The members who came for voting seen wearing masks and standing in a queue maintaining social distance in view of Covid-19 pandemic
BHOPAL| On Friday voting for three vacant Rajya Sabha seats in Madhya Pradesh concluded in Afternoon after all the 206 MLA’s voted. Most surprisingly the Congress legislator who tested COVID-19 positive also came to cast their vote.
As the assembly official said, Voting began at 9 am in the state assembly complex here and ended around 1.15 pm.
The official said, the Congress legislator, who is a Covid-19 patient, was the last one to cast his ballot wearing a PPE suit. He came to the assembly complex in an ambulance.
Both the leading parties BJP and Congress fielded two candidates each for the three seats of the Upper House of Parliament.
While the BJP fielded senior leader and former Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia and former professor of a government college, Sumer Singh Solanki, from the Congress’s side, veteran politician Digvijaya Singh and Dalit leader Phool Singh Baraiya were in the fray.
The members who came for voting seen wearing masks and standing in a queue maintaining social distance in view of Covid-19 pandemic.
For winning a seat in the Rajya Sabha polls from MP, a candidate needs 52 votes. As per the numerical strength of the two parties, BJP is set to win two seats as it has 107 MLAs of its own and has the support of two MLAs of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), one MLA of the Samajwadi Party (SP) and two Independents, party sources said.
BSP’s Sanjeev Kushwaha said, “I have voted for the BJP on my own for the development of the area. There was no directive from the party leadership on the issue.” “The Congress government collapsed not because of us, but due to its internal differences. There was no directive from the party for us.”
“Therefore, we voted for the BJP on our own for the development of our region. The BSP will contest the upcoming by-polls on all the seats.” In the 230-member Madhya Pradesh assembly, 24 seats are currently vacant.
Congress has been left with 92 MLAs after 22 of its legislators, including six who were ministers then, quit the party in support of Scindia’s move to join the BJP. Sources added, Congress is set to win a single seat out of the total three for which polls are being held.
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