Ajay Maken caught in the turn of 88... the maths of Karthikeya's victory
For the victory in the Rajya Sabha elections in Haryana, the Congress was preparing for several days. They were also sent to Raipur to save the MLAs from greed but in the end Kuldeep Bishnoi left the party and Ajay Maken was defeated.
BJP's Krishan Lal Panwar and BJP-JJP supported independent candidate Karthikeya Sharma were declared winners on two Rajya Sabha seats in Haryana late on Friday night. Congress veteran Ajay Maken was defeated. Congress made all efforts to avoid infighting but they were defeated by one vote.
Counting of votes was to begin at 5 o'clock after voting on Friday, but JJP leaders and independent candidate Karthikeya Sharma had demanded the commission to declare illegal the votes of two Congress MLAs Kiran Choudhary and Bibi Batra. In support of Karthikeya, the BJP and the Congress from the other side reached the Election Commission. After this, the events changed rapidly and late night Congress had to face defeat.Total 89 votes cast
Total votes cast in Haryana Rajya Sabha elections were 89. Of these, 88 valid votes were found. Panwar needed 31 votes to win while Congress 30 votes. If one vote of Congress was canceled, 29 were left. While Karthikeya got 28 votes, but due to the number of valid votes being 88, he won due to Krishan Lal Panwar getting 1.66 percent of the first preference votes to Karthikeya. Congress's polling agent Bibi Batra said - Kuldeep Bishnoi did not vote for the party's candidate. This led to the defeat of Maken. Had he voted for the Congress candidate, we would have definitely won.