New Delhi: Striking a balancing act and in a bid to contain factionalism, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday appointed senior party leader Kamal Nath as president of its Madhya Pradesh unit and Jyotiraditya Scindia as campaign committee chief ahead of the state Assembly elections expected later this year. The party has decided to go into the polls without a CM face.
Another potential aspirant for the top post and former chief minister Digvijaya Singh told a television channel that he had “opted out” of the race. In a “please all” arrangement, both Mr Nath and Mr Scindia were given positions in the state unit while Mr Digvijaya Singh remains a general secretary of the party.
Interestingly, Mr Scindia had been named campaign committee chief ahead of the 2013 Assembly polls as well. Insiders claim Mr Scindia was being considered as state unit chief for a long time but in the end it was nine-term Lok Sabha MP Kamal Nath who made the cut.
