After Jyotiraditya Scindia Transfer, BJP Eyes Bonus Rajya Sabha Seat
From the BJP for Rajya Sabha, it’ll be Jyotiraditya Scindia and Sumer Singh Solanki
New Delhi:
After its acquisition of Jyotiraditya Scindia, one of the most Congress’s most sensible leaders in Madhya Pradesh, the BJP is aiming for now not one, however two Rajya Sabha seats. But even so pronouncing the high-profile defector for one Rajya Sabha seat, the BJP additionally named a 2d candidate.
On Thursday, senior Congress chief Digvijaya Singh filed his nomination for the Rajya Sabha election on March 26. From the BJP, it’ll be Jyotiraditya Scindia and Sumer Singh Solanki.
Simply days in the past, the 3 Rajya Seats in Madhya Pradesh due for elections have been tipped to be break up two to at least one between the Congress and the BJP.
The Congress used to be nearly positive to win two seats and the BJP, one, within the election this is in keeping with vote casting through MLAs.
The placement modified after Jyotiraditya Scindia’s surprising transfer from the Congress to the BJP the previous day. The transfer got here with an advantage for the BJP — 22 Congress MLAs prepared to apply their “Maharaj”. That brings the potential of now not simply toppling the Kamal Nath executive with its shaky majority, but additionally successful a 2d seat within the Rajya Sabha, the place the federal government is in a minority.
Assets within the BJP say the general collection of defectors from the Congress might be 26.
One of the vital causes for Mr Scindia’s walkout of the Congress after 18 years used to be a Rajya Sabha seat. The Congress management reportedly denied him a sure-shot Rajya Sabha seat. The race used to be between him and Digvijaya Singh.
“There used to be no downside with a Rajya Sabha seat. If I knew Scindia sought after a Rajya Sabha price ticket, I’d have given it to him,” stated Mr Singh as of late.
“However we may have best made him Rajya Sabha MP, we could not have made him a minister,” added the previous leader minister, regarding reviews that once he turns into a Rajya Sabha member, he can be given a place in High Minister Narendra Modi’s cupboard.
