RS polls: Congress expels six UP MLAs who cross-voted against Sibal
BY MPOST BUREAU15 Jun 2016 11:12 PM GMT
MPOST BUREAU15 Jun 2016 11:12 PM GMT
The MLAs who have been expelled for six years are Sanjay Pratap Jayaswal (Basti district), Madhuri Verma (Bahraich), Vijay Dube (Kushinagar), Mohammed Muslim (Tiloi-Amethi), Dil Nawaz Khan (Bulandshahar) and Nawab Kasim Ali Khan (Rampur).
AICC General Secretary Janardan Dwivedi announced the decision in presence of senior leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, who was the party’s authorised representative in the RS elections in UP last Saturday.
Sibal edged past Preeti Mahapatra, put up by the BJP in the cliffhanger and secured his Rajya Sabha berth with the support from other parties.
With only 25 first preference votes to his credit and his final tally adding up to 34, Sibal fared only marginally better than his MLC colleague Deepak Singh in the UP Legislative Council polls on Friday.
Azad, who is the Congress General Secretary in-charge of Uttar Pradesh, said while three of the six expelled MLAs voted in favour of the BJP, three others sided with BSP.
Azad, who is the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, utilised the occasion to target the BJP, alleging that the cross voting in UP and the controversy in Haryana showed that the saffron party went all out to win the polls through "misuse of power".
Attacking BJP for putting up Mahapatra as an additional candidate when it had as many as 27 less votes, he said this was the first such example he was seeing in his long political career.
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