Congress’ disqualified Himachal MLAs join BJP

Those who joined the BJP are Sudhir Sharma, Ravi Thakur, Rajinder Rana, Inder Dutt Lakhanpal, Chetanya Sharma and Devinder Kumar Bhutto — all elected on a Congress ticket and disqualified on February 29 for defying a party whip to be present in the House and vote in favour of the state government during a cut motion and budget.The Election Commission has announced bypolls for their constituencies and they are expected to contest as BJP candidates.Three Independent MLAs — Ashish Sharma, Hoshiyar Singh and KL Thakur — who submitted their resignations on Friday, are also likely to join the BJP soon.The Congress government led by Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu was last month plunged into a crisis after the BJP won the Rajya Sabha poll for the state’s lone seat due to the support of these nine MLAs.



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