No less than 22 candidates of the Opposition alliance in Assam have been flown to Jaipur and put up in a hotel for “safekeeping”, according to NDTV.
It’s believed that the Opposition is fearing that BJP may true to lure them into their fold ahead of election result due next month, the report said.
The candidates include those from the Maulana Badruddin Ajmal-led All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) and the Left, sources said.
They have been kept in the same hotel in the Capital of Congress-ruled Rajasthan where the party’s MLAs were holed up last July during a Ashok Gehlot-Sachin Pilot standoff.
The candidates from the Congress-led opposition alliance known as Mahajot are from the Maulana Badruddin Ajmal-led All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF).
They have been kept in the same Fairmont resort in the capital city of Congress-ruled Rajasthan where the its MLAs were holed up last July during the party’s internal crisis.
“It’s now a trend since the BJP tries to break the Congress after losing elections. So they (allies) want to take guard,” Congress’s Randeep Singh Surjewala said, confirming the developments.
Mahesh Joshi, Congress’s chief whip in the Rajasthan Assembly told news agency ANI, “We will take care of people coming here. We don’t know their parties and why they’ve come here. There are around 20 people. Congress will bear expenses. Till BJP is in centre, there will always be a possibility of buying MLAs.”
