"Their purchase politics has taken a hit": Congress' Renuka Chowdhury slams BJP over shifting of MLAs from Bihar to Telangana
Feb 05, 2024
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], February 5 : Congress leader Renuka Chowdhury on Monday slammed the BJP over the shifting of the grand old party MLAs from Bihar to Telangana and asked, 'What is their problem?" adding that their purchase politics have taken a hit.
"What is their problem? I don't understand. What is the issue that we haven't left our MLAs to be purchased by them? Their purchase politics have taken a hit. We have secured our MLAs. We are not spending money from the government; we are spending our own money. You are not going to buy Congress MLAs; that is your problem," she told ANI.
Amid the poaching fear in Bihar, the Congress relocated 16 MLAs out of 19 MLAs to Siri Nature's Valley Resort in Kagazghat village in Rangareddy on Sunday.
The three MLAs who preferred to stay in Bihar are Manohar Prasad, Manihari Assembly Constituency; Siddharth Saurav, Bikram (Patna) Assembly; and Abidur Rahman, Araria District Assembly.
Bihar Congress MLA Siddharth Saurav said on Sunday that he was unable to join 16 MLAs heading to Hyderabad as he was preoccupied with some work in his constituency.
"I have not gone to Hyderabad as there is a lot of work going on in my constituency. I was asked to go with them (MLAs have gone to Hyderabad) but I refused to go due to the work here in the constituency," Saurav told ANI on Sunday.
The floor test of the newly elected NDA government in Bihar is likely to happen on February 12.
Nitish Kumar took the oath as Chief Minister of Bihar for the ninth time in Raj Bhawan, Patna, switching sides again, this time with the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
It was for the second time in two years that Nitish Kumar had jumped the ship, his fifth crossover in a little over a decade.
