The Chhattisgarh unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to give ruling Congress a walkover as they are not going to field any candidate for the two vacant seats for biennial Rajya Sabha polls scheduled to be held later this month.
Leader of Opposition in state assembly Dharamlal Kaushik while talking to The Pioneer said “the party has decided that it will not contest the Rajya Sabha elections in Chhattisgarh as we don’t have sufficient numbers of legislators in the state assembly to claim for the posts and hence had decided to stay away”.
Notable, the ruling Congress enjoys two-third majority with 69 seats in the 90-member state assembly. The BJP has just 14 legislators.