Rajya Sabha poll: Congress expels 6 UP MLAsfor cross voting in RS Polls, Uttar Pradesh, Rajya Sabha elections Uttar Pradesh,Janardan Dwivedi, Preeti Mahapatra,UP RS Polls 2016
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Rajya Sabha poll: Congress expels 6 UP MLAsfor cross voting in RS Polls, Uttar Pradesh, Rajya Sabha elections Uttar Pradesh,Janardan Dwivedi, Preeti Mahapatra,UP RS Polls 2016
The Congress Party on Tuesday expelled six MLAs in Uttar Pradesh for cross voting during the Rajya Sabha Elections.
Congress leader Janardan Dwivedi confirmed the news.
The MLAs who have been expelled for six years are Sanjay Pratap Jayaswal (Basti district), Madhuri Verma (Bahraich), Vijay Dube (Kushinagar), Mohammed Muslim (Tiloi-Amethi), Dil Nawaz Khan (Bulandshahar) and Nawab Kasim Ali Khan (Rampur).
Sibal edged past Preeti Mahapatra, put up by BJP in a cliffhanger and secured his Rajya Sabha berth with support from other parties.
With only 25 first preference votes to his credit and his final tally adding up to 34, Sibal fared only marginally better than his MLC colleague Deepak Singh did in the UP legislative council polls on Friday.
Azad, who is now AICC general secretary in charge of Uttar Pradesh, said while three of the six expelled MLAs voted in favour of the BJP, three others sided with the BSP.
src:TOI