[High Drama over Rajya Sabha Poll in Gujarat: Open Horse Trading is Now an Open and Legitimate Part of the So Very Revered "Business of Nationalism"! (Of course, only as long as it's a part of the "Business of Nationalism"!) Counting, nevertheless, had to be put on hold. BJP unleashes its Minister Power!]
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/rajya-sabha-election-live-updates-bjp-s-amit-shah-congress-ahmed-patel-in-battle-for-3-gujarat-seats/story-v1yD0IKJzbZJhh77d2M2wN.html Gujarat Rajya Sabha election LIVE: Congress, BJP fight over two votes; EC to convey order on counting at 11:30 pm Counting of votes for the three Gujarat Rajya Sabha seats was supposed to start at 5 pm. The counting was held up after the Congress demanded that the poll panel invalidate the votes of Raghavji Patel and Bhola Gohil who belonged to the Shankersinh Vaghela camp. INDIA Updated: Aug 08, 2017 23:10 IST Hiral Dave Hiral Dave Hindustan Times, Ahmedabad Senior BJP leaders Ravi Shankar Prashad , Nirmla Sitaraman , Dharmendra Pradhan , Muktar Abbas Naqvi , and Piyush Goel at Election Commission in New Delhi on Tuesday.(Ravi Choudhary/HT Photo) The BJP’s Amit Shah and Smriti Irani are set to be elected to the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat in polling on Tuesday, which has become a high-stakes battle for Congress party’s Ahmed Patel, thanks to infighting and resignations. Patel remained confident of victory, saying that the “numbers favoured the Congress”. Gujarat has three vacancies and the ruling BJP has fielded party chief Amit Shah, Union minister Smriti Irani and Congress turncoat Balwantsinh Rajput. Of them, two are set to win, given the BJP’s strength of 122 lawmakers in the assembly. For the third seat, Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s political secretary Patel is up against Rajput. Read more Upset with Nitish, JD-U MLA votes for Ahmed Patel in Gujarat Rajya Sabha polls Gujarat Rajya Sabha election: Why it’s important for both BJP and Congress Catch live updates on the election here: 10:50 pm: View image on TwitterView image on TwitterView image on Twitter Follow ANI ✔ @ANI Gujarat: Amit Shah, CM Vijay Rupani, Bhupender Yadav & othe rparty members sitting outside counting center in Gandhinagar #GujaratRSPolls 10:50 PM - Aug 8, 2017 29 29 Replies 87 87 Retweets 265 265 likes Twitter Ads info and privacy 10:45 pm: Election Commission will convey order on counting of votes to Returning Officer at 11:30 pm. 10:25 pm: “Why is BJP bringing an army of defence/finance minister, power minister, petroleum minister and commerce minister? It means they want to suppress truth,” Surjewala questions. 10:12 pm: “With all respect, want to tell BJP that this is the war of truth and lies cannot prevail on Gandhi Ji’s land,” says Congress spokesperson RS Surjewala. 9:57 pm: EC officials turn away both Congress and BJP delegations for the third time. ... 8:25 pm: Congress MP P Chidambaram says, “There is enough evidence that the ballot paper were seen by people other than those authorized.” “EC must reject these ballot papers as it did in Haryana in June 2016,” Chidambaram says, reports ANI. 8:17 pm: View image on TwitterView image on TwitterView image on Twitter Follow ANI ✔ @ANI Delhi: Congress and BJP delegations at Election Commission #GujaratRSPolls 8:17 PM - Aug 8, 2017 6 6 Replies 24 24 Retweets 69 69 likes 8:10 pm: BJP delegation comprising Nirmala Sitharaman, Piyush Goyal and RS Prasad arrive at Election Commission again. 7: 55 pm: BJP demands immediate counting of votes and announcement of results, says Congress is reacting out of fear of defeat. 7:50 pm: One of our MLAs had mistakenly showed his vote in Haryana and his vote was rejected, same was done in Gujarat so their votes should be rejected: Congress MP Anand Sharma. 7: 42 pm: Law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad says they requested EC to reject Congress’ plea as once votes are cast, nothing can be done and the process was fair. “Since morning Congress has been claiming win, now with defeat staring in their face they are making desperate attempts,” Prasad says. 7:40 pm: “I’m very much confident let counting take place,” says Ahmed Patel. 7:37 pm: Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad says Congress allegations are “baseless” and the party didn’t protest in the morning. Congress’ Ahmed Patel says Congress filed complaint with the Returning Officer soon after two rebel party MLAs allegedly showed their vote to BJP leaders. “Immediately a complaint was filed. The Returning Officer did not take any action, so we moved the Election Commission,” Patel says. Snipped -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
