Bhopal: While Congress party’s nominee Digvijay Singh filed his nomination for Rajya Sabha polls, the BJP on Thursday nominated its second candidate for Rajya Sabha polls, Prof Sumer Singh Solanki, a tribal intellectual. The BJP had on Wednesday nominated senior leader Jyotiraditya Scindia as its first candidate in Rajya Sabha elections.
The BJP on Thursday opted for Prof Sumer Singh Solanki, an RSS man, who is active in tribal belt of Madhya Pradesh for years besides working as Assistant Professor at a government college in Barwani, one of the tribal dominated districts of the region. Prof Solanki is also nephew of former BJP MP Makhan Singh Solanki.
The locals in Malwa-Nimar region, a tribal land, are of the view that Prof Solanki’s elevation in the party is a well-planned tactic from the BJP who was concerned with the emergence of Jai Adivasi Yuva Shakti, a tribal outfit with deep connect with the local population.
JAYS had collaborated with Congress party during assembly polls in 2018 which presumably handed the grand old party tactical gains in the tribal home land.
Prof Solanki by his own admission had been active for years in tribal-dominated districts including Dhar, Jhabua, Alirajpur, Barwani, Khargone and others against ‘the campaign being run by non-nationalists’ forces’.
Prof Solanki was penetrating tribal areas in coordination with RSS affiliate organisations including Vidya Bharti, Vanvasi Kalyan Parishad and others.
Meanwhile, the Congress party presently in all sorts of trouble is yet indecisive over the choice of third candidate for RS polls.
Since 22 of its MLAs have submitted resignation from the State assembly, the Congress party has little idea about the strategy to win the third seat. Amid the uncertainty, assembly speaker NP Prajapati has issued notices to 19 MLAs who had submitted resignations through BJP leaders couple of days ago.
The speaker wants these MLAs to be present in front of him personally. However, bolstered by the rebellion of Jyotiraditya Scindia camp, the BJP has turned on the offensive seeking a floor test on March 16, the inaugural day of the assembly session.
Leaders including Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Bhupendra Singh and Narottam Mishra on Thursday demanded that this government has slipped into minority and should prove majority on the floor of assembly on March 16. The minority government has no right to present budget or hold governor’s speech, they claimed.
