It is a crucial day in Uttarakhand where a Supreme Court-monitored
floor test will take place in the Assembly on Tuesday May 10,2016
Ahead of the confidence vote, sacked chief minister Harish Rawat got a major boost on Monday with the High Court dismissing the petition of nine Congress MLAs challenging their disqualification and the SC refusing to give any relief to them.
After excluding the nine disqualified MLAs, the Assembly has an effective strength of 62 members.
The Congress has 27 members including the Speaker in the 71-member Assembly, while the BJP has 27 members and a rebel who can vote.
Two independents and one Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (UKD) member are with the Congress while the stand of two Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) members is not clear.
With 9 rebels being disqualified, any side would need a majority of 32 to win the trust vote.
The Congress would watch the movements of the two BSP MLAs a bit anxiously, but the calculation is that they are likely to abstain, as going with the BJP would cost them in the Uttar Pradesh polls in 2017.
Ahead of the confidence vote, sacked chief minister Harish Rawat got a major boost on Monday with the High Court dismissing the petition of nine Congress MLAs challenging their disqualification and the SC refusing to give any relief to them.
After excluding the nine disqualified MLAs, the Assembly has an effective strength of 62 members.
The Congress has 27 members including the Speaker in the 71-member Assembly, while the BJP has 27 members and a rebel who can vote.
Two independents and one Uttarakhand Kranti Dal (UKD) member are with the Congress while the stand of two Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) members is not clear.
With 9 rebels being disqualified, any side would need a majority of 32 to win the trust vote.
The Congress would watch the movements of the two BSP MLAs a bit anxiously, but the calculation is that they are likely to abstain, as going with the BJP would cost them in the Uttar Pradesh polls in 2017.
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