MP News: Political Equations Changing Before Rajya Sabha Polls, 2 Congress MLAs In Trouble

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): As the Rajya Sabha elections in the state are nearing, the political equations are changing.

The court has stopped the Congress legislator from the Vijaypur constituency Mukesh Malhotra from casting his vote in any election as a member of the Assembly.

The MP-MLA court in Delhi has awarded a three-year jail term to party legislator from the Datia constituency, Rajendra Bharti.

If Bharti cannot obtain a stay from the high court of the Supreme Court, he may lose his Assembly membership.

The Congress has 65 legislators in the house, and if Bharti fails to obtain a stay, the party will be left with in 63 members.

Bina legislator Nirmala Sapre may have said in the court that she is with the Congress, but her closeness to the BJP leaders indicates on whose side she will be in the Rajya Sabha election.

Although two Congress legislators are toiling hard to save their Assembly members, the party is safe for time being.

The Congress needs 58 votes to win a Rajya Sabha seat, and it has 62 legislators, but it is still worried.

Keeping in mind the problems the Congress legislators are facing, the BJP is planning to field a candidate for the RS elections for the third seat.

If the BJP fields a candidate for the third seat in the RS election, there will be a fight.

The Leader of Opposition, Umang Singhar, said the BJP's intentions regarding the RS election had become clear.

The ruling party is trying to engineer defection in the party and buy legislators to win the election, he said.

Since they have failed to carry out their plans, they have picked an old issue, he said.

According to Singhar, some old cases against party legislators Abhay Mishra and Arif Masood are being brought back.

''It is not democracy, but misuse of power,'' he said.