GUWAHATI: Politics over Rajya Sabha (RS) election took a new twist in Assam after chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday reached out to suspended Congress MLA Sashikanta Das at his Raha residence in central Assam’s Nagaon district. From Das’s residence, Sarma announced that the Congress legislator will vote for a BJP-supported candidate in the RS polls.
Even as the Assam PCC has been asserting that two of its MLAs — Sashikanta Das and Sherman Ali Ahmed — are bound to vote for the opposition’s candidate under a three-line whip to be issued, Sarma told the media that Das will vote either for the BJP nominee or supported candidate from the ruling alliance. “I don’t know about Sherman Ali but Sashikanta Das has informed me that he is going to vote for us in the Rajya Sabha election. Sashikanta has already publicly announced that he is with the government,” said Sarma. Incidentally, he said in the RS election, a whip has no value.
