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Congress candidate Abhishek Manu Singhvi lost the lone Rajya Sabha seat in Himachal Pradesh, where his party is in power, to BJP's Harsh Mahajan..
When a 25-member party fields a candidate against a 43-member party, there is just one message -- we will shamelessly do that which is not permitted by the law," Abhishek Singhvi said while speaking to reporters...
It is a major jolt for the Congress which has 40 MLAs in the 68-member state assembly and claimed support of the independents..
The result made it clear that nine MLAs voted in favour of the BJP which was confident that Congress MLAs would exercise 'conscience vote'...
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27, Feb, 24Despite having a clear majority with 40 out of 68 seats in the Himachal Pradesh Assembly, Congress's Abhishek Manu Singhvi lost to BJP's Harsh Mahajan due to cross-voting by own party MLAs.