BJP leader tweets video showing Kamal Nath endorsing candidates with criminal records

NEW DELHI: BJP MP Giriraj Singh on Saturday posted a video in which Congress leader Kamal Nath can be purpotedly seen endorsing candidates with criminal records.

"Some people say that this man has five cases on him. I say, let it be six. All I want is a person who can win," Nath can be seen saying in the video tweeted by Singh.


"Kamal Nath ji should be taken to Tihar Jail. There he can find a candidate of his choice," Singh took a dig at Nath.

The remark assumes significance in the light of a Supreme Court observation where it said that it would bring the spotlight back on a PIL's main plea to impose life-ban on elected representatives and politicians once they get convicted in a criminal case.

"The prayer in the petition is that if a government servant or a judicial officer is sacked from the job on a conviction in a criminal case, why should the same yardstick be not applied to politicians and ban them from contesting elections altogether after their conviction in a criminal case?" the court said.

The president of Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC), Kamal Nath, is one of the prime contenders as the Congress's chief ministerial candidate for the upcoming assembly polls in the state.

Earlier today, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chahuhan's brother-in-law Sanjay Singh Masani joined the Congress, saying the state needs the party chief Kamal Nath not Chouhan as the CM. Masani is the brother of Chouhan's wife Sadhna Singh.

He joined the Congress in the presence of its Madhya Pradesh unit president Kamal Nath and another senior state leader Jyotiraditya Scindia and said the state needs a leader like Nath not Chouhan.

"Madhya Pradesh does not need Shivraj but Nath. We all know how Chhindwara has been developed and is identified with Kamal Nath. The state also needs to be identified with him," Masani said. Kamal Nath represents Chhindwara in the Lok Sabha.

(With inputs from agencies)