Pandemonium was witnessed in the State Assembly on Wednesday, when the Opposition members raised the issue of ministers giving statements in contrast with the replies filed by them to the House.
At the outset of Question Hour, Leader of the Opposition Gopal Bhargava and Narottam Mishra Mishra raised the matter of ministers giving statements in the media which were at variance with their written replies in the assembly.
Terming this as a ‘Constitutional crisis’, Bhargava claimed ministers backtracked from written statements given in the House (on issues of Mandsaur firing, irregularities in tree plantation drive and organisation of 2016 Simhastha or religious fair in Ujjain).
He said Congress ministers contradicted their own statements while talking to the media.
Pointing at Nath's tweet about the Mandsaur police firing besides alleged scams in tree plantation and holding of Simhastha, Mishra said the CM's tweet contradicted ministers' written replies.
Claiming that nothing unconstitutional has happened, Nath said he is well aware of constitutional provisions and doesn’t need a lesson on this issue from the opposition.
In written replies in the assembly Monday, respective ministers endorsed the previous BJP government's stand on the Mandsaur police firing, in which six farmers were killed in June 2017, besides alleged scams in tree plantation carried out along the Narmada and construction work for Simhastha.
However, the ministers concerned later appeared to backtrack from their statements in the House.