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Kamal Nath to take oath as 18th CM of Madhya Pradesh on December 17

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Bhopal | Senior Congress leader Kamal Nath will be sworn in as the 18th chief minister of Madhya Pradesh on December 17. Governor Anandiben Patel invited Nath, 72, to form the new government in the state after he met her at the Raj Bhavan here Friday to stake claim to form the government.

“As the leader of the single largest party, I appoint you as the chief minister of under Article 164 of the Constitution and invite you to form the cabinet,” she said in a letter to Nath after their meeting which lasted around 50 minutes.

Talking to reporters outside the Raj Bhavan later, Nath said the swearing-in ceremony will take place at the Lal Parade Ground in Bhopal at around 1.30 pm on December 17.

Nath, who has held several portfolios in the Union cabinet, will be the 18th chief minister of Madhya Pradesh after the state was formed on November 1, 1956.

The nine-time Lok Sabha member from Chhindwara was Thursday night elected as the leader of Congress Legislature Party (CLP).

Nath met the governor along with senior party leaders, including Digvijay Singh, Vivek Tankha, Ajay Singh, Arun Yadav, and Suresh Pachouri. They apprised her about his election as the CLP leader.

Appointed as the Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee president on April 26, Nath was at the forefront in steering the party to a win in the November 28 Assembly polls. The results were declared on December 11.

The Congress, which won 114 seats, has secured the support of 121 MLAs, including SP (1) and BSP (2) legislators and four independents, to cross the majority mark of 116 seats in the 230-member assembly.

The BJP, which ruled the state for 15 years, got 109 seats in the elections. The saffron party’s Shivraj Singh Chouhan was the state’s longest-serving chief minister since taking charge in 2005.

The Congress named Nath to head the CLP Thursday night after hours of hectic parleys held by party chief Rahul Gandhi with senior party leaders

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Srinagar | National Conference leader Omar Abdullah on Friday said that after the Supreme Court’s verdict Rafale deal issue won’t remain an election issue.

Responding to the verdict the former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister tweeted,”Can’t see how #RafaleDeal remains an election issue after this.”


The National Conference leader further raised a question whether it was right to take the Rafale issue to the apex court. He asked,” “Have to ask whether the SC was the right place to fight this battle? Some fights are best fought in the political arena.”


Taking a swipe at the BJP government over the Rafale issue, Abdullah said,” The BJP really has the devil’s luck.” However, he clarified that he is only referring the comparison as an idiom. “This Rafael Verdict couldn’t have come at a better time after the electoral set back,” he added.

The Supreme Court on Friday gave the Narendra Modi government a clean chit on the procurement of 36 Rafale fighter jets from France and dismissed all petitions seeking a direction to the CBI to register an FIR for alleged irregularities in the deal. The apex court said there was no occasion to doubt the decision-making process in the multi-billion dollar Rafale deal.

Opposition parties led by the Congress have been attacking the Modi government over the deal, alleging that it was struck at an exorbitant price and benefited an Indian businessman at the cost of the government-run Hindustan Aeronautics Limited. The charges have been denied by the government.

 

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