Bhopal, March 5 Amid trading of charges between the ruling Congress and the opposition BJP in Madhya Pradesh, the existential crisis facing the Kamal Nath government has abated as four of the 10 MLAs who went missing are likely to return to the ruling dispensation's fold by Thursday afternoon.
Congress sources said that these four MLAs are likely to accompany former Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh to Bhopal by a chartered plane on Thursday afternoon. The sources said that MLAs Bisahulal Singh, Hardip Singh Dang, Raghuraj Kasana and Independent Surender Singh Shera were in Delhi and Bengaluru.
Digvijaya Singh had claimed that Congress MLAs were lured away to Delhi with the promise of Rs 25 crore to Rs 35 crore. Bahujan Samaj Party MLA Ram Bai was allegedly rescued from a hotel in Gurugram in Haryana.
The BSP lawmaker and five other MLAs BSP's Sanjiv Singh Kushwaha, Samajwadi Party's Rajesh Shukla, and Congress men Aidel Singh Kasana, Ranveer Jatav and Kamlesh Jatav returned to Bhopal on Wednesday evening, much to the relief of the ruling party circles.
These MLAs held a meeting with Chief Minister Kamal Nath for several hours, during which Congress incharge of party affairs Deepak Bawaria was also present.
Digvijaya Singh had claimed that five BJP leaders from the state were involved in luring away the MLAs from the ruling camp. On the other hand, former minister Narottam Mishra alleged that the whole drama was staged in view of the impending Rajya Sabha elections in the state.
( With inputs from IANS )