Ten members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who won in the recent state assembly elections have quit their roles as Members of Parliament (MPs). Two of them, Narendra Singh Tomar and Prahlad Patel, were also Union ministers. They won in the assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh. Tomar was in charge of agriculture, and Patel was a Minister of State for food processing and Jal Shakti.
The others who resigned are Uday Pratap Singh and Riti Pathak from Madhya Pradesh, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Diya Kumari, and Kirori Lal Meena (a Rajya Sabha MP) from Rajasthan, Arun Sao and Gomti Sai from Chhattisgarh, and Rakesh Singh from Madhya Pradesh.
Faggan Singh Kulaste, a minister of state for steel and rural development, was another minister who contested in the state elections but couldn’t secure a win.
Apart from these ten MPs, there are 12 more BJP MPs who won in the state elections of Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, and Madhya Pradesh. Two Lok Sabha MPs from Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, Baba Balaknath and Renuka Singh, respectively, who won in the state elections, are yet to resign from their roles in the Parliament.
