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  • AAP-Congress Alliance In Delhi Uncertain: ‘Let’s See,’ Says Kejriwal After Blaming Delays |

    New Delhi: The AAP and the Congress were “too late” in their talks over seat sharing in Delhi for Lok Sabha polls, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Wednesday, amid reports by sources in both sides that the prospects of an alliance have faced a setback. On Tuesday, Kejriwal had said that talks for seat sharing in the national capital were in “final stages” and a partnership between the two parties would be declared soon. There are seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi currently held by the BJP.

    News agency PTI citing sources in the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) reported that if the alliance did not materialize with the Congress, the party could announce its candidates in the next few days. When questioned by reporters on the likelihood of alliance with the Congress in Delhi, Kejriwal said, “It is too late, it should have occurred much earlier. Let us see what happens in the next one-two days.”

    Delhi Congress president Arvinder Singh Lovely said that the party is ready for elections on all the seven constituencies in Delhi. “The committee headed by Mukul Vasnik is constantly talking to the members of the INDIA bloc. It would not be proper for me to comment about that,” he told reporters.

    Sources said despite several rounds of talks between the leaders of two parties, a consensus over number of seats to be fought by them was yet to be reached. Congress sources claimed that the party wanted to fight four of the seven Lok Sabha seats and leave the rest for the AAP.

    “This is justified as in the 2019 polls, the Congress candidates were second on six of the seven seats in Delhi while AAP candidates were on third place except for South Delhi constituency,” said a senior Delhi Congress leader.

    Although AAP leaders remained silent on seat sharing, sources in the party said, “The Aam Aadmi Party wants to fight four seats – North East Delhi, West Delhi, South Delhi and North West Delhi.” The AAP earlier said it was holding talks with the INDIA bloc partners for a pact in Gujarat, Haryana, Delhi, and Goa. The party has already decided to go alone in Punjab.

    AAP national general secretary (organisation) Sandeep Pathak recently said that the party has demanded eight out of 26 Lok Sabha seats from the Congress in Gujarat. He said that the AAP won five seats by polling a total 13 per cent votes in the last Assembly polls in Gujarat and claimed eight Lok Sabha seats in the state for the upcoming polls, while offering remaining 18 to the Congress.

    He had also offered one Lok Sabha seat in Delhi to the Congress saying it did not merit even that based on its previous election track record. The Congress currently does not have any Lok Sabha MP or MLA from Delhi. The AAP has so far unilaterally declared its candidates in two seats each in Gujarat and Assam and one in Goa.

    Pathak had said that if a decision was not soon taken on seat-sharing in Delhi, his party would declare its candidates. The BJP won all the seven seats in Delhi consecutively in 2014 and 2019 elections. Interestingly, the BJP candidates in 2019 polled more votes than the combined tally of Congress and AAP candidates.

  • Rajya Sabha Polls: Sonia, Nadda Among 41 Elected Unopposed, Voting For 15 Seats On Feb 27 |

    New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha elections saw 41 candidates getting elected without any opposition on Tuesday, including former Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, BJP president J P Nadda, Union ministers Ashwini Vaishnaw and L Murugan, and BJP’s new entrant Ashok Chavan. The remaining 15 seats in Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh will go to polls on February 27. The BJP emerged as the biggest winner, securing 20 seats, followed by the Congress (6), Trinamool Congress (4), YSR Congress (3), RJD (2), BJD (2) and NCP, Shiv Sena, BRS and JD(U) one each. The returning officers declared these 41 candidates as winners on the last date of withdrawal of nominations, as there were no other contenders for these seats.

    The biennial elections were scheduled for February 27 in 56 seats. Out of these, 50 members will retire on April 2 and six on April 3. The voting for 10 seats in Uttar Pradesh, four in Karnataka and one in Himachal Pradesh will take place from 9 am to 4 pm and the counting will start from 5 pm on the same day.

    Nadda and his party colleagues Jasvantsinh Parmar, Mayank Nayak and diamond tycoon Govindbhai Dholakia won from Gujarat. The Congress, which has only 15 MLAs, and other opposition parties did not field any candidates against the BJP, which has 156 legislators in the 182-member Gujarat assembly.

    Sonia Gandhi was among the three candidates who won from Rajasthan, along with BJP’s Chunnilal Garasiya and Madan Rathore.

    Maharashtra also saw six candidates getting elected unopposed – BJP’s Chavan, who switched from the Congress last Tuesday, Medha Kulkarni and Ajit Gopchhade; Shiv Sena’s Milind Deora, who quit the Congress last month, Praful Patel (NCP) and Chandrakant Handore (Cong).

    In Bihar, JD(U)’s Sanjay Kumar Jha, BJP’s Dharmshila Gupta and Bhim Singh, Manoj Kumar Jha and Sanjay Yadav (both RJD) and Akhilesh Prasad Singh (Congress) were the winners.

    Uttar Pradesh will have a contest for 10 seats among 11 candidates. The BJP has nominated eight candidates – former Union minister R P N Singh, former MP Chaudhary Tejveer Singh, state party general secretary Amarpal Maurya, former state minister Sangeeta Balwant, party spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi, former MLA Sadhna Singh, former Agra mayor Naveen Jain and local industrialist and ex-SP leader Sanjay Seth who joined the BJP in 2019.

    The Samajwadi Party (SP) has renominated Jaya Bachchan and also named former MP Ramjilal Suman and retired IAS officer Alok Ranjan as its candidates.

    In Karnataka, four seats will see a fight among five candidates. The Congress has put up Ajay Maken, Syed Naseer Hussain and GC Chandrasekhar, while Narayansa Bandage is the BJP candidate. JD(S) leader and ex-Rajya Sabha member D Kupendra Reddy is also in the fray.

    In Himachal Pradesh, the BJP has forced a contest by fielding Harsh Mahajan against Congress’s Abhishek Manu Singhvi for the lone seat despite lacking enough MLAs to win.

    In the evening, TMC’s Sushmita Dev, Sagarika Ghose, Mamata Thakur and Md Nadimul Haque and Samik Bhattacharya (BJP) were the winners from West Bengal.

    Union minister Murugan, Valmiki Dham Ashram head Umesh Nath Maharaj, Kisan Morcha’s national vice president Banshilal Gurjar, and Madhya Pradesh BJP’s women wing president Maya Naroliya secured four seats for the BJP in Madhya Pradesh while Ashok Singh of the Congress also won without any opposition.

    From Odisha, Union minister Vaishnaw (BJP) and BJD’s Debashish Samantray and Subhashish Khuntia were the winners.

    The YSR Congress bagged all the three seats in Andhra Pradesh – G Babu Rao, Y V Subba Reddy and M Raghunath Reddy while in neighbouring Telangana, the ruling Congress won two seats – Renuka Chowdhury and Anil Kumar Yadav – and BRS one seat – V Ravichandra.

    BJP nominees in Uttarakhand (Mahendra Bhatt), Subhash Barala (Haryana), Devendra Pratap Singh (Chhattisgarh) won without any contest.

  • ‘This Time They Will Be Wiped Out Of Parliament’: Mallikarjun Kharge On BJP’s ‘400 Seats’ Claim |

    NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday claimed that the Narendra Modi-powered BJP won’t be able to cross 400 seats in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections and it will be wiped out of Parliament. Speaking to reporters in Amethi, Kharge said, “I said – they (BJP) keep saying that they will cross 400 (LS seats), but this time they will be out of Parliament.” The Congress president hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying his guarantee is not for the farmers, labourers, Dalits, tribal and backward people of the country.

    Denying any rift with the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party, Kharge said, ‘”Everything will be alright. He has agreed and our people have agreed too. There is no problem.”  Kharge on Saturday criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government and described it as a ‘curse’ for the country’s farmers. 

     

    #WATCH | In UP’s Amethi, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge says, “I said – they (BJP) are saying that they will cross 400 (LS seats), but this time they will be out of Parliament.” https://t.co/mr3cU5wfmC
    — ANI (@ANI) February 19, 2024

     

    Interestingly, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav today made his participation in the Congress’ Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra conditional to a decision on seat sharing, saying that he will be joining it the moment the seats for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections are distributed between the two parties. “Right now talks are going on, lists have come from their side and from ours as well, the moment the seats are distributed and decided, the Samajwadi Party will join Congress’s Nyaya Yatra,” Yadav said speaking to reporters on Monday.

    The Congress president accused the Modi government of treating farmers like enemies. Kharge asserted that only the Congress party can provide farmers with the legal right to a Minimum Support Price (MSP).

    “The Modi government is a curse for the country’s food-providing farmers. Due to the continuous false ‘Modi’s Guarantee’, first 750 farmers lost their lives, and now, yesterday, one farmer lost his life and 3 have lost their eyesight due to rubber bullets. The Modi government has treated farmers like enemies, Only Congress will give them the legal right of MSP!” he said in a post on ‘X’.

    Taking a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his poll promises, Kharge said the former is the chief of all liars as he failed to even fulfil what he had promised during his 2014 poll campaign.

    “I want to ask him what happened to the promises he made during 2014–he never fulfilled those. Modiji jhuton ka sardar hai (PM Modi is the chief of liars),” Kharge said addressing party workers at an event hosted by Maharashtra Congress in Pune.

    The Congress national president said people keep praising PM Modi despite the latter not doing much work in the last 10 years.
    Kharge cautioned that if such a scenario continues, the Constitution will “vanish”.

    “PM Modi keeps lying…you all know what he did in the last ten years. Still, people praise him…if this continues, then there will soon come a day when the Constitution will vanish. We are waging a fight to protect the Constitution and have to keep fighting,” he said.

    Describing Prime Minister Modi as “individualistic,” Kharge alleged that the former does not even take his party’s name while announcing his “guarantees.” “PM Modi keeps on saying that this is Modi ki Guarantee…he never uses his party name. He is very individualistic and full of himself,” the Congress president said.

    Claiming further that the BJP had no role in the country’s freedom struggle, Kharge added, “We are fighting for the country and its founding ideals all over again. The BJP had no role or contribution to our freedom struggle. We fought for the country.”

    Taking a dig at the Congress, PM Modi earlier this month said that even Opposition leader Mallikarjun Kharge has predicted the return of the NDA government with over 400 seats. 

    PM Modi made this remark during his response to the Motion of Thanks on the President’s address in Lok Sabha.

    During a session in the Rajya Sabha on February 2, Kharge inadvertently coined what would become a rallying cry for the BJP, stating “Abki Baar, 400 Paar,” which translates to “This time, over 400 seats.”

    “Our third tenure is not far away, a maximum of 100-125 days are left. The entire nation is saying ‘abki baar, 400 paar’. Even Kharge ji said that,” PM Modi said while replying to the Motion of Thanks on the President’s address in Lok Sabha.

    He expressed confidence that the BJP would not only secure a third term but also achieve an impressive victory by winning over 370 seats individually and crossing the 400 mark with the support of the NDA bloc. Modi’s remarks were met with laughter, including his own, as he acknowledged Kharge’s statement, suggesting that even the opposition leader seemed to predict the ruling party’s electoral success.

    Modi further criticised the Congress party, implying that they had become comfortable in their role as the opposition and were preparing to occupy the spectators’ gallery in Parliament. He also took a veiled swipe at Rahul Gandhi and the Congress party’s alleged nepotism, criticizing the repeated promotion of the same leadership without success.

    PM Modi indirectly referenced Rahul Gandhi by stating that the Congress is on the brink of shutting down its shop, emphasizing that they keep trying to relaunch the same product repeatedly.

  • Nitish First Now Chandrababu Naidu, Read BJP’s Big Poll Plan To Ace North And South In 2024 |

    New Delhi: The BJP is looking confident for the Lok Sabha elections after the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya. The party is trying to win as many seats as possible in the Hindi-speaking regions. It is also not hesitating to woo the allies of the Congress. We have seen the examples of Maharashtra and Bihar, where the BJP has formed governments with the help of former Congress allies. There are also rumours of the Rashtriya Lok Dal, which is part of the Akhilesh-Rahul team in UP, joining hands with the BJP. However, this trend is not limited to the North only.

    Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu is travelling to Delhi on Wednesday and is likely to meet Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP chief JP Nadda, sources said. Meanwhile, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar has also left for Delhi. He is coming by a chartered plane from Patna airport. This is his first Delhi visit after returning to the NDA. He will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah. During this visit, the seat-sharing for the Lok Sabha elections may be discussed.

    BJP’s ‘Mission South’

    The BJP is also working hard to increase its vote base in the southern states, albeit at a slow pace. Just before the inauguration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, PM Narendra Modi had visited the temples in Kerala. He had addressed the BJP workers in Kochi. He had praised the BJP workers for keeping the BJP flag flying in Kerala despite the adverse circumstances. He had bowed his head before them.

     

    #BreakingNews: आज दिल्ली आएंगे चंद्रबाबू नायडू, अमित शाह, जेपी नड्डा से कर सकते हैं मुलाकात-सूत्र#ChandrababuNaidu #AmitShah #BJP #JPNadda | @JournoPranay @ravindrak2000 pic.twitter.com/sNt5QCoFpE
    — Zee News (@ZeeNews) February 7, 2024

    Now, a big political event is going to take place in Kerala on February 13. The Kerala Janapaksham (Secular) party will merge with the BJP in the presence of Home Minister Amit Shah. The party’s chief PC George said that on the same day, 112 members of the party’s state committee will be given the membership of the BJP. This event will take place in the capital Thiruvananthapuram. Shah is going to visit there next week.

    The BJP is focusing on 84 out of 131 seats in South India. The tours of PM Modi and Shah are an indication of this. The BJP’s position is good in Telangana and Karnataka, where it will try to win more than 35 seats. Some experts also say that the BJP is not looking at the Lok Sabha elections but the assembly elections in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. As far as Kerala is concerned, the BJP is expected to get 4-5 seats this time. Last time, the party was second on two seats.

    The fact is, the saffron party has a charismatic face in the form of PM Narendra Modi. The crowd that gathers in the rallies in North India translates into votes, but not in South India. The BJP is moving ahead in the direction of forming alliances with the regional parties of the South. Something similar has been seen in North India as well to achieve the political equations. Repeating this experiment, the BJP may get some new allies in the South.

    Chandrababu Naidu’s Delhi Visit

    Naidu, who was once a key ally of the BJP, had parted ways with the NDA in 2018 over the issue of special status for Andhra Pradesh. He had joined hands with the Congress and other opposition parties to form a grand alliance against the BJP. However, his party, the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), suffered a humiliating defeat in the 2019 assembly and Lok Sabha elections, losing power to the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) led by Jagan Mohan Reddy.

    Since then, Naidu has been facing a series of challenges, both political and legal. His party has been accused of corruption and mismanagement by the YSRCP government, which has also launched investigations against several TDP leaders. Naidu himself is facing a CBI probe in a disproportionate assets case. His party has also witnessed defections and desertions, as many of his former loyalists have switched sides to the ruling party.

    In this scenario, Naidu is looking for a political revival and a possible reconciliation with the BJP. He may seek the BJP’s support to counter the YSRCP’s onslaught and to protect his party’s interests. He may also offer to support the BJP in the Lok Sabha elections in exchange for some concessions from the Centre. There is a strong possibility of him joining the NDA again, if the BJP agrees to his terms and conditions.

    Former AIADMK leaders join the BJP in the presence of Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar and Tamil Nadu BJP President K Annamalai, in Delhi.

     

    #WATCH | Former AIADMK leaders join the BJP in the presence of Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar and Tamil Nadu BJP President K Annamalai, in Delhi. pic.twitter.com/luFuXalMdn


    — ANI (@ANI) February 7, 2024

    BJP’s Tamil Nadu Strategy

    On Tuesday, the BJP welcomed several former AIADMK leaders into its fold, in the presence of Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar and Tamil Nadu BJP President K Annamalai, in Delhi. Among them were former ministers KP Munusamy, C Ve Shanmugam, CV Sankar, and Nainar Nagendran, former MPs K Malaisamy and Manoj Pandian, and former MLA Vetrivel. They were given BJP membership cards and saffron scarves by the BJP leaders.

    The BJP hopes that these leaders will help the party to expand its base and influence in Tamil Nadu, where it has been struggling to make a mark. 

  • Mumbai slums | Now not a lot to stay on

    With an eye fixed at the polls, the Maharashtra govt pronounces a number of steps for the ones coated underneath Mumbai’s slum redevelopment tasks. However stalled tasks and an alleged pro-builder bias are undoing any just right intent

    REDOING SHANTYTOWN: A swathe of Mumbai’s Dharavi slum, with tenement highrises for citizens in its midst. (Picture: Milind Shelte)

    Mumbai,ISSUE DATE: Oct 9, 2023 | UPDATED: Sep 29, 2023 19:15 IST

    With the Lok Sabha and state meeting polls in 2024 drawing close to, the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration (BJP)-Nationalist Congress Birthday celebration (NCP) govt in Maharashtra goes all-out to woo the tough slum-dweller vote financial institution in Mumbai. The state govt has determined to allot flats in slum redevelop­ment schemes at Rs 2.5 lakh to citizens of shanties that experience arise between 2000 and 2011. It’s estimated that this may increasingly quilt round 1.6-1.8 million other people as their slums are redeveloped within the coming years. Slum-dwellers whose homes had been built sooner than 2000 are legally secure and eligible free of charge housing. Many are housed in 300 sq. ft apartments underneath Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) tasks.

  • Highway to 2024: INDIA bloc to carry first joint public rally in Bhopal subsequent month

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    NEW DELHI:  Making ready the bottom for the approaching state and Lok Sabha elections, the Opposition INDIA bloc on Wednesday determined to start out seat-sharing talks on the earliest and dangle its first joint public rally in Bhopal in October first week.

    The selections have been taken on the first assembly of the bloc’s coordination and election technique committee at NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s Delhi place of abode. It used to be attended by way of 12 member events. TMC chief Abhishek Banerjee may no longer make it as he used to be summoned by way of the Enforcement Directorate. 

    A joint remark after the assembly mentioned the committee determined to carry joint public conferences in several portions of the rustic. The events additionally agreed to soak up the problem of caste census. But even so, the panel accepted the sub-committee on media to attract up a listing of TV information anchors the INDIA events will boycott. 

    Whilst lots of the leaders wired an early determination on seat sharing, they mentioned state-level committees can be shaped for negotiations. On the bloc’s Mumbai assembly, TMC, JD(U), AAP, and RJD pressed for an early determination on seat sharing. When requested concerning the tussle between the AAP and the Congress in states like Delhi, Haryana and Punjab, AAP chief Raghav Chadha mentioned the ones problems will probably be mentioned. 

    Nationwide Convention chief Omar Abdullah instructed that seats already held by way of allies must no longer be open for dialogue. “We must speak about the ones seats which can be held by way of both the BJP, NDA or events no longer a part of any alliance. It’s been determined that events will nominate their more than a few representatives at no matter ranges suitable for them to start out dialogue,” he mentioned. 

    NEW DELHI:  Making ready the bottom for the approaching state and Lok Sabha elections, the Opposition INDIA bloc on Wednesday determined to start out seat-sharing talks on the earliest and dangle its first joint public rally in Bhopal in October first week.

    The selections have been taken on the first assembly of the bloc’s coordination and election technique committee at NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s Delhi place of abode. It used to be attended by way of 12 member events. TMC chief Abhishek Banerjee may no longer make it as he used to be summoned by way of the Enforcement Directorate. 

    A joint remark after the assembly mentioned the committee determined to carry joint public conferences in several portions of the rustic. The events additionally agreed to soak up the problem of caste census. But even so, the panel accepted the sub-committee on media to attract up a listing of TV information anchors the INDIA events will boycott. googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Whilst lots of the leaders wired an early determination on seat sharing, they mentioned state-level committees can be shaped for negotiations. On the bloc’s Mumbai assembly, TMC, JD(U), AAP, and RJD pressed for an early determination on seat sharing. When requested concerning the tussle between the AAP and the Congress in states like Delhi, Haryana and Punjab, AAP chief Raghav Chadha mentioned the ones problems will probably be mentioned. 

    Nationwide Convention chief Omar Abdullah instructed that seats already held by way of allies must no longer be open for dialogue. “We must speak about the ones seats which can be held by way of both the BJP, NDA or events no longer a part of any alliance. It’s been determined that events will nominate their more than a few representatives at no matter ranges suitable for them to start out dialogue,” he mentioned. 

  • Seat sharing, ballot technique on desk at INDIA bloc’s’s first Coordination Committee meet

    Via PTI

    NEW DELHI: Negotiations at the seat-sharing system and evolving a wide outlay of marketing campaign technique forward of the Lok Sabha elections will likely be prime at the schedule of the primary assembly of the opposition INDIA bloc’s Coordination Committee on Wednesday.

    The assembly of the 14-member all-important panel of the opposition will happen on the place of dwelling of NCP chief Sharad Pawar right here on September 13 night time.

    Resources stated that leaders of a number of opposition events have sought an early seat-sharing system to be labored out to be sure that a joint candidate is publish from the opposition aspect towards the BJP applicants in Lok Sabha seats.

    Alternatively, a number of leaders stated that the events must “shed their egos” and “vested pursuits” in arriving at this kind of system.

    Whilst no determination has been taken at the standards, it’s more likely to be in keeping with the efficiency of events on a selected seat in fresh polls.

    A supply acutely aware of the main points stated the problem of seat sharing will likely be addressed, despite the fact that it might not be finalised in Wednesday’s assembly.

    The leaders may also lay a wide outlay of the election marketing campaign for taking at the BJP, the assets stated.

    Forward of the assembly, panel member Raghav Chadha stated it’s going to have discussions on problems like attaining out to other people, making plans joint rallies and understanding door-to-door campaigns, which will likely be other for every state.

    “Each political birthday party must sacrifice 3 issues to make this alliance a success – ambition (‘mahatvakanksha), distinction of opinion (mathbhed) and manbhed,” Chadha stated.

    The coordination cum election technique committee of the opposition’s INDIA bloc has 14 individuals – Okay C Venugopal (Congress), T R Baalu (DMK), Hemant Soren (JMM), Sanjay Raut (Shiv Sena-UBT), Tejashwi Yadav (RJD), Raghav Chadha (AAP), Javed Ali Khan (SP), Lalan Singh (JD-U), D Raja (CPI), Omar Abdullah (Nationwide Convention), Mehbooba Mufti (PDP), Abhishek Banerjee (TMC), and a member from CPI-M.

    Abhishek Banerjee, who was once summoned by means of the Enforcement Directorate to look earlier than it at the similar day, won’t attend the assembly.

    The CPI-M has no longer but nominated any member to the committee and will likely be absent on the assembly as smartly.

    Birthday celebration assets stated a choice on who will constitute CPI-M will likely be taken at its Polit Bureau assembly scheduled on September 16-17.

    On the first assembly of the Opposition bloc in Patna in June, it was once made up our minds that the most powerful candidate from every seat could be picked up for the Lok Sabha polls.

    The solution issued on September 1, after the 3rd assembly of the bloc, stated the events would contest polls in combination “so far as conceivable”, and that seat sharing in preparations in several states could be “initiated in an instant” and concluded “on the earliest”.

    Consistent with opposition leaders, whilst states like Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Bihar are taken care of, others like Delhi, Punjab and West Bengal usually are difficult.

    The assembly may also center of attention on finalising campaigns and rallies to be held within the coming days.

    Leaders may also have a look at the choices taken in conferences of the other sub-groups just like the marketing campaign committee, operating staff on media, analysis and social media sub-groups.

    “A last form will likely be given to the schedule together with what will be the programmes and the place the marketing campaign will likely be held.

    It’ll all be deliberated upon,” a supply stated.

    Over two dozen opposition events have shaped the Indian Nationwide Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) to take at the BJP-led Nationwide Democratic Alliance unitedly within the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

    NEW DELHI: Negotiations at the seat-sharing system and evolving a wide outlay of marketing campaign technique forward of the Lok Sabha elections will likely be prime at the schedule of the primary assembly of the opposition INDIA bloc’s Coordination Committee on Wednesday.

    The assembly of the 14-member all-important panel of the opposition will happen on the place of dwelling of NCP chief Sharad Pawar right here on September 13 night time.

    Resources stated that leaders of a number of opposition events have sought an early seat-sharing system to be labored out to be sure that a joint candidate is publish from the opposition aspect towards the BJP applicants in Lok Sabha seats.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Alternatively, a number of leaders stated that the events must “shed their egos” and “vested pursuits” in arriving at this kind of system.

    Whilst no determination has been taken at the standards, it’s more likely to be in keeping with the efficiency of events on a selected seat in fresh polls.

    A supply acutely aware of the main points stated the problem of seat sharing will likely be addressed, despite the fact that it might not be finalised in Wednesday’s assembly.

    The leaders may also lay a wide outlay of the election marketing campaign for taking at the BJP, the assets stated.

    Forward of the assembly, panel member Raghav Chadha stated it’s going to have discussions on problems like attaining out to other people, making plans joint rallies and understanding door-to-door campaigns, which will likely be other for every state.

    “Each political birthday party must sacrifice 3 issues to make this alliance a success – ambition (‘mahatvakanksha), distinction of opinion (mathbhed) and manbhed,” Chadha stated.

    The coordination cum election technique committee of the opposition’s INDIA bloc has 14 individuals – Okay C Venugopal (Congress), T R Baalu (DMK), Hemant Soren (JMM), Sanjay Raut (Shiv Sena-UBT), Tejashwi Yadav (RJD), Raghav Chadha (AAP), Javed Ali Khan (SP), Lalan Singh (JD-U), D Raja (CPI), Omar Abdullah (Nationwide Convention), Mehbooba Mufti (PDP), Abhishek Banerjee (TMC), and a member from CPI-M.

    Abhishek Banerjee, who was once summoned by means of the Enforcement Directorate to look earlier than it at the similar day, won’t attend the assembly.

    The CPI-M has no longer but nominated any member to the committee and will likely be absent on the assembly as smartly.

    Birthday celebration assets stated a choice on who will constitute CPI-M will likely be taken at its Polit Bureau assembly scheduled on September 16-17.

    On the first assembly of the Opposition bloc in Patna in June, it was once made up our minds that the most powerful candidate from every seat could be picked up for the Lok Sabha polls.

    The solution issued on September 1, after the 3rd assembly of the bloc, stated the events would contest polls in combination “so far as conceivable”, and that seat sharing in preparations in several states could be “initiated in an instant” and concluded “on the earliest”.

    Consistent with opposition leaders, whilst states like Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Bihar are taken care of, others like Delhi, Punjab and West Bengal usually are difficult.

    The assembly may also center of attention on finalising campaigns and rallies to be held within the coming days.

    Leaders may also have a look at the choices taken in conferences of the other sub-groups just like the marketing campaign committee, operating staff on media, analysis and social media sub-groups.

    “A last form will likely be given to the schedule together with what will be the programmes and the place the marketing campaign will likely be held.

    It’ll all be deliberated upon,” a supply stated.

    Over two dozen opposition events have shaped the Indian Nationwide Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) to take at the BJP-led Nationwide Democratic Alliance unitedly within the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

  • Rahul & Priyanka set to sign up for padyatra as Uttarakhand Congress gears up for 2024 LS election

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    DEHRADUN:  In a bid to seize a minimum of 3 of the 5 parliamentary seats from the ruling BJP in Uttarakhand forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the Congress is making plans to achieve out to the hundreds on key problems associated with the state via a padyatra, which is able to proceed for 2 months in all constituencies around the state.

    Crucial assembly was once organised at Congress Bhavan on Monday in regards to the arrangements for the padyatra. Talking to this day-to-day, state president Karan Mahra stated, “The way in which the Agneepath scheme was once imposed at the early life, the unemployed lot are feeling cheated. Alternatively, within the Ankita Bhandari case, there’s a consistent cover-up from the federal government and the police management. Who’s the VIP? Other people were asking however there was no solution.” 

    This padyatra will go via nearly all of the assemblies and is predicted to turn out to be a medium of verbal exchange with the general public. State in-charge Devendra Yadav stated, “Uttarakhand neither were given the good thing about ‘double engine executive nor did the state broaden. Rahul Gandhi is easily acutely aware of the location in Uttarakhand, so he’s occupied with the state, this is why he has promised to offer a very long time for padyatra in Uttarakhand”. 

    He himself needs to connect to the folk of Uttarakhand and proportion their ache and sorrow.
    Considerably, each the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Celebration have nearly equivalent enhance base in Uttarakhand.

    Yatra in Maharashtra

    With the 2024 Lok Sabha polls drawing near, Maharashtra Congress has determined to start early arrangements to keep away from its deficient efficiency in 2014 and 2019 throughout all 48 constituencies. The state Congress has determined to hide the duration and breadth of Maharashtra via a padyatra and then tere might be a bus yatra.

    DEHRADUN:  In a bid to seize a minimum of 3 of the 5 parliamentary seats from the ruling BJP in Uttarakhand forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the Congress is making plans to achieve out to the hundreds on key problems associated with the state via a padyatra, which is able to proceed for 2 months in all constituencies around the state.

    Crucial assembly was once organised at Congress Bhavan on Monday in regards to the arrangements for the padyatra. Talking to this day-to-day, state president Karan Mahra stated, “The way in which the Agneepath scheme was once imposed at the early life, the unemployed lot are feeling cheated. Alternatively, within the Ankita Bhandari case, there’s a consistent cover-up from the federal government and the police management. Who’s the VIP? Other people were asking however there was no solution.” 

    This padyatra will go via nearly all of the assemblies and is predicted to turn out to be a medium of verbal exchange with the general public. State in-charge Devendra Yadav stated, “Uttarakhand neither were given the good thing about ‘double engine executive nor did the state broaden. Rahul Gandhi is easily acutely aware of the location in Uttarakhand, so he’s occupied with the state, this is why he has promised to offer a very long time for padyatra in Uttarakhand”. googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    He himself needs to connect to the folk of Uttarakhand and proportion their ache and sorrow.
    Considerably, each the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Celebration have nearly equivalent enhance base in Uttarakhand.

    Yatra in Maharashtra

    With the 2024 Lok Sabha polls drawing near, Maharashtra Congress has determined to start early arrangements to keep away from its deficient efficiency in 2014 and 2019 throughout all 48 constituencies. The state Congress has determined to hide the duration and breadth of Maharashtra via a padyatra and then tere might be a bus yatra.

  • The go back of Lalu

    Prison, sickness and the pandemic could have stored the septuagenarian RJD leader off the political degree, however he’s again, energising his celebration’s cadre in addition to the nationwide Opposition alliance

    ISSUE DATE: Aug 14, 2023 | UPDATED: Aug 4, 2023 16:23 IST

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    ISSUE DATE: Aug 14, 2023 | UPDATED: Aug 4, 2023 16:15 IST

    IN THE DOLE-DRUMS: KCR with the beneficiary of a housing scheme in Sangareddy district, June 22 (Picture: ANI)

    The going is getting difficult for Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) supremo and Telangana leader minister Ok. Chandrashekar Rao. KCR, as he’s popularly recognized, unearths himself subsidized right into a nook and not using a takers for his nationwide foray, barring a couple of farmer leaders in neighbouring Maharashtra. Again house, he has to struggle the rising sentiment of anti-incumbency as he seeks a 3rd consecutive time period within the Telangana meeting election later this yr.

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