First 'resort politics' was in 80s, saw Shawshank-style escape

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After Jharkhand MLAs, now Bihar Congress legislators have been cooped up at a Hyderabad resort..

The 'resort retreat' of the Bihar Congress MLAs coincided with the return of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), the Congress and the Rashtriya Janta Dal (RJD) coalition MLAs from Hyderabad, Telangana...

The political tussle in Jharkhand and Nitish Kumar changing sides in Bihar has brought forward new instances of 'resort politics' in India...

As a result, in a bid to safeguard his legislators from being lured away by the Congress, Devi Lal, who wished to come back to power, whisked away a group of 48 MLAs, including members from both the INLD and BJP and a few Independents, to a hotel in Parwanoo in Himachal Pradesh's Solan, said senior journalist NP Ullekh in his blog...

Back in 1983, the then Karnataka Chief Minister Ramakrishna Hegde sent about 80 MLAs of the Janata Party to a luxury resort on the outskirts of Bengaluru to prevent then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi from dissolving the Assembly..

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