Mumbai: It’s deja vu again for the Congress unit in Maharashtra as at least 78 party MLAs cross voted during the Friday’s MLC polls leading to the defeat of a candidate supported by the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance (MVA).
Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole claimed the Congress MLAs who cross voted in favour of the ruling alliance candidates have fallen in a ‘trap’ laid by the party.
Notwithstanding Patole’s claims of a trap laid for the MLAs, there are plenty of red faces in the Congress leadership in the state as this was the second occasion where the Congress MLAs cross voted. In 2022 there was cross voting for the MLC polls that precipitated the fall of the MVA government and led to a fullfledged inquiry by the Congress top brass that indicated that almost a dozen MLAs had cross voted.”The official candidate of our alliance is defeated, what kind of trap is this that has hurt us more than the offending MLAs.” said a Congress MLA and party leader.