3 Congress MLAs Meet Vijay Rupani, Spark Defection Rumours Ahead Of Rajya Sabha Polls

Ahmedabad:

Forward of the Rajya Sabha polls in Gujarat scheduled later this month, 3 Congress MLAs on Wednesday held conferences with Leader Minister Vijay Rupani and Deputy Leader Minister Nitin Patel at Gandhinagar, triggering speculations of defection.

Then again, those opposition MLAs refuted the rumours and claimed that they went to make a illustration about quite a lot of problems associated with coronavirus and lockdown.

Congress legislators Kirit Patel, Lalit Vasoya and Lalit Kagathara met the Leader Minister and his deputy on the state secretariat in Gandhinagar on Wednesday afternoon.

When requested about their unexpected assembly with the leaders of the ruling BJP, Kirit Patel, who represents Patan Meeting seat, stated none of them is becoming a member of the ruling birthday celebration.

“We went to satisfy Deputy CM after which Rupani with some calls for. All through our meet with Nitin Patel, I prompt him to increase the mattress capability of Dharpur clinic in Patan in order that extra choice of coronavirus sufferers from north Gujarat can also be handled there,” Mr Patel advised newshounds.

Mr Kagathara and Mr Vasoya stated that they demanded withdrawal of instances lodged towards folks, particularly farmers, throughout the lockdown.

“There is not any query of becoming a member of the BJP. Vasoya and I met Nitin Patel and the CM, particularly to call for withdrawal of instances lodged towards hundreds of folks for lockdown violations. Many farmers had been additionally booked in such instances. Within the coming days, our birthday celebration may be making plans to absorb this reason,” they stated.

The Rajya Sabha election for 4 seats in Gujarat has been scheduled on June 19. It used to be meant to be hung on March
26. Then again, it used to be in the end postponed for an indefinite length within the wake of coronavirus pandemic and next imposition of nation-wide lockdown.

Whilst the Congress has fielded two applicants, BJP has fielded 3, making it tricky for the previous to win the second one seat.

In March, 5 Congress legislators had tendered their resignations, days after the elections had been introduced.

This had additional decreased the Congress’s probabilities of keeping each the seats.

Within the 182-member Meeting, BJP has 103 MLAs and the opposition Congress 68.

The Bharatiya Tribal Birthday celebration has two MLAs, and Nationalist Congress Birthday celebration one.

One MLA is Unbiased whilst seven seats are vacant; two because of courtroom instances whilst 5 because of the resignations.