Madhya Pradesh: BJP in MP Hits A Lull After Land Row Involving CM Erupts
Senior party leaders in the state have chosen to keep mum on the issue, leaving it to the chief minister to come clean on the matter: Reports
BHOPAL: The ruling BJP in Madhya Pradesh has virtually hit a lull after the row over the land acquisition by chief minister Mohan Yadav and his family erupted over a week ago.
Senior party leaders in the state have chosen to keep mum on the issue, leaving it to the chief minister to come clean on the matter.
Even the state BJP president Hemant Khandelwal has refrained from reacting to repeated the move by the Opposition Congress to raise the issue by demanding judicial probe by a sitting judge of the supreme court into it, barring issuing a recorded statement once denying the charges of corruption and conflict of interests in the acquisition of lands by the chief minister and his family.
“Please, don’t drag me into the matter”, has been the constant refrain of several senior BJP leaders when their reaction was sought on the issue.
A statement by the chief minister’s office (CMO), rebutting the charges of the Congress point-by-point, followed a similar clarification from the state party president.
Barring the clarifications by state party president and the CMO, the party has hit a lull on the matter, refusing to join the issue with the Congress further on the issue.
Some ministers in the Mohan Yadav government have even preferred to parry the questions from the scribes on the matter, treating it like ‘a hot potato’.
“The chief minister has given the clarification, point-by-point. We don’t think there is anything more to say on it”, a senior minister in the Mohan Yadav cabinet said, requesting not to be quoted.
“The strategy, adopted for the time being, is to bury the issue by ignoring it despite provocations by the Congress. Let the state leadership as well as the Central leadership decide how to deal with it”, a senior BJP functionary said.
The Congress while quoting a media report alleged that the chief minister and his family members as well as his relatives’ acquired lands in Ujjain city, Mr. Yadav’s home town, by misusing his official position.
Mr. Yadav has however said that neither he nor his family members-son and daughter-in-law- has acquired any land after he became chief minister in December 2023, whereas his wife has added a very insignificant amount of land during the period.
