Presidential polls: Voted based on my conscience, says insurgent Congress MLA Kuldeep Bishnoi

By PTI

CHANDIGARH/NEW DELHI: Haryana Congress MLA Kuldeep Bishnoi, who cross-voted in final month’s Rajya Sabha polls, on Monday mentioned he has voted based on his conscience within the presidential election too.

Indicating that he supported NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu fairly than the opposition’s Yashwant Sinha, Bishnoi mentioned in Delhi, “Like in Rajya Sabha, I have cast my vote in this election too as per my conscience”.

When reporters requested about his future plan of action, he mentioned, “I will reveal that soon.”

“The Congress is no longer the party as it was during Indira ji or Rajiv ji’s time,” he mentioned, claiming that frequent employees and even senior “don’t get that respect in the Congress now”.

He mentioned Congress leaders, with whom he has private relations, preserve telling him that he shouldn’t go away the celebration.

Before the Rajya Sabha polls too, Bishnoi, the youthful son of former Haryana chief minister Bhajan Lal, had mentioned he would go by his conscience.

The system of secret poll is adopted within the presidential election, and events can not subject whips to their MPs and MLAs.

While different Haryana MLAs have been exercising their franchise on the Vidhan Sabha complicated in Chandigarh, Bishnoi had sought permission to solid his vote at Parliament House.

The 53-year-old legislator from Adampur had met Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP chief J P Nadda in New Delhi lately and later heaped praises on them.

Bishnoi, a four-time MLA and a two-time MP, has been sulking ever for the reason that Congress ignored him for the put up of its Haryana unit chief throughout a revamp earlier this 12 months.

The celebration appointed Udai Bhan, a loyalist of former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, as its Haryana president.

Bishnoi was expelled from all celebration positions on June 11 for not following the celebration line within the Rajya Sabha elections.

“The 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 and acted on my morals,” he had then tweeted in response.

Last month, Bishnoi mentioned he was consulting his supporters to determine his subsequent plan of action.

Earlier, the Adampur MLA and a outstanding non-Jat face in Haryana, Bishnoi had batted for selling younger faces with a “mass base” to strengthen the celebration.

He had earlier described Jyotiraditya Scindia’s exit from the celebration as an enormous blow and mentioned there are a lot of devoted leaders throughout the nation who really feel “alienated, wasted and discontented”.

In the current Rajya Sabha election, the Congress, which is the principle opposition celebration in Haryana, was assured of 1 seat by advantage of the variety of MLAs it has within the 90-member meeting.

However, Congress candidate Ajay Maken did not safe the berth after Bishnoi cross-voted, whereas one other MLA’s vote was declared invalid.

BJP’s Krishan Lal Panwar and the saffron party-backed Independent candidate Kartikeya Sharma have been elected to the 2 Rajya Sabha seats from Haryana for which the election was held final month.

CHANDIGARH/NEW DELHI: Haryana Congress MLA Kuldeep Bishnoi, who cross-voted in final month’s Rajya Sabha polls, on Monday mentioned he has voted based on his conscience within the presidential election too.

Indicating that he supported NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu fairly than the opposition’s Yashwant Sinha, Bishnoi mentioned in Delhi, “Like in Rajya Sabha, I have cast my vote in this election too as per my conscience”.

When reporters requested about his future plan of action, he mentioned, “I will reveal that soon.”

“The Congress is no longer the party as it was during Indira ji or Rajiv ji’s time,” he mentioned, claiming that frequent employees and even senior “don’t get that respect in the Congress now”.

He mentioned Congress leaders, with whom he has private relations, preserve telling him that he shouldn’t go away the celebration.

Before the Rajya Sabha polls too, Bishnoi, the youthful son of former Haryana chief minister Bhajan Lal, had mentioned he would go by his conscience.

The system of secret poll is adopted within the presidential election, and events can not subject whips to their MPs and MLAs.

While different Haryana MLAs have been exercising their franchise on the Vidhan Sabha complicated in Chandigarh, Bishnoi had sought permission to solid his vote at Parliament House.

The 53-year-old legislator from Adampur had met Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP chief J P Nadda in New Delhi lately and later heaped praises on them.

Bishnoi, a four-time MLA and a two-time MP, has been sulking ever for the reason that Congress ignored him for the put up of its Haryana unit chief throughout a revamp earlier this 12 months.

The celebration appointed Udai Bhan, a loyalist of former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, as its Haryana president.

Bishnoi was expelled from all celebration positions on June 11 for not following the celebration line within the Rajya Sabha elections.

“The 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 and acted on my morals,” he had then tweeted in response.

Last month, Bishnoi mentioned he was consulting his supporters to determine his subsequent plan of action.

Earlier, the Adampur MLA and a outstanding non-Jat face in Haryana, Bishnoi had batted for selling younger faces with a “mass base” to strengthen the celebration.

He had earlier described Jyotiraditya Scindia’s exit from the celebration as an enormous blow and mentioned there are a lot of devoted leaders throughout the nation who really feel “alienated, wasted and discontented”.

In the current Rajya Sabha election, the Congress, which is the principle opposition celebration in Haryana, was assured of 1 seat by advantage of the variety of MLAs it has within the 90-member meeting.

However, Congress candidate Ajay Maken did not safe the berth after Bishnoi cross-voted, whereas one other MLA’s vote was declared invalid.

BJP’s Krishan Lal Panwar and the saffron party-backed Independent candidate Kartikeya Sharma have been elected to the 2 Rajya Sabha seats from Haryana for which the election was held final month.