GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 11th June. Congress MLA Kuldeep Bishnoi, who cross-voted in Rajya Sabha elections in Haryana, might be suspended soon from the party, Congress sources said.
The Congress party will also write to the Speaker to get Bishnoi’s Membership cancelled from the Assembly, Congress sources said.
In Haryana, Congress candidate Ajay Maken lost the Rajya Sabha elections to media baron Kartikeya Sharma, the BJP-supported independent candidate, by a “narrow margin.”
“By a very very, very narrow margin, Ajay Maken has lost,” Haryana Congress MLA Bharat Bhushan Batra told media persons after the results of the polls were announced.
Voting was held on June 10 to elect two members to the Upper House of Parliament from Haryana.
Bharatiya Janata Party’s Krishan Lal Panwar won with 31 votes, leaving the battle for the second seat between Ajay Maken and Kartikeya Sharma.
Amid allegations of cross-voting and rule violations, the counting of votes was postponed and there was a recounting of votes that went on past midnight.
Out of 90 MLAs in the Haryana Legislative Assembly, independent candidate Balraj Kundu abstained and a vote of Congress was rejected leaving 88 votes valid. Sharma, who was backed by the BJP and its ally Jannayak Janata Party (JJP), got 29.6 votes while Maken received 29 votes.
Commenting on Congress MLA Kuldeep Bishnoi, the CM said that he voted openly after listening to his “inner conscience”.
“He (Congress MLA Kuldeep Bishnoi) has voted openly after listening to his inner conscience. I can say that he has faith in PM Modi’s policies and ideology. He didn’t even think what Congress party was going to do with him after this,” he added.
After the Congress lost the seat, Bishnoi, MLA from Adampur, tweeted a cryptic message today. “I have the ability to crush the fun, Do not leave the forest because of the fear of snakes. good morning,” he tweeted.
The polling to elect the members of the Upper House of the Parliament on 16 Rajya Sabha seats spread across four states took place on June 10 amid speculations of horse-trading and fears of cross-voting.
Last week, 41 candidates from 11 states- Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand and Telangana were elected unopposed.
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