Rajya Sabha Ballot Outcomes: After Congress misplaced the lone Rajya Sabha seat in Himachal Pradesh to the BJP after six MLAs of the ‘Grand Outdated Social gathering’ cross-voted within the polls, the insurgent lawmakers at the moment are demanding the get together to interchange the chief minister, sources have mentioned.
One of many insurgent Congress MLAs Rajinder Rana has demanded that Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu get replaced because the state’s chief minister. He additional mentioned that many different insurgent MLAs aren’t pleased with Sukhu.
The get together has requested Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar and former Haryana CM Bhupender Hooda to resolve the disaster.
In the meantime, all of the BJP MLAs in Himachal Pradesh and ex-CM Jairam Thakur will likely be assembly Himachal Pradesh Governor Shiv Pratap Shukla.
‘Shock’ defeat for Congress in Himachal
The Congress on Tuesday suffered a significant upset in Himachal Pradesh by the hands of the BJP within the Rajya Sabha elections which have been marred by cross-voting in all of the three states although it received three seats in Karnataka whereas the saffron get together pocketed an additional seat in Uttar Pradesh.
Polling was held for 10 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 4 in Karnataka and one seat in Himachal Pradesh.
On February 20, 41 candidates together with BJP chief JP Nadda, former Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Union ministers Ashwini Vaishnaw and L Murugan have been elected unopposed to the Higher Home.
Himachal Pradesh noticed cross-voting that led to the victory of BJP candidate Harsh Mahajan over Congress’s Abhishek Manu Singhvi. Mahajan was declared winner by draw of heaps after each the candidates have been tied, securing 34 votes every.
The end result made it clear that six Congress MLAs and the three Independents voted in favour of the BJP. At current, the Congress has 40 MLAs, BJP 25 whereas three are independents within the 68-member Himachal Pradesh meeting.
Singhvi mentioned the BJP’s transfer to discipline a candidate in opposition to a celebration which has 40 members in comparison with its 25 was a transparent message that the saffron get together desires to win by hook or criminal and extra by criminal.
With inputs from PTI
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