Rajasthan Crisis: Mayawati declared she would go all the way to the Supreme Court.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, who has a thin lead in the assembly after a revolt by his sacked deputy Sachin Pilot, will "be taught a lesson", warned Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Mayawati today, declaring she would go all the way to the Supreme Court to fight six MLAs of her party joining the Congress last year.
Ashok Gehlot is just one ahead of the majority mark of 101 in the 200-member Rajasthan assembly. Six MLAs who merged the Rajasthan BSP into the Congress in September helped him secure his tally.
BJP leader Madan Dilawar has petitioned the Rajasthan High Court against the merger; he dropped an earlier case and filed a fresh petition today. The BSP has approached the court and asked to be made a part of the same petition.
"BSP could have gone to the court earlier too but we were looking for a time to teach the Congress party and Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot a lesson. Now we have decided to go to court. We will not let this matter alone. We will go even to the Supreme Court," Mayawati said today.
The party led by former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati had recently approached the Election Commission to consider six Rajasthan MLAs, who had last year merged with the Congress, as BSP MLAs during the Rajya Sabha polls, but the Election Commission had refused to intervene in that as it's the Speaker's domain.
The BSP late on Sunday issued a whip to the six MLAs - R Gudha, Lakhan Singh, Deep Chand, JS Awana, Sandeep Kumar and Wajib Ali.
"Notices have been issued to the six MLAs separately as well as collectively, stating that since BSP is a national party, there cannot be any merger at the state level at the instance of the six MLAs, unless there is a merger of the BSP at the national level. If they violate it, they will be disqualified," BSP National General Secretary Satish Chandra Mishra told news agency ANI.
