Bharatiya Janata Party (BjP) Legislature Party leaders led by Jairam Thakur would meet Himachal Pradesh Governor Shiv Pratap Shukla early Wednesday earlier than the meeting meets, the sources mentioned, including they could seek a Floor Test in opposition to the Congress authorities. The BJP claimed that the Congress authorities has misplaced majority within the meeting, the sources mentioned.
The improvement is coming hours after six Congress MLAs voted in favour of the BJP candidate within the Rajya Sabha polls in Himachal Pradesh, triggering a political disaster within the state.
Aiming a harm management, high Congress management swung into motion to pacify the disgruntled legislators lawmakers.
Cross-voting triggers disaster in Himachal
The six MLAs had left Shimla for Haryana on Tuesday after casting their votes within the Rajya Sabha polls. They are learnt to be in contact with the BJP, amid indicators of a disaster engulfing the Congress authorities in Himachal Pradesh.
Congress deploys Hooda, Shivakumar to defuse disaster
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge appointed senior leaders Bhupinder Singh Hooda and DK Shivakumar to interact with the six MLAs, who’re learnt to be “disappointed” with the working model of Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu and are searching for his alternative.
The sources mentioned former Haryana chief minister Hooda and Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister Shivakumar would attain Shimla early Wednesday to take inventory of the state of affairs because the Congress authorities within the state faces an existential disaster.
Dramatic victory of BJP candidate after tie
In a shocking upset for the ruling Congress in Himachal Pradesh, the BJP on Tuesday gained the state’s lone Rajya Sabha seat with its candidate Harsh Mahajan defeating Congress stalwart Abhishek Manu Singhvi and apparently setting the stage for a no-trust movement within the meeting.
The voting was a tie with each the Congress and the BJP candidates getting 34 votes, indicating that no less than six Congress MLAs voted in opposition to the get together. The outcome was then declared on the idea of a draw of heaps, officers mentioned.
(With PTI inputs)
