Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Bala Bachchan on Wednesday said he was ready to become president of the State Congress if the party asks him to take up the organisational post. Infighting in the Madhya Pradesh Congress is delaying appointment of a new MPCC president with various factions laying claim to the post.

Chief Minister Kamal Nath, who will be completing one year in office next week, is currently holding the post of PCC Chief.

“I am a small party worker. By working in the party, I have reached to this position,” he said while talking to media persons.

He added, "Whatever responsibility is given to me, I am ready to discharge it religiously, Bachchan, a tribal leader, told reporters here. Bachchan, considered a Nath loyalist, was asked about his name doing the rounds for the post of MPCC chief in political circles here. The Home Minister was also asked whether he was ready to up the new responsibility if assigned.

Nath has resigned from the post of MP Congress head two times in the last 11 months - first after taking over as Chief Minister in December 2018 and second time when his party faced crushing defeat in the state in the April-May Lok Sabha elections.

The Congress could win just one of the 29 Lok Sabha seats in MP. Except Chhindwara, won by Congress candidate Nakul Nath, Kamal Nath's son, the BJP swept all the seats.

Despite resigning twice, the party high command asked Nath to continue in the organisational post till a successor is appointed. Jostling among different camps in the State Congress said to be delaying the appointment of a new president.

Amid sharp differences among different groups over the MP Congress chiefs post, Congress president Sonia Gandhi in September intervened and referred the issue of public spat between senior leader Digvijay Singh and forest minister Umang Singhar to the party’s disciplinary committee. Singhar, said to be close to senior party leader Jyotiraditya Scindia, had criticised Singh and accused him of running a proxy Government in the State.