The confrontation between the two sides was visible as soon as the House met and repeated clashes forced the Chair to adjourn the House till tomorrow. If BJP was pitted against ally NPP in Manipur, they were together in Meghalaya and in Mizoram, BJP lone MLA abstained from voting either for or against ally MNF.New Delhi: Rajya Sabha was thrown into turmoil on Tuesday as BJP and Congress members clashed over alleged irregularities in the telecom sector and WikiLeaks expose, derailing an important calling attention on nuclear safety in the country in the backdrop of Japan quake. BJP won the lone Arunachal Pradesh seat without any contest.īut, the elections had varied characteristics in Mizoram, Meghalaya and Mizoram. However, none of the delegates disclosed the outcome of the meeting to reporters waiting outside Raj Bhavan.Įarlier, SPF had written a letter to the governor urging her to summon a special session of the Assembly to take up no confidence motion against the BJP-led coalition government.Īgencies: BJP and its allies grabbed the four Rajya Sabha seats in the four North Eastern states and increased its tally to eight out of a total of 13 seats in the region.Įxcept for Manipur, where BJP had to fight off a fierce political battle against Congress before its ‘royal’ candidate, the titular king of Manipur, Leishemba Sanajaoba emerged victorious, its two partners had easy victories in each seat in Meghalaya and Mizoram where simultaneous elections were held on Friday. Till Thursday, the effective strength of the Assembly was 49 as one MLA had already been disqualified and seven barred from entering the Assembly premises by the high court, while three BJP MLAs defected to Congress after having resigned as MLAs.Ī delegation of Congress-led newly-formed Secular Progressive Front (SPF) led by its leader O Ibobi Singh met governor Najma Heptulla at Raj Bhavan at around 5 pm.īesides Ibobi and some Congress leaders, the delegation comprised NPP State president Thangminlien Kipgen and party’s legislative leader Y Joykumar. Earlier, he had listed the hearing for June 22.Īnother interesting development ahead of the poll was the disqualification of the lone Trinamool Congress MLA who withdrew support to the BJP-led coalition government and was prevented from casting his vote. In order to overcome this, the speaker advanced the hearing to Thursday. However, the speaker pronounced the judgment of the pending disqualification ahead of the poll by disqualifying three MLAs who returned to the Congress, despite another order of the high court on Thursday restraining him from passing any ruling on the case till Friday. The High Court of Manipur had restrained the seven MLAs facing disqualification from entering the Assembly premises, pending the final decision by the speaker’s tribunal. Interestingly, four of the seven Congress MLAs facing disqualification were allowed to cast votes. Sources said the complaint was disposed of with the knowledge of Election Commission of India (ECI), where the complaint was forwarded to.
The counting was held around 8 pm and results declared at around 8.30 pm. The complaint is therefore disposed of,” the RO’s order stated and paved the way for counting of votes. I’m convinced that there is no violation of the secrecy and that the complaint is baseless.
“I was present during the poll process and have reconfirmed the allegation through the video recording of the poll process. However the RO dismissed the allegations as baseless. The counting of votes was delayed after polling agents of NPP lodged a complaint with returning officer (RO) alleging violation of secrecy of voting by BJP Speaker Khemchand Singh and Ngamthang Haokip of Congress. under tight security at the Legislative Assembly complex against the backdrop of political turmoil when nine MLAs, including four cabinet ministers belonging to NPP, withdrew support to the BJP-led coalition government. Voting commenced at 9 am and ended at 4 p.m. The BJP candidate Sanajaoba got 28 votes while his rival Congress candidate T Mangibabu got 24 votes out of the total 52 votes cast. Dealing a big blow to the plan of the newly formed Secular Progressive Front (SPF) of winning the lone Rajya Sabha seat, the BJP candidate and Manipur’s titular king RK Sanajaoba won seat in the poll held Friday even as and counting of votes was delayed beyond the scheduled 5 p.m.