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Ten more Congress legislators rushed to Bengaluru resort as party tries to keep flock together
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Ten more Congress legislators rushed to Bengaluru resort as party tries to keep flock together

| | 29 Jul 2017, 11:44 am
Ahmedabad, Jul 29 (IBNS) : In a bid to prevent horsetrading with their legislators ahead of the August eight Rajya Sabha elections, the Congress has flown in ten more MLAs from Gujarat to a Bengaluru resort as the party goes jittery after resignations of six of its MLAs as a result of a crafty political manoeuvre by former leader ShankerSinh Vaghela.

According to media reports, the Congress leadership on Friday had already flocked together 30 legislators in the same resort.

The Congress had earlier accused the BJP of indulging in horse trading in a bid to weaken the party ahead of the Rajya Sabha and state Assembly elections, scheduled later this year.

The party apprehends tha further exodus of MLAs will stall the return of senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel to the Rajya Sabha- a design Vaghela, who quit the party recently, allegedly has in mind.

Congress leader Arjun Modhwadia told reporters at Ahmadabad airport that it was a question of the security of MLAs and they were being taken to a safe place.

According to reports, Congressmen formed a cordon around the MLAs as they stepped off a bus at the airport.

Following the resignations, the strength of the  Gujarat Assembly has come down to 176 and that of Congress to   51.

A candidate requires  44 votes to win given the current strength of the Assembly where the BJP has a strength of 121.

The BJP has nominated Amit Shah, Smriti Irani and former Congressman  Balwantsinh Rajput for the three vacant Rajya Sabha seats, while the Congress has again nominated Ahmed Patel, the political secretary to Sonia Gandhi.

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