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  • Congress conundrum: Gehlot remains closeted along with his confidantes at Jaipur; delays assembly Sonia

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    Rajasthan Leader Minister Ashok Gehlot remained closeted along with his confidantes in Jaipur on Wednesday thereby delaying his assembly with Congress intervening time president Sonia Gandhi by means of an afternoon whilst Rahul Gandhi contiued along with his Bharat Jodo Yatra.

    Gehlot was once at first scheduled to go away Jaipur at 5.30 PM on Wednesday. However his departure was once not on time. “The Leader Minister goes to Delhi at 5-5.30 pm nowadays to specific the emotions of 102 MLAs, as their dad or mum, with the birthday celebration management and organisation,” cupboard minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas informed journalists after a gathering with the executive minister.

    But even so Khachariyawas, Meeting Speaker C P Joshi, PCC president Govind Singh Dotasra, Minister Shanti Dhariwal, and Mahesh Joshi additionally met the executive minister.

    Gehlot reached Delhi overdue on Wednesday overdue night time. He’s anticipated to fulfill Sonia nowadays.
    Gehlot seems to be at the offensive regardless of the Prime Command reportedly bracing as much as crack the whip on Gehlot loyalists’ and ministers Shanti Dhariwal and Mahesh Joshi. The 2 spearheaded the protest towards signing the answer authorising Sonia Gandhi to nominate a brand new Leader Minister after Gehlot information the nomination papers for the birthday celebration presidential polls. Gehlot and his loyalists are figjting enamel and nail the prime command’s transfer to make Sachin Pilot as Rajasthan Leader Minister if Gehlot is going directly to transform birthday celebration president.

    Gehlot isn’t averse to giving up leader ministership and coming into the presidential race. However he does no longer wish to quit rate within the state to Pilot. He says he would quit the executive ministership to any person from the 102 MLAs who had stayed unswerving to the birthday celebration when Pilot had walked out, however no longer the latter.

    As suspense over whether or not or no longer Gehlot would conform to renounce from the publish of leader minister to report the nomination continues, names of many Congress leaders who’re most likely aspirants for the publish have began doing the rounds. Amongst them are the birthday celebration’s most sensible Dalit leaders together with, chief of opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, AICC normal secretary Mukul Wasnik, former Maharashtra leader minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, former Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, and previous Haryana president of Congress Kumari Selja.

    ALSO READ| Rajasthan political disaster: Congress in a catch 22 situation even because it displays Gehlot his position

    Gandhi circle of relatives loyalists Ambika Soni, who is regarded as as regards to Sonia Gandhi, and previous leader minister of Madhya Pradesh Digvijaya Singh, who stocks an in depth non-public equation with Rahul Gandhi, also are a few of the frontrunners. Birthday celebration treasurer Pawan Kumar Bansal’s title could also be being discussed as a conceivable contender for the publish after he took a nomination shape from the Congress place of job.

    On Wednesday, Sonia Gandhi consulted senior birthday celebration leaders Ambika Soni and A Okay Antony, who was once referred to as from Kerala the place he’s main a retired existence, at the Rajasthan disaster. She was once suggested to fulfill Gehlot one ultimate time to take a look at and iron out the diversities.

    The 2 central observers – Ajay Maken and Mallikarjun Kharge – have shielded Gehlot of their document after coming back from Jaipur the place they weren’t in a position to fulfill the birthday celebration MLAs unswerving to the executive minister. Those MLAs are antagonistic to the management’s plan to switch Gehlot along with his former deputy Sachin Pilot and refused to signal a answer authorising the birthday celebration president to select Gehlot’s successor.

    Rajasthan Leader Minister Ashok Gehlot remained closeted along with his confidantes in Jaipur on Wednesday thereby delaying his assembly with Congress intervening time president Sonia Gandhi by means of an afternoon whilst Rahul Gandhi contiued along with his Bharat Jodo Yatra.

    Gehlot was once at first scheduled to go away Jaipur at 5.30 PM on Wednesday. However his departure was once not on time. “The Leader Minister goes to Delhi at 5-5.30 pm nowadays to specific the emotions of 102 MLAs, as their dad or mum, with the birthday celebration management and organisation,” cupboard minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas informed journalists after a gathering with the executive minister.

    But even so Khachariyawas, Meeting Speaker C P Joshi, PCC president Govind Singh Dotasra, Minister Shanti Dhariwal, and Mahesh Joshi additionally met the executive minister.

    Gehlot reached Delhi overdue on Wednesday overdue night time. He’s anticipated to fulfill Sonia nowadays.
    Gehlot seems to be at the offensive regardless of the Prime Command reportedly bracing as much as crack the whip on Gehlot loyalists’ and ministers Shanti Dhariwal and Mahesh Joshi. The 2 spearheaded the protest towards signing the answer authorising Sonia Gandhi to nominate a brand new Leader Minister after Gehlot information the nomination papers for the birthday celebration presidential polls. Gehlot and his loyalists are figjting enamel and nail the prime command’s transfer to make Sachin Pilot as Rajasthan Leader Minister if Gehlot is going directly to transform birthday celebration president.

    Gehlot isn’t averse to giving up leader ministership and coming into the presidential race. However he does no longer wish to quit rate within the state to Pilot. He says he would quit the executive ministership to any person from the 102 MLAs who had stayed unswerving to the birthday celebration when Pilot had walked out, however no longer the latter.

    As suspense over whether or not or no longer Gehlot would conform to renounce from the publish of leader minister to report the nomination continues, names of many Congress leaders who’re most likely aspirants for the publish have began doing the rounds. Amongst them are the birthday celebration’s most sensible Dalit leaders together with, chief of opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, AICC normal secretary Mukul Wasnik, former Maharashtra leader minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, former Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, and previous Haryana president of Congress Kumari Selja.

    ALSO READ| Rajasthan political disaster: Congress in a catch 22 situation even because it displays Gehlot his position

    Gandhi circle of relatives loyalists Ambika Soni, who is regarded as as regards to Sonia Gandhi, and previous leader minister of Madhya Pradesh Digvijaya Singh, who stocks an in depth non-public equation with Rahul Gandhi, also are a few of the frontrunners. Birthday celebration treasurer Pawan Kumar Bansal’s title could also be being discussed as a conceivable contender for the publish after he took a nomination shape from the Congress place of job.

    On Wednesday, Sonia Gandhi consulted senior birthday celebration leaders Ambika Soni and A Okay Antony, who was once referred to as from Kerala the place he’s main a retired existence, at the Rajasthan disaster. She was once suggested to fulfill Gehlot one ultimate time to take a look at and iron out the diversities.

    The 2 central observers – Ajay Maken and Mallikarjun Kharge – have shielded Gehlot of their document after coming back from Jaipur the place they weren’t in a position to fulfill the birthday celebration MLAs unswerving to the executive minister. Those MLAs are antagonistic to the management’s plan to switch Gehlot along with his former deputy Sachin Pilot and refused to signal a answer authorising the birthday celebration president to select Gehlot’s successor.

  • Rajya Sabha polls to 57 seats from 15 states on June 10: Election Fee

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    NEW DELHI: Elections shall be hung on June 10 to fill 57 Rajya Sabha seats from 15 states falling vacant because of the retirement of participants on other dates between June and August, the Election Fee stated on Thursday.

    Distinguished amongst the ones retiring are Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Congress leaders Ambika Soni, Jairam Ramesh and Kapil Sibal, and BSP’s Satish Chandra Misra.

    Individuals are retiring between June 21 and August 1.

    Whilst 11 seats are falling vacant in Uttar Pradesh, six participants every are retiring from Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra, 5 from Bihar and 4 every from Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan and Karnataka.

    3 participants every from Madhya Pradesh and Odisha, two every from Telangana, Chhattisgarh, Punjab Jharkhand and Haryana, and one from Uttarakhand also are retiring.

    The notification for the polls shall be issued on Might 24 and vote casting shall be hung on June 10.

    In step with established follow, counting will happen an hour after the belief of polling.

    Lots of the new participants who get elected are prone to vote within the President’s election, due someday in July.

  • Congress leader Sonia Gandhi bureaucracy panel to test on Prashant Kishor’s technique paper for 2024 polls

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    NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi has shaped a three-member committee comprising birthday celebration veterans AK Antony, Ambika Soni and Mallikarjun Kharge to inspect election strategist Prashant Kishor’s technique paper for contesting the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The committee has been requested to publish its file in every week.

    Kishor had made a three-hour presentation at Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s place of dwelling on April 16. It used to be attended through former Congress president Rahul Gandhi, Basic secretary Priyanka Gandhi, and senior leaders AK Antony, Ambika Soni, Mallikarjun Kharge, Digvijay Singh, Mukul Wasnik, KC Venugopal,  Jairam Ramesh and Ajay Maken, but even so the Congress president.

    Within the presentation, Kishor defined the errors the birthday celebration has been making and introduced an alternate plan that might assist the birthday celebration be triumphant on the hustings.

    Amongst his tips used to be to center of attention birthday celebration sources on winnable seats, which he stated have been simplest 370 out of Lok Sabha’s overall energy of 543. He stated Congress is a smart product which lacks right kind advertising and marketing. He used to be in particular important of the birthday celebration’s media technique.

    He brushed apart the emerging communal polarization as a trifling factor and stated it might be countered through galvanizing and empowering staff on the sales space degree. He stated the birthday celebration must combat by itself in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, and input into alliance in states like Andhra, Telangana, West Bengal and Maharashtra.

    After the presentation, Sonia requested the leaders about their opinion at the presentation. Assets stated Digvijay Singh and AK Antony gave the impression no longer very inspired through the proposal. Digvijay stated that is precisely what the birthday celebration had stated after its closing two chintan shivirs at Pachmarhi and Shimla. Antony stated lots of the issues discussed within the proposal have been very similar to the ones he had discussed in his file after the birthday celebration’s loss in 2014.

    The reaction of others used to be muted. However Jairam Ramesh used to be filled with reward for the guidelines introduced through Kishor and stated they have been value attempting.

    Kishor confronted a clumsy second all the way through the assembly. When he referred to media stories about his appointment as Congress common secretary, and stated he isn’t hankering after any birthday celebration place, Kharge lower him off and stated “PK, did not you come back to me asking me to suggest you to be made Congress vice-president.”

    After the assembly Congress leaders stated it used to be now positive that Kishor would sign up for the birthday celebration. He would possibly, then again, no longer get the quantity two slot within the birthday celebration. Going through what Kharge stated all the way through the assembly and what key birthday celebration functionaries really feel, Kishor were bargaining for a submit subsequent to simply the Congress president. He’s reportedly all for reporting simplest to the Congress president.

    Congress assets stated some leaders have been of the view that sooner than giving him complete accountability of strategizing the 2024 common elections, he must be requested to end up the efficacy of his plan within the approaching state elections.

    “Elections are due in over a dozen states sooner than the 2024 Lok Sabha election. Congress holds a bit of over 400 seats out of the 1500 plus seats in those states. Let him first assist the birthday celebration toughen its tally in those states sooner than taking a large chew,” stated a senior Congress chief.

    Kishor has already introduced that he can be a part of a political birthday celebration through Would possibly 2, when his sabbatical ends.