Team News Riveting
Haryana, June 11
A day after losing the Rajya Sabha election in Haryana following a cross-voting, the Congress expelled its legislator Kuldeep Bishnoi from all party positions on Saturday.
The Haryana Congress has alleged that Bishnoi, an MLA from the Adampur constituency in Hisar, did not follow the party whip. Instead of voting for party candidate Ajay Maken, he cross-voted in favour of Independent candidate Kartikeya Sharma, who was supported by the ruling BJP-JJP combine.
The Congress had 31 MLA and needed as many votes to win the Rajya Sabha seat from Haryana, but one of its legislators cross-voted and another’s vote was cancelled.
“The Congress president has expelled Kuldeep Bishnoi from all his present party positions, including the post of special invitee of the Congress Working Committee, with immediate effect,” a statement from AICC general secretary K C Venugopal said.
After expelled from the party, Bishnoi has lashed out at Congress’s senior leadership for not acting against indiscipline in the past and having different parameters for different leaders. “Had @incindia acted this swiftly & strongly in 2016 & on every other critical opportunity they’ve missed, they wouldn’t have been in such dire straits. Congress also has rules for some leaders and exceptions for others. Rules are applied selectively. Indiscipline has been repeatedly ignored in the past. In my case, I listened to my soul & acted on my morals,” Bishnoi tweeted.
