Himachal Pradesh: Rebel Congress MLA Rajinder Rana claims to be in touch with ‘9 more who are feeling suffocated’
Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu's style of functioning. The rebel MLAs who were disqualified after they scripted the Congress' loss in the lone Rajya Sabha seat by cross voting, have moved the High Court challenging their disqualification. They were disqualified from the Himachal Pradesh Assembly for abstaining from voting on the cut motion and finance bill.
On Saturday expelled Congress MLA Rajinder Rana called himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu "liar number one". Meanwhile, high drama was witnessed during the Himachal Pradesh Cabinet meeting on Saturday as ministers Jagat Negi and Rohit Thakur left midway following a "heated debate" over policy decisions, PTI reported. In an interview with PTI, Rajinder Rana termed CM Sukhu "liar number one" and alleged that he was trying to twist the facts.
"Neither Public Works Department Minister Vikramaditya Singh had told the chief minister that he is meeting the Congress rebels at Panchkula nor the CM had sent him," Rana said. "Vikramaditya Singh, who met us on his way to Delhi, did not ask us to patch up. He has his grievances against the government which failed to provide land for installing Virbhadra Singh's statue and interfered in his functioning," he added.
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