratibha Virbhadra Singh, wife of former chief minister Virbhadra Singh, as the new president, along with four working presidents. Nath will continue as the state unit chief of Madhya Pradesh.
