SRINAGAR: Alleged cross-voting within the Rajya Sabha election final week dominated proceedings within the J&Ok meeting on Monday morning after deputy CM Surinder Choudhary accused BJP of “stealing 4 votes”.As Choudhary rose to talk, a BJP legislator interrupted him, main the deputy CM to make the accusation.His retort triggered a heated trade between the treasury and opposition benches, with Nationwide Convention (NC) legislators led by Tanvir Sadiq shouting slogans and calling BJP members “vote chor”. The BJP legislators responded with counter allegations, ignoring speaker Abdul Rahim Reasonably's repeated makes an attempt to revive order.BJP sprung a shock on NC final Friday in J&Ok's first Rajya Sabha elections because the abrogation of Article 370, profitable one of many 4 seats at stake with 32 votes, 4 greater than its power of 28 within the meeting. BJP candidate Sat Sharma's victory got here regardless of NC purportedly having its ally Congress and PDP's backing.Whereas NC's three candidates – Choudhary Mohammad Ramzan, Sajad Ahmad Kichloo and Shammi Oberoi – gained comfortably, Sharma's victory led to a hypothesis about “the extra 4 members who voted for BJP”.A BJP spokesperson claimed on Monday that some NC members voted for Sharma, inviting an immediate denial from CM Omar Abdullah's occasion.
