Cross-voting, Hanuman Chalisa chants, and court setbacks in Rajya Sabha race

Elections have been held for 16 vacant seats within the Rajya Sabha in 4 states, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, and Haryana. Forty-one candidates have been elected unopposed from the opposite states. PTII

The Rajya Sabha elections have been stuffed with twists and turns. As lawmakers voted on 16 seats for the Higher Home, all eyes are on the 4 states – Karnataka, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, and Haryana – the place the struggle is shut. Political events had shifted their MLAs to resorts due to the worry that their leaders will likely be poached. It didn’t cease defectors.

We check out all that’s unfolded for the reason that polling started this morning.

Karnataka

In Karnataka, there’s a heated contest happening for one of many 4 seats. At the very least, two MLAs from the Janata Dal (Secular) have cross-voted. Srinivas Gowda and Srinivas Gubbi voted for the Congress occasion.

These are essential votes, because it’s a decent race for one seat between the 2 opposition events within the state – the Congress and JD(S) – who’ve each sworn to defeat the ruling Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP).

After the voting, Gowda instructed the media that he voted for Congress. Requested why, he quipped, “As a result of I find it irresistible.” The legislator had stated previously that he would give up the JD(S) and be part of Congress.

Celebration chief HD Kumaraswamy confirmed that two of the 32 JD(S) MLAs voted for Congress. “By not supporting a secular occasion like ours, the Congress has strengthened the BJP,” he added.

Six candidates filed their nominations in Karnataka for 4 seats, resulting in all of the combating and cross-voting.

The BJP has filed three candidates although it will probably win solely two seats comfortably given its numbers and the Congress has fielded two, even when it had the numbers to win one seat.

For the fourth seat, the BJP is left with 32 votes and the Congress with 24, whereas the JD(S) has 32 MLAs, of which two have now voted for the Congress. No occasion has the quantity to win the seat however all have fielded candidates. The JD(S) has advisable one candidate.

Maharashtra

In Maharashtra, the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition of the Shiv Sena, Congress, and Nationalist Congress Celebration (NCP) suffered a setback after the Bombay excessive courtroom didn’t permit arrested minister Nawab Malik to vote within the election.

Malik’s legal professionals tried to say his plea earlier than a single-judge Bench of Justice Bharati H Dangre. “If the particular courtroom has refused the permission, then when is the query of sending him in escort, the order must be put aside.” The courtroom refused to grant a direct listening to.

A particular courtroom on Thursday had put aside the NCP chief’s plea together with that of former Maharashtra minister Anil Deshmukh.

Deshmukh’s legal professionals had not talked about his plea earlier than the excessive courtroom till late midday. The 2 NCP leaders couldn’t vote.

Nonetheless, the ruling coalition bought a small increase when All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) determined to vote in favour of the Congress candidate.

“Our 2 AIMIM Maharashtra MLAs have been requested to vote for @INCIndia candidate @ShayarImran for Rajya Sabha seat. We prolong our greatest needs to him! To defeat BJP, our occasion @aimim_national has determined to vote for Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) within the Rajya Sabha elections in Maharashtra. Our political/ideological variations nevertheless will proceed with @ShivSena which is a accomplice in MVA together with @INCIndia and @Maha_speaks_ncp,” AIMIM chief from Aurangabad Imtiaz Jaleel tweeted.

Whilst voting progressed via the day, the BJP claimed that three votes of the MVA – Congress’ Yashomati Thakur, NCP’s Jitendra Awhad, and Shiv Sena’s Suhas Kande – have been invalid. Nonetheless, the returning officer dismissed the declare.

The show-stealer most likely was Unbiased MLA Ravi Rana. Just lately, embroiled within the Hanuman Chalisa controversy along with his spouse Navneet Rana, he chanted the prayer 101 instances earlier than leaving to forged his vote.
Seven candidates are contesting for the six seats from Maharashtra.

Rajasthan

In Rajasthan, cross-voting was the order of the day. The ruling Congress is claimed to have acquired two votes from the BJP. Dholpur MLA, Shobharani Kushwah, has allegedly cross-voted for a Congress MLA. Following this, BJP agent and MLA Rajendra Rathore demanded that the vote be rejected, stories The Indian Categorical.

In one other incident, BJP MLA from Garhi, Kailash Chandra Meena, ended up displaying his vote to Congress state president and polling agent Govind Singh Dotasra erroneously. Claiming that he had seen, Dostara stated it needs to be rejected.

In the meantime, Congress chief Sachin Pilot stated hours earlier than polling closed, “All our three candidates – Mukul Wasnik, Randeep Singh Surjewala, and Pramod Tiwari will win. Be it MLAs or independents, everyone seems to be with us.”

Each vote issues in Rajasthan the place 5 candidates are within the fray for 4 seats.

Haryana

In Haryana, MLAs throughout occasion traces appeared assured and claimed that no cross-voting had taken place.

Congress nominee Ajay Maken stated, “I shall win, 200 per cent. There isn’t any doubt on that”.

Congress MLA Bishan Lal Saini stated, “No cross-voting happened in Congress. BJP ought to be careful for its personal MLAs. Congress is getting at the very least 35 votes. If this quantity seems to be incorrect, I’ll get my moustache shaved.”

Earlier within the day, BJP’s senior leaders Anil Vij, Kanwarpal Gujjar, and Sandeep Singh had claimed that occasion nominee Krishan Panwar and BJP-backed Unbiased candidate and Information X proprietor Kartikeya Sharma will win.

All was going properly in Haryana, till Sharma objected to 2 votes of Congress MLAs and wrote to the Election Fee (EC), looking for disqualification of the votes. Sharma alleged that Kiran Choudhry and BB Batra confirmed their votes to “aside from their designated occasion observer”. He additionally stated that he had complained to the Returning Officer RK Nandal however he didn’t register the protest, in accordance with The Indian Categorical.

The Election Fee officers are inspecting the grievance and can a choice after 4 pm, when the polling concluded.

With inputs from companies

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