Unruffled Delhi: Peril is much from over for the Congress Birthday party’s Rajya Sabha nominees. Genuinely, in some circumstances, it is only increasing. After facing inside of discontent over its listing of candidates, the secure collectively will now even secure to contest elections in three states — Rajasthan, Haryana and Maharashtra – for its nominees to enter the Better Residence of Parliament.
In Rajasthan, the put the secure collectively is in energy, it used to be supposed to be a cakewalk for the three “outsider” candidates — Randeep Surjewala, Pramod Tiwari and Mukul Wasnik. Alternatively, the entry into the fray by media baron Subhash Chandra, who filed his nomination papers on the final day with the make stronger of the BJP, has rattled the secure collectively. Some Congress MLAs were openly upset about the truth that “outsiders” got tickets, and with Assembly polls now not too some distance-off, no one from the command unit used to be even regarded as for a Rajya Sabha berth. If disagreeable-balloting occurs, it would also simply set the candidature of now not lower than one of the foremost three in jeopardy, which is at risk of be Mr Pramod Tewari.
In the 200-member Rajasthan Assembly, every candidate wishes 41 votes to recall. The Congress has 108 MLAs and the BJP has 71 votes. They’ve 30 surplus votes, nonetheless to recall a 2nd seat, they need one other 11 votes. To recall a third seat, the Congress wishes 15 extra votes. Smaller occasions and Independents will therefore play a foremost feature to search out out who wins the seat. There are 13 Independents, two Rashtriya Loktantrik Birthday party (RLP) members, two of the Bharatiya Tribal Birthday party (BTP) and two CPI(M) MLAs.
In Haryana, meanwhile, the entry of Kartikeya Sharma, son of veteran Congress leader Vinod Sharma, has queered the pitch for Congress candidate Ajay Maken. To recall a Rajya Sabha seat in the command, a candidate wishes to secure now not lower than 30 votes, and the Congress has 31. But no one is counting on Kuldeep Bishnoi, who has been sulking for some time, especially with Bhupinder Singh Hooda being given full retain watch over of the secure collectively before the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. Also, in the final Rajya Sabha election, the legit Congress candidate, R.K. Anand, lost on yarn of of grand disagreeable-balloting taking residing.
In Maharashtra too, the imposition of Imran Pratapgarhi has irked local leaders. Maharashtra Congress leader Ashish Deshmukh on Tuesday wrote to Congress president Sonia Gandhi asserting his resignation as total secretary of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee, calling it an injustice in direction of Congress group. The BJP has set up a further candidate to guarantee an election takes residing. If there is disagreeable- balloting, the legit Congress candidate can also maybe be in be troubled.
The Congress has been severely criticised for asserting these names as its candidates, and if the secure collectively’s legit candidates are defeated, this would be a substantial embarrassment for the secure collectively high picture.
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