Rajya Sabha Polls: Voting Ends in MP, Corona Infected MLA also Votes

Bhopal: Voting for three vacant Rajya Sabha seats in Madhya Pradesh concluded this afternoon after all the 206 MLAs, including a Congress legislator who has tested COVID-19 positive, cast their votes. Voting began at 9 am in the state assembly complex here and ended around 1.15 pm, an assembly official said. The Congress legislator, who is a COVID-19 patient, was the last one to cast his ballot wearing a PPE suit. He came to the assembly complex in an ambulance, the official said. Both the parties- the BJP and the Congress- had fielded two candidates each for the three seats of the Upper House of Parliament.

While the BJP fielded senior leader and former Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia and former professor of a government college, Sumer Singh Solanki, from the Congress’s side, veteran politician Digvijaya Singh and Dalit leader Phool Singh Baraiya were in the fray. BJP members, including state Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, cast their votes in the morning.

Former chief minister Kamal Nath and other Congress leaders also cast their ballots soon after the process began. Chouhan was the first member to cast vote, followed by the Home Minister Narottam Mishra. The members were seen wearing masks and standing in a queue maintaining social distance in view of COVID-19 pandemic.