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Lucknow: Seven Samajwadi Party (SP) MLAs cross-voted while one abstained in the Rajya Sabha biennial polls in Uttar Pradesh Tuesday to ensure the victory of a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate, who was falling short by eight votes...
The BJP, however, fielded an eighth candidate, Sanjay Seth, at the last moment, forcing a contest...
Speaking to ThePrint, SP spokesperson Udayveer Singh said that their party candidates got a total of 101 votes, of which one was declared as invalid because the mark could not be identified properly...
While SP had first decided to make Alok Ranjan as the second preference candidate, a senior party leader told ThePrint that ally Apna Dal (K) MLA Pallavi Patels insistence on voting for a candidate from the PDA (pichhda, Dalit, alpsankhyak) grouping forced the change...
When an MLA votes in the Rajya Sabha polls, he fills in the ballot paper with the names of the candidates from the different parties in the fray and marks preference against each candidate..
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