‘If 90 Per Cent Of Muslims Don’t Vote, It Will Be A Big Blow To Us’: Senior Congress Leader Kamal Nath

With a week to go for the upcoming Madhya Pradesh Assembly Elections, the Congress party has found itself in a new controversy. A video of Congress leader Kamal Nath is doing the rounds wherein he is heard as saying that saying that if the party does not get 90 per cent Muslim votes, it’ll be a significant loss for the party.

Following the leak of the video, the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to approach the Elections Commission of India, Times Now has reported.

Kamal Nath is a nine-time elected Member of Parliament of the Congress from Chhindwara.

"They have said a really good thing about voting. How much is the percentage of voting? I request you. You should see the old records. It is on the Internet even today. If you want you can take it out. In the Muslim booths, what is the percentage of voting that has taken place? If 50-60 percentage of voting has taken place, why was it just 60 per cent? Why wasn't it 90 per cent?", he was also quoted as saying in the leaked video, as reported by Times Now.

He asked the people in the meeting room to do the post-mortem over the Muslim voting trends in the previous elections and claimed that any figure below 90 per cent would be a big loss for the party.

Nath had earlier described the upcoming state elections as a big battleground and claimed that he is hungry to take his party back to power for the first time since 2003.