Bar six Rajasthan MLAs who defected to Congress from voting in Rajya Sabha polls, calls for BSP

By PTI

JAIPUR: The Bahujan Samaj Party on Wednesday wrote to Rajasthan Governor Kalraj Mishra and Assembly Speaker C P Joshi demanding that the six social gathering MLAs who had defected to the Congress be barred from voting within the Rajya Sabha polls.

The elections to 4 seats of the Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan can be held on June 10.

State BSP president Bhagwan Singh Baba within the letter stated a case underneath the Anti-Defection Law is occurring towards the MLAs within the Supreme Court.

“In such a situation, these six MLAs should be stopped from voting in the Rajya Sabha elections because the BSP has decided that it will not support any party or independent in the Rajya Sabha elections,” Baba stated.

Reacting to this, state Congress chief Govind Singh Dotasra stated the six MLAs had merged with the Congress and now they’re social gathering legislators.

The six MLA–Rajendra Gudha, Lakhan Meena, Deepchand Kheria, Sandeep Yadav, Joginder Awana and Wajib Ali–had joined the Congress in September 2019.

The Congress at current has 108 MLAs.

The Congress has fielded three candidates for the elections and the BJP one.

The Congress has determined to shift its MLAs in Rajasthan to a Udaipur resort, with social gathering sources saying they worry that the BJP will poach them forward of the June 10 Rajya Sabha elections.

The Congress transfer has come a day after media baron Subhash Chandra, who’s backed by the BJP, filed his nomination papers as an unbiased candidate for the Rajya Sabha polls.

The submitting of papers by him as an unbiased candidate had prompted Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot to allege that the BJP desires to bask in horse buying and selling.