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Shimla: A day after the ruling Congress was defeated in the election to a Rajya Sabha seat from Himachal Pradesh, assembly speaker Kuldeep Singh Pathania expelled 15 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs..
Chaos reigned in the Himachal Vidhan Sabha when the Speaker asked marshals to escort the 15 MLAs including former chief minister Jai Ram Thakur out of the House after the Congress introduced a motion for their expulsion.The remaining MLAs also eventually walked out of the House, paving the way for the Congress government to pass its budget...
Thakur and his party had been claiming that the Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu-led government is now in the minority after six Congress MLAs and three Independents who were previously supporting the government cross-voted in the Rajya Sabha election held Tuesday..
Meanwhile, the six cross-voting Congress MLAs Sudhir Sharma, Rajinder Rana, Chaitanya Sharma, Davinder Bhutto, I.D. Lakhanpal and Ravi Thakur and the three Independents, Ashish Kumar, KL Thakur, and Hoshyar Singh, were accompanied by two BJP MLAs to an undisclosed location in Haryanas Panchkula Tuesday evening but eventually came back to the assembly...
The developments come at a time of a festering factional war between Sukhu and Himachal Congress president Pratibha Singh and cast uncertainty over the Congress partys lone government in north India..
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