Chandigarh, June 11 – Haryana Chief Minister, Sh. Manohar Lal has congratulated BJP MP, Sh.  Krishna Lal Panwar, and Sh. Karthikeya Sharma, an independent MP for their victory in the Rajya Sabha elections.

 He said that this is the victory of the people of Haryana.  Both the MPs will go to the Rajya Sabha and raise the issues in the interests of Haryana. 

The Chief Minister himself reached the Haryana Legislative Assembly at around 2 am and congratulated both the newly elected MPs and offered sweets to them.

Responding to a question, the Chief Minister said that the total number of MLAs in the Haryana Legislative Assembly is 90.  During the Rajya Sabha elections, one MLA did not cast his vote while the vote of a Congress MLA was cancelled.  With this, the total number of MLAs became  88. Whichever candidate gets one-third of the total number of votes in the Rajya Sabha, wins.  

The candidate who will fall short of this winning figure will lose.  One-third of the 88 MLAs in the Haryana Legislative Assembly is 29.34.  By combining the first and second preferences, the numbers of both the candidates have this number, whereas  Congress candidate failed to score this number and were defeated.

The Chief Minister said that recounting was also done once during the election.

MLA Kuldeep Bishnoi heeded to the voice of his inner soul.

Responding to a question, Chief Minister said that MLA Kuldeep Bishnoi has cast an open vote. He heard his inner soul voice. He must have done this only after being impressed by the policies of Prime Minister, Sh. Narendra Modi and his government said Sh. Manohar Lal. 

Sh. Kuldeep Bishnoi has heard the voice of his inner soul to connect with the emotion of the Nation, said the Chief Minister. 

BJP's one-day training overshadowed  Congress's one-week long training

Responding to another question, the Chief Minister said that he does not know how one vote of Congress was cancelled but BJP got all the votes.

The Congress had trained its MLAs for a week before this election, but the BJP's one-day training had overshadowed their training.  They failed and we passed, said Sh. Manohar Lal.