Amid deepening political crisis in Madhya Pradesh, around 100 BJP MLAs from the State reached a five-star hotel here in the early hours of Wednesday.
A senior BJP source in Haryana told The Hindu that the MLAs had reached the ITC Grand Bharat hotel around 2 a.m. from the Delhi airport. “The MLAs were accompanied by Haryana BJP in-charge Anil Jain and senior BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya. The two leaders later left,” said the source.
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The television crews following the MLAs were, however, stopped at a police barricade around three km from the hotel, a mediaperson said.
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In the evening, Union Ministers Narendra Singh Tomar and Prahald Singh Patel, who are both from Madhya Pradesh, also held a meeting with the legislators along with Mr. Vijayvargiya and Mr. Jain, according to sources.
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Mr. Patel, who holds the Tourism and Culture portfolio, was scheduled to inaugurate an exhibition about the Jallianwala Bagh massacre at the National Archives in the national capital at 5 p.m. However, he skipped the event and attended the meeting with the MLAs.
The exhibition marking the 130th foundation day of the National Archives was instead inaugurated by National Archives Director General Chandan Sinha.
