Though the Congress is yet to decide the fate of present Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president Kamal Nath, the BJP conducted an online poll as to who would replace Nath in the State. Congress MLA Jitu Patwari emerged as winner with 60 per cent votes.
The BJP MP unit had carried out an online poll on tweeter to guess who could replace PCC chief Kamal Nath in the opposition party.
BJP state unit from its official handle had tweeted a question for netizens, “Who will replace PCC chief Kamal Nath within the state? The poll was thrown to the twitteratis on July 5, 2021 and a little less than 1300 online users took part in the poll.
Congress working president Jitu Patwari emerged as the clear winner securing 60% of the votes polled (1268). Kamal Nath close aide Sajjan Singh Verma could gain only 13% votes while Jaivardhan Singh, son of Digvijaya Singh polled 27% votes.An MLA from Rau in Indore, Patwari was a minister in Kamal Nath cabinet and is party working president now. He had been Youth Congress president in MP and is among youth leaders nurtured by former party president Rahul Gandhi.
Responding to the online poll by the BJP, Congress IT cell members also threw an online for netizens in reply offering CM choices with leaders like Narottam Mishra, Narendra Singh Tomar, VD Sharma and Kailash Vijayvargiya.
Some Congress workers slammed the BJP for being too concerned for the Congress organisation while the BJP workers also pointed out that it was no business of their party and advised their own party to focus on the organisation rather than meddling in Congress affairs.
Congress spokesperson Manak Agrawal reacting to the BJP online poll slammed the ruling party saying BJP leaders have lost cool seeing surging population of the PCC chief Kamal Nath. Such polls from BJP twitter handles exhibit opposition party’s mental status and jitters, he added.