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Sinha left his own state

In the presidential election, no candidate would have been insulted in his own state like Yashwant Sinha has. He has got a good number of votes all over the country. Any opposition candidate got as many votes as he got. But in Jharkhand they were in very bad condition. The leaders of both UPA and NDA left him. Usually, the MLAs and MPs of the state to which the candidate belongs, vote for him irrespective of the party line. But this time in Jharkhand the reverse has happened. There are 81 MLAs and 14 MPs in the state, out of which Yashwant Sinha did not get a single MP’s vote. Only eight of the MLAs voted for him. This happened when two MPs in the state belong to the UPA and close to 50 MLAs have the support of the JMM-led UPA government.

In fact, the JMM, which is running the government in the state, had already announced to support Draupadi Murmu in the name of tribal. Congress definitely supported Yashwant Sinha but Congress MLAs and only MP did cross voting. This is also a big setback for Avinash Pandey, the party’s new in-charge general secretary in the state, who tried hard to get Sinha votes. 12 Congress MLAs and one MP voted for Murmu. All 30 MLAs and one MP of JMM also voted for Murmu and 12 MPs and 30 MLAs of BJP and its allies also voted for Murmu. In this way, Sinha got the remainder of the Congress and a total of nine votes of Left and RJD.

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