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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.
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.
High drama unfolded in Himachal Pradesh on Tuesday as the BJP pulled off an upset by defeating the Congress’s Abhishek Manu Singhvi in the Rajya Sabha elections because of cross-voting by six of the party’s MLAs. While the BJP called on the Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu government to step down, saying it had “lost the mandate and trust”, the CM dismissed the claim.
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.