Kamal Nath, the president of the Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee and a former chief minister, said on Thursday that he has a pen drive full of videos from the state’s honey trap scandal in 2019. This sparked a political storm in Madhya Pradesh, with the Bharatiya Janata Party accusing him of impropriety on Friday.
On Thursday, after some Congress MLAs raised the issue of a FIR being filed against former forest minister and Congress MLA Umang Singhar in the case of a 40-year-old woman’s suicide and accused the state government of dirty politics, Nath said he still had a pen drive containing information about the honey trap scandal, but that he believed in doing decent politics.
Responding to this, BJP state president VD Sharma said, “Kamal Nath is blackmailing the state government but he should first reveal from where he got the pen drive. He misused the government machinery when he was the CM. If he has proof against any politician or officer, why did he not take any action…”
On Friday, Nath offered an explanation: “Many journalists and others have a pen drive of the honey trap scandal. It was first on pen drive, the matter went to police and court later.”
In 2019, it emerged that a gang of five women and a men were blackmailing some bureaucrats and politicians using sex tapes shot without their knowledge. The names of the politicians ensnared in the case have not been made public to date.
