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THE DEFEAT of Abhishek Manu Singhvi in Rajya Sabha election in Himachal Pradesh may have come as a huge embarrassment to the Congress but the central leadership and Singhvi himself had prior information that a handful of MLAs who were upset with Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu were restive and could cross over, sources said. In fact, it was the scale of the defection which surprised the party.
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.
In a shock result, the BJP emerged victorious on Tuesday in the election for the single vacant Rajya Sabha seat in Himachal Pradesh, where the Congress is in power, with 40 MLAs in the 68-member Assembly. While the defeat is embarrassing for the Congress, which was expecting its nominee, senior Supreme Court advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, to sail through, now there is a possibility of its government collapsing, should it fail to pass the Budget in the ongoing Session.
Former HImachal Pradesh Chief Minister and BJP leader on Wednesday reached Raj Bhavan to meet Governor Shiv Pratap Shukla a day after the party won the lone Rajya Sabha seat in the state. Members of the BJP Legislative Party also met the Governor on Wednesday.
Mock voting, dinners and back-channel dialogue, a complaint to the Election Commission (EC), and legislators sequestered in a hotel. The stage is set for a high-octane Rajya Sabha election battle in Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, and Himachal Pradesh on Tuesday.
The Rajya Sabha election for the lone seat in Himachal Pradesh took an interesting turn Thursday with the BJP fielding a candidate, forcing a contest. A section of the Congress claimed there was a sense of resentment among some of its MLAs over the high command’s decision to field CWC member and senior lawyer Abhishek Singhvi, an outsider, as the candidate.
The Rajya Sabha elections on February 27 may not change the BJP’s tally in the Upper House, but its look will be starkly different. Among the 28 names announced by the party – the same as the number of seats held by it currently – 24 are new, with only four repeated.