Newly elected Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) parliamentarian GS Damor submitted his resignation from Madhya Pradesh Assembly on Tuesday.
On the same day, State assembly Speaker NP Prajapati accepted the resignation. Former State government official Damor was recently elected to Lok Sabha from Jhabua constituency.
After Damor resigned from the State assembly, the BJP that was already facing shortage of numbers, has come down to 108 only.
With the resignation of Damor, it is certain that soon a by-election would take place at Jhabua assembly constituency.
Damor has the distinction of defeating the son and father in two elections in a space of six months. He defeated Vikrant Bhuria in the assembly elections in December and his father Kantilal Bhuria, the defending MP, in the general elections last week.
At present, the BJP has 109 MLAs in the present House. After Damor quit, the party would have to face a by-election in the state. In the current situation, the Congress would welcome the change when the strength of the House is reduced to 229 excluding the nominated member and Damore. That gives Congress a winning edge on its own strength of 114.
With the induction of more ministers two from BSP, one from SP and at least two independents the ruling combine would be in a clover, but after Damor retained his assembly seat, the BJP has come down to 108.
The independents as also the BSP and SP members have already been alleging that the BJP has been trying to allure them with hefty money offers.