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Members of the Himachal Pradesh Congress remained at cross-roads on Friday with several ‘rebels’ now wishing to return to the party fold. Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said that the disqualified MLAs were in talks with party leader Vikramaditya Singh and indicated a change of heart.
Himachal Pradesh Congress crisis: The six rebel Congress MLAs, who were disqualified from the state Assembly for cross-voting in Rajya Sabha elections challenged the decision in Himachal Pradesh high court on Friday. The cross-voting created a political crisis in the state with the ruling Congress taking some immediate steps to save its government in Himachal Pradesh.
Not many were surprised when the son of six-time Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh and state PWD minister Vikramaditya Singh offered his resignation from the Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu Cabinet on Wednesday while accusing the latter of humiliating his father, deepening the political crisis in the hill state following the party’s loss in the poll for the sole Rajya Sabha seat a day earlier.
Although they skipped the breakfast hosted for MLAs by Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu at his official residence Oakover in Shimla, they enjoyed makki ki roti, sarson ka saag and lassi at a Panchkula hotel in the early hours of Thursday. While the CM claimed “it was a challenge to contact them as their mobile phones were switched off”, the rebels spoke to The Indian Express over the phone.
AS THE CONGRESS faces blow after blow ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, including high-profile exits in several states and the stunning defeat of its candidate in the Rajya Sabha election from Himachal Pradesh, ally CPI(M) has now taken a potshot at it.
Himachal Pradesh Assembly speaker Kuldeep Singh Pathania on February 29 disqualified the six rebel Congress MLAs who cross-voted during the Rajya Sabha elections.
The BJP’s shock victory Tuesday in the election to the lone Rajya Sabha seat in Himachal Pradesh, where the Congress is in power, may be one of the rare instances where the winner was decided by a draw of lots.
The BJP’s Harsh Mahajan, 68, who pulled off a major upset to win the lone vacant Himachal Pradesh Rajya Sabha seat on Tuesday, defeating Congress heavyweight Abhishek Manu Singhvi, picked up the political ropes from his father Des Raj Mahajan, a former Vidhan Sabha Speaker and Congress minister.