Rajya Sabha Surveys See Resistance MLAs Crossing Celebration Lines
The NDA picked up speed in Monday’s Rajya Sabha political elections across 10 states because of cross-voting by opposition MLAs. In Odisha, 3 Congress MLAs, including Sofia Firdous, supposedly chose BJP-backed candidates.
- Odisha Defection: Congress MLA Sofia Firdous, a novice lawmaker, elected versus her event’s decision to support the BJD candidate.
- Thinking: Firdous revealed frustration with the Congress celebration’s lack of assessment concerning the BJD candidate selection, checking out BJD as BJP’s “B-team.”
- Background: Firdous, 32, is Odisha’s very first female Odia Muslim MLA and a civil engineer with a background in realty.