Ahmedabad: Gujarat Rajya Sabha election takes a new turn now as BJP fields the third candidate in the race of total 4 seats members. The action has struck fear in congress party for this trick of BJP could lead to the possible poaching of congress party members and result into cross voting against the party.
Earlier both BJP and Congress have announced their candidates for the Rajya Sabha election. Ramilaben Bara and Abhay Bhardwaj are already nominated for the candidateship of Rajya Sabha election by BJP and Congress has given tickets to Bharat Singh Solanki and Shaktisinh Gohil for the same. Rajya Sabha election is going to be held on March 26.
Presently BJP and Congress have respectively 103 and 73 MLAs in the assembly. Each Rajya Sabha candidate, irrespective of BJP or Congress, needs 37 votes in order to win. If BJP wants its third candidate to win then it will need total 111 votes, which is short of 8 seats. On the other hand, Congress requires only 1 MLA vote in its favor in order to win for its two candidates.
Congress needs support of one MLA which it expects from 2 members of BTP and Jignesh Mevani. On the contrary, BJP hopes to convince some members of congress to vote in favor of the BJP candidate.
Since announcing the third candidate Narhari Amin for the Rajya Sabha, the word war has started between the members of BJP and Congress. Deputy CM Nitin Patel claims that many congress leaders are offended from the party and the current provincialism of Congress will benefit BJP to win for the third seat. But Paresh Dhanani assures that Congress party acts above caste and religion and all members of the party are committed to it.
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