Congress MLA Kuldeep Bishnoi resigned from the Haryana Assembly on Wednesday, PTI reported. He is set to join the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday.
Bishnoi submitted his resignation to Haryana Assembly Speaker Gian Chand Gupta. He was the Congress MLA from the Adampur constituency in the Hisar district.
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In the Rajya Sabha elections held in June, Bishnoi had cross-voted for an Independent candidate. The 53-year-old voted for Kartikeya Sharma instead of Congress leader Ajay Maken, who lost the elections.
Subsequently, the Congress had expelled Bishnoi from all posts in the party.
After Bishnoi voted for the BJP-backed candidate, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar had said that the Congress legislator had showed faith in the principles and policies of the BJP.
Before the Rajya Sabha elections took place, the Congress had taken several of its MLAs to a resort in Chhattisgarh in a bid to thwart poaching attempts by rival parties. However, Bishnoi, a four-time MLA and two-time MP, did not go to the resort.
He had also stayed away from other party events, including the Chintan Shivir, an introspection meeting, that took place in Udaipur in May. This was after the Congress revamped its…
