BJP used money, threats and 'partisan' returning officer in Haryana: Congress

NEW DELHI: Congress Tuesday said the governing BJP employed "money power, threats and misuse of returning officer" to triumph the Haryana Rajya Sabha predetermination astatine immoderate cost, arsenic it slammed the rival for again "exposing its anti-Ambedkar character" by trying to bargain the parliament rank of grassroots Dalit activistic Karamvir Boudh.After scraping a triumph successful the Haryana Rajya Sabha polls, contempt transverse voting by 5 Congress MLAs and 4 of its votes declared invalid, Congress MP Deepender Hooda said BJP had appointed Gujarat lawman CM arsenic the perceiver for the polls which showed that the BJP enactment wanted to triumph the predetermination irrespective of the maneuver used."BJP tried to execution ideology successful the acheronian of night. All the 4 votes declared arsenic invalid were wholly valid.

They had adjacent been enactment successful the tray of valid votes by an official. But this was done by a blatantly partisan RO (returning officer) to contrive the numbers successful favour of BJP," helium told a property league with Congress's scheduled castes section president Rajendra Pal Gautam.Deepender said Congress volition instrumentality beardown enactment against the MLAs who transverse voted and betrayed the party, adding that radical volition not forgive the legislators who betrayed their mandate.

He said BJP wanted to technologist cross-voting by 9 oregon 7 Congress legislators portion securing 2 votes of INLD. He said INLD, "which is the B-team of BJP", declared its determination to abstain from polling hardly fractional an hr earlier the voting ended, due to the fact that it was definite that Congress was winning the election.Deepender said erstwhile BJP's "game of unit and money" failed, BJP employed its 3rd strategy of fixing the play done RO. "RO worked arsenic a BJP agent," helium added.