New Delhi: The Gujarat Congress shifted their MLAs to Rajasthan on Sunday. The congress party had taken precautions to save their MLAs from the bargains of the other parties, in the wake of four Rajya Sabha elections in the state.

As per the strength of the Gujarat Assembly there are 65 congress MLAs and 103 BJP MLAs. Three congress MLAs are already resigned to the party and the post of the MLA, some more MLAs are also in a line to follow them. Congress sources said the party is eventually expected to move 26 MLAs to the resort, Wild Winds, located in Rajasthan’s Mount Abu. Rajasthan is ruled by the Congress and party leaders have expressed hopes that the MLAs would safe from BJP interference there.

The Congress has 65 MLAs in Gujarat, some of whom have already been packed off to different resorts. A group of MLAs from Saurashtra have been lodged at a resort in Rajkot called Neel City. Another group is at a resort near Anand in Gujarat. The BJP has 103 members in the 182-member state assembly, where a candidate needs 34 votes to win.

With its current strength, the Congress can only be assured of a single seat instead of two, which it could have commanded earlier. Of the four Rajya Sabha seats up for election in Gujarat, the BJP has three and the Congress, one. The BJP has fielded Narhari Amin, Abhay Bhardwaj and Ramilaben Bara.

The Congress has named Shaktisinh Gohil and Bharatsinh Solanki for the polls and now has to decide who will be its first preference candidate as that person is likely to win. The Congress has alleged that the BJP is trying to engineer defections through bribery.