Bisahulal Singh, one of the three ‘missing’ Congress MLAs from Madhya Pradesh, was ‘traced’ on Sunday and was on his way back to Bhopal with Tourism and Narmada Valley Development Minister Surendra Singh Baghel.
Photographs of the minister with the senior MLA from Anuppur sitting at Bengaluru Airport were circulated by the Congress on Sunday afternoon. Party spokesman Narendra Saluja said that both will reach Bhopal by evening. The MLA is likely to meet Chief Minister Kamal Nath at the CM House in the evening.
Singh, who had been incommunicado for past five days, was quoted as saying that he was with the Congress right from the beginning and will be always with the party. “My support is with Kamal Nath ji,” the MLA was quoted as saying.
Singh, along with other two Congress MLAs Hardeep Singh Dang and Raghuraj Kansana, was said to be cooped up in Bengaluru after the alleged failed attempt of the BJP to destabilise the Congress government.
Singh’s son Tejbhan had lodged a missing complaint of his father with Bhopal police on March 6, saying that he had remained unreachable and untraceable since leaving home on March 2 evening.
Hectic parleys led by Kamal Nath and ex-CM Digvijaya Singh have been on to tide over the political crisis that came to fore on March 3 midnight, after 10 MLAs of the ruling dispensation were found in a resort in Manesar of Haryana. They were allegedly taken away by the BJP in a bid to topple the 14-month-old Congress government in the state. Six MLAs were brought back to Bhopal next day but four remained untraceable.
Independent MLA Surendra Singh alias Shera came back to Bhopal on Saturday and swore allegiance with the Kamal Nath government. But he went back to Delhi in the evening and then to Mumbai on Sunday, adding to the drama, also because BJP ex-minister Narottam Mishra was found traveling in the same flight that Shera took to Bhopal on Saturday.
Shera, however, told media in Mumbai that he was in the city for personal reasons and reiterated support to the government.
Now, with another MLA ‘traced’, the Congress seems to be closing the chinks in the party.
