Shimla, March 14 -- In an attempt to keep its flock together, Congress on Friday moved its Haryana MLAs to Himachal Pradesh ahead of the polling for two Rajya Sabha seats in Haryana on March 16, said people in the know of the matter.

BJP's Sanjay Bhatia, Congress' Karamvir Singh Boudh and BJP-backed independent candidate Satish Nandal are in the fray for the polls.

The party legislators left Chandigarh late afternoon.

The sources said that the Congress MLAs, who arrived in Shimla in three buses around 8 pm, have been lodged in two hotel in Kufri in the suburbs of Shimla city and 37 rooms have been booked for them.

However, the state government and officials are tight-lipped on the matter.

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