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Congress to issue whip to 114 MLAs in Madhya Pradesh for RS polls
Mar-04-2020

The Congress will issue a whip to its 114 MLAs for the March 26 polls to three Rajya Sabha (RS) seats in Madhya Pradesh, hours after the ruling party accused the BJP of taking some of its MLAs to Haryana in a bid to destabilise the Kamal Nath government. The BJP has denied the charge, saying it is not trying to topple the Congress-led government in Madhya Pradesh.

Govind Singh state Legislative Affairs minister said that, Cross-voting will not be tolerated at any cost. Usually, political parties do not issue whip for the Rajya Sabha elections. Congress veteran and Rajya Sabha member Digvijaya Singh, who losing the  last year's Lok Sabha poll from Bhopal to BJP's Pragya Thakur, may seek re-election to the to the Upper House of Parliament.

The Congress may field former Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia also in the Rajya Sabha polls. The BJP is likely renominate former Union minister and Dalit leader Satyanarayan Jatiya for the Rajya Sabha polls. The three Rajya Sabha seats falling vacant in the state are currently held by Digvijaya Singh (Congress), Satyanarayan Jatiya and Prabhat Jha (both from BJP). The BJP is set to make all efforts to retain the two seats, while the Congress wants to take its tally to two from one, as it has more legislators this time around.


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