Haryana Congress MLAs on Thursday, 2 June, reached the Delhi airport from MP Deepender Singh Hooda's residence, after the party decided to shift them to Chhattisgarh to prevent the possibility of cross-voting ahead of the 10 June Rajya Sabha elections.
"They will attend shivir. As far as Rajya Sabha elections are concerned, numbers will be more than the strength of Congress legislative party. BJP should take care of JJP and the Independent MLAs that are supporting them," Hooda was quoted as saying by ANI.
"In Haryana, the BJP-JJP government should be afraid, some of the MLAs supporting them have lost faith in the government. They are trying hard to keep their flock together. We are 100% confident," he added.
"No MLA is upset. All MLAs will go there (to Chhattisgarh). I want to tell the BJP that it should keep its Haryana MLAs safe," he had said earlier.
This move by the Congress comes after three independent MLAs reportedly declared their support for media baron Subhash Chandra after he filed his nomination as an independent candidate with the support of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Meanwhile, Haryana Congress incharge Vivek Bansal said, "Twenty-eight MLAs are going for Chintan and Prashikshan Shivir. Out of the 28 MLAs, MLA Kiran Chaudhary and two others will also join us later."
Earlier, Bansal had said, "Haryana Congress MLAs have arrived at the residence of MP Deepender Singh Hooda. The bus is here, we all will go somewhere, but the destination will be known later. All MLAs are united."
Meanwhile, Harayana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar commented on matter, saying, "One should always play in the spirit of the game."
Rajasthan Congress Sends MLAs to Udaipur Resort
Earlier in the day, the Congress party in Rajasthan sent its MLAs to a resort in Udaipur.
While several MLAs in Rajasthan had already reached the resort in Udaipur where the Congress recently held its Chintan Shivir, the remaining MLAs have also been asked to get to the resort by the night of Thursday, 2 June, sources told The Quint.
The BJP is also planning to tighten its hold on the MLAs of its own party, its allies and independents, sources said. The party has reportedly asked its MLAs to attend an induction session on the Rajya Sabha polls, on 6 June.
Congress' One Person, One Post Policy
Meanwhile, several Rajasthan Congress leaders had to step down from their respective party positions on Wednesday after the party's 'One Person, One Post' policy came into force during the recently held Chintan Shivir.
The vice-presidents of the party's state unit – Mahendrajit Singh Malviya, Ramlal Jat, and Govind Meghwal – resigned on Wednesday after securing ministerial posts, Rajasthan Congress President Govind Singh Dotasra said in a statement.
The party's national spokesperson and Rajasthan unit's farmer wing president, Sandeep Chaudhary, also resigned after receiving the chairmanship of a state board.
(With inputs from ANI.)
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