Who’s the traitor? After the declaration of the presidential ballot outcomes, Assam is counting the variety of “gaddaars”. Chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday mentioned that of the 22 opposition MLAs of the state who voted for Nationwide Democratic Alliance (NDA) nominee Droupadi Murmu defying their celebration traces, 15-16 are from the Congress.
Altogether 124 MLAs of the 126-member Assam legislative meeting exercised their franchise within the presidential polls on July 18, whereas two legislators from the All India United Democratic Entrance (AIUDF) have been exterior the nation.
In comparison with the NDA’s energy of 79 within the Home, Murmu secured 104 votes, whereas joint opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha acquired 20. There are 44 opposition MLAs within the state meeting, the place the Congress’s quantity is now 24 (three of its legislators have been expelled for anti-party actions). The Badruddin Ajmal-led AIUDF has 27 MLAs, BPF has three (now sharing ground coordination with BJP within the meeting), CPI(M) has one, and one other is an unbiased MLA.
Of the 22 “further” votes that the NDA candidate acquired, “15 to 16 are from the Congress, three to 4 from the AIUDF, and the remaining could also be from unbiased or different events”, Sarma mentioned in Delhi.
The chief minister had pointed to the cross-voting by opposition MLAs by way of a tweet. “Droupadi Murmu polled 104 votes in comparison with NDA’s authentic energy of 79 within the 126 member Assam Meeting. 2 absent. My heartfelt gratitude to the folks of Assam for reposing their religion within the NDA’s Presidential candidate & wholeheartedly becoming a member of this historic second,” he wrote.
AIUDF basic secretary and MLA Karim Uddin Barbhuiya mentioned Assam’s chief of opposition (LOP) Debabrata Saikia spearheaded the cross-voting of Congress MLAs for Murmu. Chatting with News18 on Friday, he alleged that Saikia met chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma together with over 20 Congress legislators on the presidential ballot day on July 18 simply after they forged their votes. Expressing resentment with the state Congress management, he lamented that the Sonia Gandhi-led celebration was preventing the AIUDF as an alternative of the ruling BJP.
“After voting, Debabrata Saikia took 22-23 MLAs to the chief minister, had tea, engaged in banter, and mentioned schemes. He welcomed him like he was his guru. That is within the public area,” Barbhuiya added.
Condemning the Congress, he mentioned, “Gaurav Gogoi is environment friendly. He is an efficient parliamentarian, has a very good picture, and is the son of former CM Tarun Gogoi. I don’t know why the AICC has put him there underneath lock and key. Congress ought to have fought with the BJP. However it’s preventing with the AIUDF. AICC ought to give the cost of the state to Gaurav Gogoi.”
Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president Bhupen Kumar Borah admitted that six MLAs of his celebration voted for the NDA’s nominee. Chatting with reporters, he mentioned, “It’s very unlucky that just a few of our MLAs voted for the NDA candidate. We’re going to look at the cross-voting and, undoubtedly, we are going to take robust motion in opposition to the betrayers.”
Debabrata Saikia too admitted this. “Sure, it’s very unlucky for us. I feel 4 or extra Congress MLAs voted in favour of the NDA candidate. However we couldn’t determine the cross-voters as a result of confidential system of the presidential ballot.”
BJP sources mentioned round 125 MLAs from completely different assemblies cross-voted for Droupadi Murmu. The counting of votes additionally means that Murmu was the beneficiary of cross-voting from 17 MPs. Assam, Jharkhand, and Madhya Pradesh assemblies witnessed a big variety of opposition MLAs voting for the BJP-led NDA candidate.
Round 22 MLAs in Assam and 20 in Madhya Pradesh are more likely to have cross-voted. Six opposition MLAs every from Bihar and Chhattisgarh, 4 from Goa, and 10 from Gujarat may have voted for Murmu.
Murmu’s tribal background appeared to have drawn assist from opposition MLAs from Jharkhand too, the place the ruling JMM had already introduced assist for her.
All MLAs from Andhra Pradesh, the place the ruling YSR Congress, in addition to the opposition TDP, had pledged assist to Murmu, voted for her. Then again, Yashwant Sinha swept all votes from Kerala MLAs because the ruling Left and the opposition Congress had each supported him. Murmu additionally acquired all of the votes from the Sikkim and Nagaland assemblies.
Murmu received by an awesome margin in opposition to Sinha, receiving over 64 per cent of legitimate votes forged by MPs and MLAs, comprising the Electoral Faculty, to succeed Ram Nath Kovid to change into the nation’s fifteenth president.
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