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Amid fears of transverse voting successful the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections, astir 48 MLAs of Madhya PradeshCongress are waiting to committee a peculiar formation from Bhopal to Karnataka’s Bengaluru connected Tuesday (June 9, 2026).
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The craft is yet to instrumentality disconnected from Bhopal airdrome with the Congress alleging that the Air Traffic Control (ATC) has been delaying successful giving the instrumentality disconnected support to the chartered plane.
A Congress MLA, who is astatine the airport, told The Hindu, “We person been present for implicit 4 hours, but we are not allowed to instrumentality off. Now, officials are saying that they volition commencement the boarding soon.”
Meanwhile, assorted Congress MLAs person alleged successful the media that they are “being approached connected behalf of the BJP with lucrative offers”.
Leader of Opposition (LoP) successful the Madhya Pradesh Assembly Umang Singhar said, “Several temptations person reached Congress MLAs regarding the Rajya Sabha elections, but our Congress colleagues person returned the BJP’s ‘jhola [bag]’ back. Congress’s 62 MLAs are agreed with afloat strength, and we are assured that enactment volition beryllium received from much than 62. BJP should interest astir its MLAs.”
More MLAs are expected to permission for Bengaluru aboriginal successful the day, arsenic per Congress insiders. Some elder leaders, including Mr. Singhar, volition permission connected Wednesday (June 10, 2026).
The MLAs volition enactment successful a edifice adjacent Bengaluru for implicit a week and volition instrumentality to Bhopal connected the polling day, June 18.
