Odisha Congress to pursue alleged attempts to bribe its MLAs in Karnataka before Rajya Sabha election

A time aft suspending its 3 MLAs who cross-voted by going against enactment whip, Odisha Congress on Wednesday said it would instrumentality attempts to bribe its MLAs successful Karnataka up of Rajya Sabha elections to logical conclusion.

“Four persons were arrested by Karnataka constabulary from a edifice wherever Congress MLAs were enactment up up of Rajya Sabha elections. Their activities were suspicious. Prima facie grounds suggest that they were sent to edifice to bribe our MLAs. However, alert MLAs foiled their bid,” said Bhakta Charan Das, President of Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee.

Mr. Das said, “we would determination Election Commission of India raising the blatant effort to bribe lawmakers and question its intervention.”

“We are fishy that ample magnitude of wealth has changed hands successful the past Rajya Sabha predetermination for which an autarkic candidate, contempt not having numerical spot successful Odisha Legislative Assembly, won the seat,” said OPCC President.

Former Odisha Chief Minister and BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik had besides raised the bribery charges. “Reports person emerged that 4 individuals were arrested successful Bengaluru connected allegations of attempting to manus implicit blank cheques to MLAs with the intent to bargain votes for BJP-supported Rajya Sabha candidates,” Mr. Patnaik had written connected ‘X’ connected Monday (March 16).

“For the past fewer days, I person been consistently stating that the BJP has been engaged successful horse-trading-like activities to bring MLAs from different parties successful Odisha implicit to its side. This apprehension successful Bengaluru is large impervious of that. The radical of Odisha are watching everything and volition surely support this successful mind,” helium stated.

In March 16 Rajya Sabha election, Bharatiya Janta Party-backed candidates, Manmohan Samal, Sujeet Kumar and Dilip Ray were elected portion Biju Janata Dal campaigner Santrupta Mishra besides won comfortably.

Dr. Datteswar Hota, a communal campaigner supported by BJD, Congress and CPI (M), mislaid the predetermination pursuing voting by 11 MLAs (8 BJD and 3 Congress) against whips of their respective parties.  Congress suspended 3 MLAs, Ramesh Jena, Dasarathi Gamango and Sofia Firdous and threatened to determination for disqualification of their membership.

Similarly, BJD has issued show-cause announcement to six MLAs who voted for autarkic campaigner Dilip Ray. It had suspended 2 MLAs earlier Rajya Sabha elections.