The three legislators — Ashish Sharma, Hoshiyar Singh, and KL Thakur— resigned from the state assembly on March 22, but the speaker is yet to accept it
Singh, who is a cabinet minister in the Nayab Singh Saini government, was on Sunday, fielded by the BJP from Hisar Lok Sabha constituency soon after he formally joined the saffron party in presence of BJP candidate from Sirsa Lok Sabha seat Ashok Tanwar, a former Congressman himself who had recently joined the BJP
While cross-party defections are common before elections, the party has to ensure that its vote share – higher in 2019 than it was in 2014 – doesn’t get hit
Gujarat Congress spokesperson Manish Doshi said that Gupta resigned as he wants to shift to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for his business interests