Adampur MLA Kuldeep Bishnoi, who was expelled from all party posts by the Congress after cross-voting in the Rajya Sabha polls, on Sunday met BJP chief JP Nadda and Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and discussed political issues with them. This was Bishnoi’s second meeting with the BJP leadership within two weeks.
Bishnoi had met Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP President Nadda in Delhi on July 10. After meeting Nadda and Khattar in Delhi, Bishnoi praised both the leaders fiercely.
After meeting Nadda, Bishnoi said, “Discussed current political issues with him during the meeting.” On his meeting with Khattar, Bishnoi said that they had “an important discussion about the current political issues of the state and development work of Haryana”.
The 53-year-old MLA was expelled from all party posts by the Congress last month. Since then, he has been heating up the BJP. On his frequent meetings with BJP leaders in recent weeks and the possibility of him switching to the saffron party, former Haryana chief minister and Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda had said that the Adampur MLAs are free to take their own decisions, but they should resign. Must as an MLA before doing so.
Bishnoi, a four-time MLA and two-time MP and younger son of former Haryana Chief Minister Bhajan Lal, has been upset ever since the Congress ignored him during a reform earlier this year for the post of Haryana unit president. The party appointed former Chief Minister Hooda loyalist Uday Bhan as the chief of its Haryana unit.
After cross-voting in the Rajya Sabha election, Bishnoi had posted a cryptic tweet saying, “I know how to crush the hood of a snake. I do not leave the forest for fear of snakes.
On his expulsion from the party, Bishnoi had said that there are rules for some Congress leaders and exceptions for some. “The rules are applied selectively. Indiscipline has been overlooked time and again in the past. In my case, I listened to my soul and acted on my ethics. ,
The Congress, which is the main opposition party in Haryana, was assured a Rajya Sabha seat based on the number of MLAs in the 90-member assembly. However, Congress candidate Ajay Maken failed to secure a berth after Bishnoi cross-voting, while an MLA’s vote was declared invalid.
BJP’s Krishan Lal Panwar and saffron party-backed Independent candidate Kartikeya Sharma were elected to two Rajya Sabha seats from Haryana. Bishnoi and his father Bhajan Lal formed the Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC) in 2007 after the Congress elected Hooda to the chief minister’s post following the party’s landslide victory in the 2005 assembly elections.
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