Via PTI
GUWAHATI: The Congress on Saturday alleged that the AIUDF indulged in cross-voting within the recently-held Rajya Sabha election in Assam and forged their vote in favour of the ruling BJP-led alliance’s applicants, ensuing within the defeat of the Opposition’s joint nominee.
Chief of Opposition Debabrata Saikia, addressing a press convention right here, stated, “We need to explain that out of 27 Congress MLAs, 25 voted for our joint candidate. One vote used to be disqualified whilst some other one voted for the ruling alliance’s candidate.”
The disqualified vote used to be from Siddique Ahmed and the opposite used to be from Sashi Kanta Das, who had already declared that he would enhance the ruling alliance’s applicants.
Each MLAs had been suspended from the Congress.
Election for 2 Rajya Sabha seats from Assam used to be hung on Thursday with the ruling alliance’s applicants, Pabitra Margherita and Rwngra Narzary, rising winners in opposition to outgoing MP and the Opposition’s joint nominee Ripun Bora.
Margherita polled 46 votes and Narzary 44, whilst Bora controlled simply 35 votes.
All 126 contributors of the Meeting had voted, with one vote being disqualified.
Saikia claimed that all of the last 25 Congress MLAs voted for Bora as did the lone CPI(M) MLA and Unbiased legislator, accounting for general 27 out of 35 votes that Bora gained.
“The celebration that had confident of 15 votes gave handiest 8 in our favour and the remaining went somewhere else,” he stated, it appears relating to the AIUDF which has 15 contributors within the Area and had introduced its enhance for Bora’s candidature.
Saikia additionally pointed that the Congress has moved a breach of privilege movement within the state Meeting over BJP legislators’ purported remarks inside of in addition to outdoor the Area that Congress MLAs had voted for the ruling alliance’s applicants.
“The Speaker has confident us of taking a look into it,” he added.
The senior Congress chief puzzled the AIUDF naming its agent for the election with out consulting the opposite events within the Opposition camp.
“They mysteriously introduced their polling agent with out even informing us. Why they did this can be a riddle to me,” he stated.
Saikia maintained that the Congress’ agent for the polls, Prithviraj Sathe, used to be named by means of the celebration’s central management, which used to be accepted by means of the state’s legislature celebration to appoint the polling agent.
