MP political crisis: Face floor test on Tuesday, Governor Lalji Tandon to Kamal Nath

BHOPAL: After Madhya Pradesh BJP paraded 106 MLAs in Raj Bhavan on Monday afternoon, governor Lalji Tandon wrote to chief minister Kamal Nath , asking him to conduct a floor test on Tuesday. If it wasn’t done, it will be construed that the Nath government doesn’t have majority, the governor warned.This is the second letter sent by the governor to the CM, the first was sent around 1am on March 14, directing a floor test in the assembly on Monday, which was not conducted.After speaker N P Prajapati adjourned the House till March 26, citing Covid-19 scare and the Union government’s advisory, BJP MLAs boarded two buses and went to Raj Bhavan to prove their numbers.Tandon then wrote to the CM: “I received your reply to my letter, dated March 14, 2020. Thank you. I am sorry that the language and spirit of the letter is not according to Parliamentary traditions. In my March 14 letter, I advised you to conduct a floor test on March 16 in the assembly. Today, the assembly session began, and I read my address, but you did not start proceedings for floor test, nor did you make any effort and the House has been adjourned till March 26.”The governor argued that a Supreme Court order, mentioned by CM Nath in his reply to the Governor’s March 14 letter, “is not applicable to the present scenario and circumstances.”“When the question arises whether a government has confidence of the House or not, in that situation the Supreme Court through its various orders established that the final remedy is floor test alone,” the letter said. “I am sorry to say that instead of conducting a floor test within the stipulated time frame set by me, you tried to delay the floor test which has no basis and significance.”Governor Tandon’s letter said that the reasons given by CM Nath for not holding a floor test are baseless. “Therefore, I again request you to conduct the floor test on March 17, following democratic and Constitutional traditions, and prove your majority or else it will be considered that you don’t have majority in the House,” the letter said.