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, an ailing MLA being airlifted, a tie resolved by draw of lots resulting in a loss for Congress: Tuesday's election to the lone Rajya Sabha seat in Himachal was full of drama and set the stage for BJP to mount a. against the Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu govt, and triggered calls from within for the exit of the CM...
But BJP's Harsh Mahajan, ended up with 34 votes, as six Congress MLAs cross-voted..
Cross-voting cost Congress Himachal Pradesh's lone Rajya Sabha seat on Tuesday, with its nominee Abhishek Manu Singhvi losing to BJP's Harsh Mahajan in a draw of lots after the vote ended in a tie and left the door ajar for the saffron party to mount a possible no-confidence move against the Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu govt in a couple of days...
Six Congress MLAs cross-voted along with three Independents and later claimed that a total of 26 MLAs were unhappy with Sukhu, setting the stage for a potential leadership change in the party...
While the outcome of draw of lots was the unkindest cut for Congress after the cross-voting shock,. it would have also hurt that Mahajan, a loyalist of former CM Virbhadra Singh, had been the party's election manager in HP for decades before switching to BJP ahead of the 2022 polls...
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