Cong mulls airlifting two ailing MLAs to vote in RS polls

“We have plans to bring our leader in the House Satyadev Katare, undergoing treatment at a hospital in Mumbai, and MLA Govardhan Upadhyay, who is at a hospital in Indore, by air ambulances to the state Assembly to vote,” MP Congress chief spokesman K K Mishra said on Wednesday.

“We have learnt that BJP is trying hard to defeat our candidate and might even indulge in horse-trading,” he alleged.Congress has 57 MLAs in the House. Each candidate needs 58 votes to sail through in the poll.

Congress MLA, Ramesh Patel, is in jail and the party has moved the High Court to enable him to vote.

BSP supremo Mayawati has already asked her four MLAs to support Congress candidate Vivek Tankha.