{"id":321245,"date":"2020-03-20T08:16:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T08:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=321245"},"modified":"2020-03-20T08:17:55","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T08:17:55","slug":"madhya-pradesh-kamal-nath-resigns-as-cm-ahead-of-trust-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/madhya-pradesh-kamal-nath-resigns-as-cm-ahead-of-trust-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Madhya Pradesh: Kamal Nath resigns as CM ahead of trust vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-321269 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kamal-nath.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/kamal-nath.jpg 485w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/kamal-nath-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/>Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath on Friday resigned from his post, hours ahead of a Supreme Court-ordered trust vote, thereby paving way for the opposition BJP to stake claim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Nath submitted his resignation to Governor Lalji Tandon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Addressing the media, Nath said \u201ctoday the BJP has murdered democracy\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BJP leader and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan tweeted &#8220;Satyameva Jayate&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Jyotiraditya Scindia, called Kamal Nath&#8217;s resignation &#8220;victory of people of Madhya Pradesh.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On March 11, Jyotiraditya Scindia joined BJP, ending his 18-year association with Congress. At least 22 MLAs of Congress resigned after Scindia\u2019s exit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Top Court on Thursday ordered the Kamal Nath government to face a floor test today at 5pm.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath on Friday resigned from his post, hours ahead of a Supreme Court-ordered trust vote, thereby paving way for the opposition BJP to stake claim. Nath submitted his resignation to Governor Lalji Tandon. Addressing the media, Nath said \u201ctoday the BJP has murdered democracy\u201d. BJP leader and former Madhya Pradesh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":321269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2923,1801,2014,2026],"tags":[4370,1043],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321245"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321274,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321245\/revisions\/321274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/321269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}