Raipur, July, 23, 2012
AICC general secretary and state Congress incharge BK Hariprasada is likely to hold talks with PCC chief Nandkumar Patel and CLP leader Ravindra Choubey regarding cross voting during presidential polls which held on July 19. Hariprasada will reach Raipur on Tuesday evening. At night, he will proceed to Ambikapur via train route to attend party's two-day worker's training camp beginning July 25.
The party is embarrassed after two of its legislators was said to have done cross voting during the presidential polls.
While the BJP has 49 MLAs in the state, the Congress has 39 and BSP has two. On the polling day, the BJP-led NDA backed presidential candidate PA Sangma received 50 votes while one of the Congress-led UPA candidate Pranab Mukherjee got 39 votes from Chhattisgarh. Later, one of the votes was declared invalid.
The two of the BSP legislators have clarified that they had followed party high command’s instructions and had voted to Mukherjee. Now, the Congress is in dilemma as which of its two MLAs had voted for Sangma.
Although, Mukherjee has won presidential elections, the state Congress is concerned over the growing intimacy of some of its MLAs with the ruling party. The party has recently suspended its senior tribal leader Arvind Netam for favouring Sangma and now it had to face the ‘cross voting ignominy’, about which it had hoped the least.
Hariprasada is likely to warn party MLAs in particular and workers in general to concentrate in beefing up the state unit instead of befriending with ruling party members.
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