Cong's K'taka RS MP quits, likely to join BJP

October 16, 2019 17:01

Congress parliamentarian from Karnataka K C Ramamurthy on Wednesday tendered his resignation as a member of Rajya Sabha and is likely to join the BJP, sources said.

His resignation has been accepted by House Chairman M Venkaiah Nadu, they said. Ramamurthy is likely to join the ruling BJP in coming days, party sources said.

In the recent past, Bhubneshwar Kalita and Sanjay Singh, both from the Congress, had resigned from the upper house. Neeraj Shekhar, Surendra Singh Nagar and Sanjay Seth had recently quit the Samajwadi Party and given up their Rajya Sabha membership to join the BJP. They were later re-elected to the Upper House on a BJP ticket, boosting the strength of the ruling party in Rajya Sabha where it lacks majority. In June this year, four Telugu Desam Party members from Rajya Sabha had joined the BJP.

The BJP-led NDA is just 24 MPs short of the majority mark in the Rajya Sabha and is confident of getting the numbers by 2021-22. This will help the Narendra Modi government get crucial legislation, barring

the Constitution amendment bills, passed without any opposition.

In the 245-member Rajya Sabha, the BJP is the largest party with 83 members. Its allies JDU(6), SAD (3), Shiv Sena (3), and RPI-A(1) take the NDA tally to 86. AIADMK, with 13 members, usually backs the ruling NDA.

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