Ailing MLAs may be airlifted for Rajya Sabha polls
Congress has 57 MLAs in the House. Each candidate needs 58 votes to sail through in the poll.
Bhopal: Congress is mulling to airlift two of its seriously ill MLAs to Madhya Pradesh to cast their votes in the June 11 Rajya Sabha polls. “We have plans to bring our leader in the House Satyadev Katare, undergoing treatment at a hospital in Mumbai, and MLA Govardhan Upadhyay, who is at a hospital in Indore, by air ambulances to the state Assembly to vote,” MP Congress chief spokesman K.K. Mishra said on Wednesday.
“We have learnt that BJP is trying hard to defeat our candidate and might even indulge in horse-trading,” he alleged. Congress has 57 MLAs in the House. Each candidate needs 58 votes to sail through in the poll.
Congress MLA, Ramesh Patel, is in jail and the party has moved the HC to enable him to vote. BSP chief Mayawati has already asked her four MLAs to support Congress’ Vivek Tankha.
Congress has deputed Kamal Nath, who is going to camp here from on Thursday and stay put, to see that Tankha wins the election.