Himachal Pradesh’s ruling party Congress is at odds with the Opposition BJP demanding a floor test after winning the state’s single Rajya Sabha seat because of cross-voting by six Congress MLAs. Following this, the Speaker took the decision to expel 15 BJP MLAs just as the Budget Session was about to start. Allegedly, these MLAs were shouting slogans inside the chamber of the Speaker, Kuldeep Singh Pathania.

The expelled MLAs include Jairam Thakur, Vipin Singh Parmar, Randheer Sharma, Lokender Kumar, Vinod Kumar, Hans Raj, Janak Raj, Balbir Verma, Trilok Jamwal, Surender Shori, Deep Raj, Puran Thakur, Inder Singh Gandhi and Dildeep Thakur.