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Haryana Govt Crisis: Congress seeks dismissal of BJP
govt, as 3 MLAs switch sides
The Congress on Wednesday demanded President’s Rule and
fresh elections in Haryana as three Independent MLAs withdrew
support from the BJP government and extended it to their party.
The Nayab Singh Saini-led BJP government currently has 40
MLAs in the Assembly, shy of the majority mark of 45 in the now
88-member House.
“We are going to write to the Governor that three Independent
MLAs have withdrawn support and they have extended support to
our party, the government is in the minority and they have no right
to stay in power. We will demand that the government be dismissed, President’s Rule be imposed and fresh
elections be held,” Haryana Congress chief Udai Bhan said.
The BJP government has the support of 43 MLAs (including the support of 2 other Independent MLAs) now,
though it claimed on Tuesday that four Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) MLAs too may offer “tactical assistance
to the government if needed”, taking its strength to 47. Meanwhile, JJP leader Dushyant Chautala today
announced that he would “support Leader of Opposition, Bhupinder Singh Hooda” if the latter initiates a
move to topple the BJP government in the State. JJP had pulled out of the BJP coalition government in
March.
Astrazeneca withdraws Covid vaccine, weeks a er
report on rare side effects
Weeks after admitting that its Covid vaccine can cause rare
side effects, AstraZeneca Tuesday announced that it is
withdrawing the Oxford-AstraZeneca novel coronavirus shot
worldwide.
According to a report by The Telegraph, AstraZeneca said the
vaccine was being removed from markets for commercial
reasons. The vaccine was no longer being manufactured or
supplied, after being superseded by updated vaccines which
have the capability to tackle new variants.
According to the report, the vaccine can no longer be used in the European Union after the company
voluntarily withdrew its “marketing authorisation”.