Keeping MLAs under pressure not good for democracy:Tomar on Cong

Jaipur: As the Congress has moved its MLAs to Udaipur fearing poaching by the Opposition ahead of the RS polls, Union Minister of Agriculture Narendra Singh Tomar on Saturday said keeping legislators under pressure in a democratic system is uncalled for.

Tomar, who is also the BJP in-charge for the elections in Rajasthan, was in Jaipur on Saturday to take part in a party meeting to form the strategy ahead of the polls to four seats in the Upper House on June 10.

“In a democratic country, pressure politics and politics of influence is not good,” he said. He said that the BJP doesn’t require shifting of any of its legislators like the Congress as the saffron party is going to hold a training camp for them.

Replying to question on BSP issuing a whip for legislators who won on its ticket & later defected to the Congress, he said, “Every worker of any party should follow the party whip.”