Ramesh said the Congress president has spoken to the observers and AICC in-charge for the state Rajeev Shukla and has asked them to speak to all MLAs, including those who are disgruntled, and submit a comprehensive report to him soon.The future course of action will be decided after that, he said.”The Congress will not hesitate to take some tough steps as the party is our priority and we will not let people’s mandate be betrayed in Himachal Pradesh,” Ramesh told reporters.”We cannot lose the mandate through the BJP’s ‘Operation Lotus’ as only the people of the state can take it back,” Ramesh asserted, adding that the BJP has done so earlier in Madhya Pradesh, Goa and Maharashtra.”Individual’s interests are not important, the party is supreme and so is the people’s mandate,” he said.The Congress rebels are seeking to install a person of their choice as the new chief minister of the state.Earlier in the day, former chief minister Virbhadra Singh’s son Vikramaditya Singh resigned as a minister and said he was pained to take this step out of frustration and humiliation.
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