Ahead Of Election Results, Congress Sends 3 Senior Leaders To Manipur To Keep The Flock Together

Manipur Assembly Polls 2022: Congress move aims to keep the flock together in case of a hung assembly in the state.

(L to R) Congress leaders Mukul Wasnik, TS Singh Deo, and Vincent Pala | Photos: Twitter

New Delhi: The Congress party on Tuesday deputed general secretary Mukul Wasnik and Chhattisgarh Health Minister TS Singh Deo, besides senior leader Vincent Pala, for post-poll management in Manipur ahead of election results.

The move aims to keep the Congress flock together in case of a hung assembly in the state, news agency PTI reported.

Similar appointments have been made in Uttarakhand, Goa and Punjab too, which went to polls in the recently concluded elections.

The results of the 2022 assembly elections will be declared on Thursday, March 10.     

Quoting sources, the PTI report said the appointments are part of the Congress's strategy to work out government formations in the states where no party gets a clear majority.

The sources also said there are plans to shift its newly-elected legislators to a "safe location" in the Congress-ruled states of Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh.

Party leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has seen the arrangements in place in Rajasthan in case the legislators are needed to be shifted there, the report said.

There are fears there could be "possible attempts by others to poach them", and that's why the newly elected legislators are needed to be kept in at "safe locations", the sources were quoted as saying.

There are chances of a hung assembly in Goa, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Punjab.

Results of all exit polls, including the one by ABP News-CVoter, have predicted a tight race in Uttarakhand and Goa. While most of them projected a victory for the Aam Aadmi Party in Punjab, the ABP News-CVoter survey showed that the party could fall short of majority in the state.

The Congress, the sources said, is not taking any chances this time as the party had failed to form government in Goa and Manipur in 2017 despite emerging as the single largest party.

Ahead of the results, the party's in-charges and observers in various poll-bound states will also be stationed at the state headquarters, the report said.