Resort politics is back: Gujarat Congress moves MLAs ahead of RS elections

On Monday, the party moved 20 MLAs to a resort in Rajasthan fearing more defections ahead of the Rajya Sabha elections due on June 19.

There was a time the Congress had dreamt of forming a government in Gujarat on the back of a relatively good performance in the Assembly elections in 2017 when it won 77 seats and succeeded in bringing the BJP’s total below 100. It was the first time the BJP’s tally dipped to the two-figure-mark since it came to power in 1995.

Today, the BJP has 103 MLAs and the Congress 65. The opposition party, which has lost 12 MLAs via defections to the BJP, is now fighting to keep its flock together. And it has only itself to blame.

On Monday, the