“Several of our MLAs have been elected for the first time. They need to be trained in casting their votes”
“Several of our MLAs have been elected for the first time. They need to be trained in casting their votes”
The Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party in Rajasthan shifted its MLAs on Monday to a camp in a resort at Jamdoli, on the outskirts of Jaipur, for imparting coaching to them for polling within the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections. The choice adopted an analogous transfer by the ruling Congress, which has sequestered its legislators in a resort close to Udaipur.
The BJP, which has 71 members within the State Assembly, is ready to win one seat, after which it is going to be left with 30 surplus votes. Besides fielding former Minister Ghanshyam Tiwari as its official candidate, the social gathering has prolonged assist to media baron Subhash Chandra, contesting as an Independent.
The BJP MLAs reached the social gathering’s State headquarters at Sardar Patel Marg right here, from the place they had been taken to the resort in two buses. As many as 64 of the 71 legislators reached the coaching camp by late night. Union Minister Narendra Singh Tomar and BJP’s State in-charge Arun Singh met them on the resort.
BJP State president Satish Poonia mentioned the senior leaders would maintain demonstrations on the camp to apprise the MLAs of the polling course of. “Several of our MLAs have been elected for the first time. They need to be trained in casting their votes. Lectures will also be organised for the legislators, throwing light on the party’s history, principles and the ideology of cultural nationalism,” he mentioned.
Mr. Poonia denied that the camp had any form of barabandi (sequestering) to maintain the flock collectively. “It is the Congress which has resorted to this tactic with a false claim that their MLAs were being lured through horse-trading. The Congress government in Rajasthan is a complete failure and the Chief Minister somehow wants to save his chair,” he mentioned.
Leader of Opposition within the State Assembly Gulab Chand Kataria mentioned there was “nothing wrong” with the MLAs staying collectively until the day of polling. Mr. Kataria claimed that a number of Congress and impartial MLAs had been in contact with him and had been keen to do “cross-voting” to make sure the victory of Mr. Tiwari and Mr. Chandra.
The Congress has claimed the assist of 126 MLAs, together with 108 from the social gathering itself. The ruling social gathering, which has fielded Mukul Wasnik, Randeep Surjewala and Pramod Tiwari as its candidates, wants first-preference votes of 123 MLAs for his or her victory.
Source: www.thehindu.com
