Lok Sabha Elections 2024: 7 states where Congress is marred by infighting

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just ahead of Lok Sabha Elections 2024: The Congress-led Himachal Pradesh government plunged into a crisis after six of its MLAs cross-voted in favour of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate in the Rajya Sabha elections. High-profile leader Vikramaditya Singh resigned as minister, complaining that “MLAs were overlooked" under the Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu-led government in the state.

Singh, who is the son of Himachal Congress president Pratibha Singh, said Wednesday morning that he was submitting his resignation from the council of ministers, but hours later, he softened his stand. Two MLAs of the Congress in Bihar — Siddharth Saurav and Murari Gautam — crossed over to the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on Tuesday.

The party, on Wednesday, sought their disqualification from the state assembly. Earlier, Congress legislative party leader Shakil Ahmed Khan said that both MLAs have also been “stripped of the party’s primary membership".

When asked about speculations of more MLAs deserting the Congress, Saurav was quoted by PTI as saying, “There will be a series (ladi lag jaane wali hai)." Assam Congress working president Rana Goswami resigned from the party on Wednesday and headed to New Delhi, where he is likely to join the BJP. Goswami had on Sunday resigned as the party’s organisational in-charge of Upper Assam, citing “various political reasons".

“I beg to state that I am tendering my resignation as the working President of Assam Pradesh Congress Committee and as an active member of Indian National Congress," he was quoted by PTI as saying in the resignation letter addressed to Congress general secretary (organisation), KC Venugopal. Leader of opposition Debabrata Saikia of the Congress told reporters that