Two MlAs — Charanjeet Singh of the Shiromani Akali Dal and Dharambir Singh of Congress — on Tuesday resigned as members of Haryana Assembly after switching over to different parties to fight the lok Sabha polls.
While Charanjeet has been nominated from Sirsa by the INlD, Dharambir switched over to the BJP and is set to contest from the Bhiwani-Mahendergarh parliamentary seat. Charanjeet represented Kalanwali (reserved) seat while Dharambir was MlA from Sohna Assembly constituency. They submitted their resignations to the Speaker and it has been accepted.
INlD has fielded candidates on all the ten lok Sabha seats in Haryana, polling for which will be held on April 10.Dharambir, a former Chief Parliamentary Secretary had quit Congress recently after switching over to the BJP to fight the lok Sabha polls from Bhiwani-Mahendergarh constituency.
The Assembly has notified that the two MlAs have resigned from their seats in the legislative Assembly by their letters dated March 11 and 16, respectively and submitted on Tuesday. These two Assembly constituencies have now fallen vacant. Assembly polls in Haryana are due to be held in September-October this year.