Rejecting allegations of cross-voting by the ruling National Conference (NC) MLAs in the polling for four Rajya Sabha seats from Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister and NC vice-president Omar Abdullah on Friday said that the party’s votes had remained intact and questioned where the four extra votes for BJP president Sat Sharma came from.
Congress MP Manish Tewari called for a serious investigation by each INDIA alliance constituent.
State Chief Minister Thakur Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu accused the BJP of kidnapping around six Congress MLAs.
The electoral loss has badly embarrassed the ruling YSRCP although six of the seven candidates fielded by it won as MLC.
Few leaders strongly believe that the only solution is that the party nominates genuine and original Congressmen with a clean slate sans any criminal cases.
A total of 4,754 votes were cast for the Presidential election, the process of which concluded on Thursday with the declaration of result.
BJP leaders say LDF and UDF have been resorting to unethical practice as they consider the saffron party their main adversary
