Bengaluru: The Congress is planning to move the Gujarat MLAs, currently locked in Bengaluru resort, to a "safer location" in Mysore or Madikeri on Sunday morning. They are waiting for Karnataka Power Minister D K Shivakumar, who is currently in Singapore, to return to the state.
Meanwhile, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Saturday alleged that Gujarat government, led by BJP, was "intimidating bribing Congress MLAs" to join its ranks. Azad said that Congress had apprised Election Commission of India (ECI) of all the happenings in Gujarat.
"What is even more saddening is that this is happening in Gujarat, the home state of Prime Minister Modi," Azad said, adding that he had asked the EC to remove all legislators who were threatening and kidnapping Congress MLAs.
Former Union Minister Anand Sharma also echoed Azad's sentiments on Saturday, saying what was happening in Gujarat was an assault on democracy. "We have to take our MLAs out of state to protect them. This is an open attack on democracy," he said.
Congress had on late Friday night moved 44 of its Gujarat MLAs to a resort in Bengaluru to guard them against "poaching" by the BJP ahead of the August 8 Rajya Sabha polls in the state.
The MLAs arrived at the Bengaluru International Airport at 2:30 am and were taken to Egleton Resort near Ramanagara. They were escorted by party MP DK Suresh, the younger brother of Karnataka Power Minister DK Shivakumar.
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