Chautala accuses Congress MLA of conspiracy

Rajya Sabha election from Haryana got a dramatic turn of events, as the Congress on Friday decided to vote for controversial lawyer RK Anand, who is pitted against a BJP-supported independent candidate and media baron Subhash Chandra.

Where Media baron and BJP-backed Independent candidate Subhash Chandra unexpectedly won in the Rajya Sabha polls on Saturday after the 14 votes of the Congress were declared invalid, lawyer RK Anand, who was backed by the INLD and Congress, had the numbers to sail through as on Friday, the Congress openly came out in support of Anand. 

The INLD and Congress have 19 and 17 legislators in the Haryana assembly respectively. Had they all voted for Anand, he would have won easily. But the votes of 14 Congress MLAs — all belonging to the Bhupinder Singh Hooda camp — were rejected. The Haryana Assembly has 90 members. Out of 90 votes, Singh got 40, Anand 21 and Chandra got 15 votes while 14 votes were rejected.