Now, Rajasthan BJP moves its MLAs on fears of poaching

The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has shifted no less than 17 of its Rajasthan lawmakers to Gujarat’s Porbandar since Friday forward of the beginning of the state meeting session from August 14 amid the disaster chief minister Ashok Gehlot’s authorities faces together with his former deputy Sachin Pilot’s revolt.

The shifting of the lawmakers started on Friday, when 12 of them had been despatched to Porbandar. Five extra legislators had been flown on a chartered flight from Jaipur. BJP leaders mentioned the Congress was attempting to strategy their legislators, particularly these from Mewar’s tribal belt, to win their help.

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“We had an input that the Congress was approaching our legislators in the Udaipur division through administrative officers and other influential people of the area. So we decided that they should all be at one place where they can be protected,” mentioned state BJP president Satish Poonia. Another celebration chief mentioned there was an effort to strategy “weak legislators”.

“We alerted our MLAs [members of legislative assembly] before August 6 and told them to be together,” mentioned BJP chief Gulab Chand Kataria, who’s from south Rajasthan. “The Congress government is set to fall and the party is approaching our legislators for support. So we have to protect our people.”

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The Gehlot camp has claimed the help of 101 legislators within the 200-member meeting. Eighty-six Congress, 14 Independents, and legislators from smaller events supporting the ruling celebration are at two lodges in Jaisalmer. State Congress president Govind Singh Dotasra denied the BJP’s allegation. “There is no danger to our government and we do not indulge in horse-trading, which is an exclusive domain of the BJP,” he mentioned.