A day after he was divested of the Forest and Environment portfolio, Madhya Pradesh scheduled caste welfare minister Nagar Singh Chouhan on Monday threatened to resign from his post. His portfolio has been allocated to Congress turncoat Ramniwas Rawat.
Chouhan threatened that his wife Anita Singh Chouhan would also quit as the Ratlam MP if the BJP leaders failed to respond “positively” to his concerns.
“I am going to Delhi to discuss this issue. Till then, I stand by my statement. I will decide in a day or two after talking to the party organisation. If I feel I should not stay on the post, I will resign along with my wife Anita. I can continue to serve the people of Alirajpur as the MLA,” Chouhan told The Indian Express.
Chouhan said the move to take away the forest and environment portfolio from a tribal leader like him was not in the BJP’s interest. “The forest department, which is closely associated with tribals, has been taken away and given to a leader from Congress. I don’t think this is beneficial for me or the party workers,” he said.
Chouhan first won the Alirajpur Assembly seat in 2003 on the BJP ticket. He retained the seat in the 2008 and 2013 Assembly polls.
In the 2018 polls, he lost to Congress candidate Mukesh Rawat. Following this, he was then elevated to the post of the state BJP vice-president.
The party again fielded him from his seat in the 2023 elections, in which he managed to win with a narrow margin of 3,723 votes.
Rawat, a former Congress MLA and six-time legislator from Vijaypur in the Sheopur district, joined the BJP amid the Lok Sabha polls on April 30.
He was inducted into his cabinet by Chief Minister Mohan Yadav on July 8.
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