The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has written to the Madhya Pradesh governor demanding a special assembly session on the grounds that the Congress government no longer has the numbers to pull through.

Buoyed by the results of exit polls, which have predicted a landslide win for the BJP in the state, Leader of Opposition Gopal Bhargav has written a letter to governor Anandiben Patel. “We are sending a letter to the Governor requesting an assembly session as there are a lot of issues... It (the Madhya Pradesh government) will fall on its own. I don`t believe in horse-trading but I feel its time has come and it will have to go soon,” he was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.

Madhya Pradesh Leader of Opposition & BJP leader Gopal Bhargava: We are sending a letter to Governor requesting an assembly session as there are a lot of issues. pic.twitter.com/CXTwNLXYOM

— ANI (@ANI) May 20, 2019

The Congress had captured power from the BJP after the assembly polls held last year. They have a wafer thin majority in the house and have the support of Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav`s Samajwadi Party.

In the assembly polls conducted last year, the Cong won 114 of the state`s 230 seats, where majority mark is at 116. Mayawati`s Bahujan Samaj Party, which has two lawmakers, and Akhilesh Yadav`s Samajwadi Party which has one, are supporting the Congress. The BJP has 109 seats.

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