Sinha deserted in his own state by ‘political family’!

New Delhi: In the presidential election, no candidate would have been insulted in his own state like Yashwant Sinha has been. He has got a good number of votes all over the country. But in Jharkhand, he was in a very bad condition. Leaders of both UPA and NDA deserted him. Usually, the MLAs and MPs of the state to which the candidate belongs, vote for them 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 JMMled UPA government. In fact, the JMM, which is running the government in the state, had already announced to support Droupadi Murmu in the name of tribal community. Congress definitely supported Yashwant Sinha but Congress MLAs and the lone MP engaged in cross voting. This is also a big setback for Avinash Pande, the party’s new in-charge general secretary in the state, who tried hard to get votes for Sinha, however, 12 Congress MLAs and one MP voted for Murmu.