Presidential polls: Cross-voting fears in Maharashtra Congress, NCP

By PTI

MUMBAI: As lawmakers from Maharashtra gear as much as vote on Monday to elect the nation’s subsequent president, there are considerations among the many opposition events over the potential of cross-voting.

MLAs and MPs kind the electoral school to elect the President of India.

The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Congress – the 2 principal opposition events in Maharashtra – have already held conferences with their legislators to make sure there isn’t a any cross-voting in favour of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance’s candidate Droupadi Murmu.

The opposition is worried as Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Sunday claimed that Murmu would get the help of 200 MLAs from the state.

“We will manage to get the votes of 200 MLAs for Droupadi Murmu. We want a very comfortable win for her,”” he mentioned.

Former Union minister Yashwant Sinha is the candidate of the Opposition.

Notably, cross-voting was held in the course of the Rajya Sabha elections and the Maharashtra Legislative Council polls final month.

All 5 candidates of the BJP had gained the Legislative Council polls held for 10 seats, whereas with its personal numbers the BJP might have gained solely 4 seats.

The Shiv Sena and the NCP gained two seats every, whereas the Congress might solely bag one seat.

“There are some considerations within the NCP and Congress over guarding their votes.

“The Congress already faced an embarrassment in the Legislative Council election when one of its candidate lost against the BJP. We do not want it to happen again,”” a senior Congress chief mentioned.

The BJP at the moment has 106 MLAs within the 288-member Maharashtra Assembly together with 40 MLAs belonging to the Eknath Shinde faction of the Shiv Sena, apart from 10 independents who help the BJP.

““Without cross-voting, Murmu cannot get the votes of 200 MLAs, as claimed by CM Shinde. If Murmu gets 200 votes, it will be a further setback for the Congress, NCP and the Shiv Sena,” a political analyst mentioned.

The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena with 15 MLAs has introduced help for Murmu.

The NCP and Congress have 53 and 44 MLAs, respectively.

Of the entire 48 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra, 23 MPs belong to the BJP, 18 to Shiv Sena, 4 to NCP, and one to Congress.

Of the remaining two MPs, one belongs to the All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and one other is Independent.

Various political events within the state are additionally taking additional efforts to make sure not one of the votes forged by their MLAs and MPs flip invalid within the presidential election.

MUMBAI: As lawmakers from Maharashtra gear as much as vote on Monday to elect the nation’s subsequent president, there are considerations among the many opposition events over the potential of cross-voting.

MLAs and MPs kind the electoral school to elect the President of India.

The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Congress – the 2 principal opposition events in Maharashtra – have already held conferences with their legislators to make sure there isn’t a any cross-voting in favour of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance’s candidate Droupadi Murmu.

The opposition is worried as Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Sunday claimed that Murmu would get the help of 200 MLAs from the state.

“We will manage to get the votes of 200 MLAs for Droupadi Murmu. We want a very comfortable win for her,”” he mentioned.

Former Union minister Yashwant Sinha is the candidate of the Opposition.

Notably, cross-voting was held in the course of the Rajya Sabha elections and the Maharashtra Legislative Council polls final month.

All 5 candidates of the BJP had gained the Legislative Council polls held for 10 seats, whereas with its personal numbers the BJP might have gained solely 4 seats.

The Shiv Sena and the NCP gained two seats every, whereas the Congress might solely bag one seat.

“There are some considerations within the NCP and Congress over guarding their votes.

“The Congress already faced an embarrassment in the Legislative Council election when one of its candidate lost against the BJP. We do not want it to happen again,”” a senior Congress chief mentioned.

The BJP at the moment has 106 MLAs within the 288-member Maharashtra Assembly together with 40 MLAs belonging to the Eknath Shinde faction of the Shiv Sena, apart from 10 independents who help the BJP.

““Without cross-voting, Murmu cannot get the votes of 200 MLAs, as claimed by CM Shinde. If Murmu gets 200 votes, it will be a further setback for the Congress, NCP and the Shiv Sena,” a political analyst mentioned.

The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena with 15 MLAs has introduced help for Murmu.

The NCP and Congress have 53 and 44 MLAs, respectively.

Of the entire 48 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra, 23 MPs belong to the BJP, 18 to Shiv Sena, 4 to NCP, and one to Congress.

Of the remaining two MPs, one belongs to the All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and one other is Independent.

Various political events within the state are additionally taking additional efforts to make sure not one of the votes forged by their MLAs and MPs flip invalid within the presidential election.