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  • 8 Cong MLAs joined BJP with none prerequisites, says Goa CM Pramod Sawant

    By means of PTI

    PANAJI: Goa Leader Minister Pramod Sawant on Wednesday mentioned 8 MLAs of Congress have joined the ruling Bharatiya Janata Birthday party (BJP) unconditionally.

    Addressing a press convention with state BJP leader Sadanant Shet Tanavade, Sawant mentioned that BJP’s energy within the 40-member Meeting has long past as much as 28 with the 8 new entrants.

    The executive minister mentioned 8 of the 11 MLAs of Congress, together with former leader minister Digambar Kamat, have joined the BJP.

    “With these days’s building, the BJP now enjoys the strengthen of 33 MLAs (together with two of the Maharashtravadi Gomantak Birthday party and 3 Independents). Those Congress MLAs have joined the BJP unconditionally,” Sawant mentioned.

    Taking a dig, Sawant mentioned ‘the Congress chhodo yatra’ has begun from Goa and exuded self assurance that the BJP will win every other Lok Sabha seat in Goa within the subsequent elections.

    Of the 2 Lok Sabha seats within the coastal state, the BJP and the Congress constitute one every.

    “Within the 2024 polls, Top Minister Narendra Modi might be re-elected with the strengthen of greater than 400 MPs,” he added.

    PANAJI: Goa Leader Minister Pramod Sawant on Wednesday mentioned 8 MLAs of Congress have joined the ruling Bharatiya Janata Birthday party (BJP) unconditionally.

    Addressing a press convention with state BJP leader Sadanant Shet Tanavade, Sawant mentioned that BJP’s energy within the 40-member Meeting has long past as much as 28 with the 8 new entrants.

    The executive minister mentioned 8 of the 11 MLAs of Congress, together with former leader minister Digambar Kamat, have joined the BJP.

    “With these days’s building, the BJP now enjoys the strengthen of 33 MLAs (together with two of the Maharashtravadi Gomantak Birthday party and 3 Independents). Those Congress MLAs have joined the BJP unconditionally,” Sawant mentioned.

    Taking a dig, Sawant mentioned ‘the Congress chhodo yatra’ has begun from Goa and exuded self assurance that the BJP will win every other Lok Sabha seat in Goa within the subsequent elections.

    Of the 2 Lok Sabha seats within the coastal state, the BJP and the Congress constitute one every.

    “Within the 2024 polls, Top Minister Narendra Modi might be re-elected with the strengthen of greater than 400 MPs,” he added.

  • RS polls: With shut contest anticipated in different states, events sweat it out to stay flock in combination

    Via PTI

    NEW DELHI/JAIPUR/MUMBAI: Forward of the June 10 Rajya Sabha polls, political temperatures had been hovering in different states that might see shut contests, with events looking to stay their flock in combination and buying and selling accusations of poaching of MLAs.

    After greater than 20 years, Maharashtra will witness a competition within the Rajya Sabha polls as there are seven applicants within the fray for 6 seats.

    The Shiv Sena has made up our minds to shift its MLAs to a five-star lodge in south Mumbai to push back overtures and the ruling MVA leaders had been maintaining talks with smaller events and Independents backing the tripartite dispensation.

    Maharashtra | Shiv Sena MLAs being shifted to a lodge in Malad, Mumbai forward of the Rajya Sabha elections %.twitter.com/BdZOI8CuBJ

    — ANI (@ANI) June 6, 2022

    The BJP has requested its MLAs to return to Mumbai within the subsequent two days. “We had been in ‘The Retreat’ (at Madh island in northwest Mumbai) and all our ministers too had been provide there. We can be shifting to lodge ‘The Trident’ (in south Mumbai),” Sena MLA and birthday party spokesperson Sunil Prabhu stated.

    The Trident is a stone’s throw from the Maharashtra Legislative Meeting the place vote casting will happen.

    Within the 288-member Area, smaller events have 16 MLAs in combination whilst the collection of Independents is 13. A complete of 7 candidates- BJP (3), Shiv Sena (2), NCP (1), and Congress (1)- are within the fray for the six RS seats. The competition for the 6th seat is between BJP’s Dhananjay Mahadik and Sena’s Sanjay Pawar.

    Mumbai | Forward of June 10 RS polls, assembly of Maha Vikas Aghadi companions begins- Shiv Sena, Congress, NCP talk about the tactic. Maharashtra CM & Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, NCP’s Sharad Pawar, Congress’ Mallikarjun Kharge amongst others provide at Trident %.twitter.com/JqPLg63saI

    — ANI (@ANI) June 7, 2022

    In Rajasthan, the BJP wrote to the Enforcement Directorate and the Rajasthan leader electoral officer, expressing apprehensions about horse-trading and the usage of black cash within the Rajya Sabha polls.

    The Chief of Opposition within the state Meeting, Gulab Chand Kataria, Rajasthan BJP president Satish Poonia, Deputy Chief of Opposition Rajendra Rathore and birthday party whip Jogeshwar Garg accused the Congress of misusing govt equipment to intimidate MLAs.

    Their response got here as Rajasthan police serve a understand to BJP legislator Chandrakanta Meghwal in a five-year-old attack case.

    Meghwal, who’s tenting in Jaipur with different MLAs of the birthday party forward of elections to the higher area, didn’t seem on the police station in Kota.

    ALSO READ | Congress complains to EC over ‘horse-trading’ in Rajya Sabha polls in Rajasthan

    After the awareness, the opposition BJP accused Leader Minister Ashok Gehlot of hatching a conspiracy however an aide of the Congres chief brushed aside the fee announcing the case in opposition to Meghwal was once registered when the BJP was once in energy.

    The Congress had shifted its MLAs to Udaipur on June 2, announcing it fears horse-trading through the BJP.

    Congress chief Mahesh Joshi gave a letter to the executive electoral officer challenging motion in opposition to alleged horse-trading makes an attempt.

    Joshi, on the other hand, didn’t identify any individual or any birthday party within the criticism. He had additionally given a identical criticism to the Anti-Corruption Bureau on Sunday. Elections to 4 seats of the Rajya Sabha from the state will happen on June 10.

    ALSO READ | Understand to Rajasthan MLA in five-year-old case, BJP hyperlinks it to Rajya Sabha polls

    Whilst the Congress can simply win two and the BJP one, the competition is for the fourth seat for which the BJP is backing Unbiased candidate Subhash Chandra.

    Chandra claimed that 8 Congress MLAs would possibly vote for him and requested former deputy leader minister Sachin Pilot to additionally pass facets. This might be a chance for Pilot to avenge his “humiliation”, the media baron advised newshounds.

    Pilot, on the other hand, suggested Chandra to withdraw from the competition to keep away from being humiliated. “An recommendation to the Unbiased candidate of Rajasthan — Higher to be out of the competition prior to vote casting on tenth. It’s higher to be humble than to be humiliated,” he tweeted.

    “Sadly politics isn’t like creating a TV sequence the place you make a decision who will do what,” he stated, focused on the media baron.

    In the meantime, an reputable commentary claimed the 2 legislators of the Bharatiya Tribal Birthday party (BTP) have made up our minds to strengthen the ruling Congress after assembly Gehlot.

    Alternatively, the legislators stated they need to keep in a circuit area or another position than the lodge the place different Congress legislators are tenting, in keeping with the commentary.

    Six applicants are within the fray for the Rajya Sabha ballot to 4 seats from Karnataka, resulting in a heated contest for the fourth seat. The Congress on Tuesday appealed to the ‘secular MLAs’ to forged their ‘judgment of right and wrong votes’ for his or her candidate Mansoor Ali Khan.

    Congress Karnataka unit leader D Okay Shivakumar stated he and previous Leader Minister Siddaramaiah had been making this attraction to everybody within the Karnataka Meeting. Providing to business 2nd choice votes with the Congress, JD(S) chief H D Kumaraswamy stated his primary time table is to defeat the BJP.

    The previous leader minister additionally claimed that even though JD(S) manages to get the 22 2nd choice votes from the Congress, it is going to be in a number one place.

    In spite of now not having the ok collection of votes to win the fourth seat from the state Meeting, the entire 3 political events within the state — BJP, Congress and JD(S) — have fielded applicants for the seat, forcing an election.

    “My primary time table is that BJP will have to face a defeat, I am able for it. After Congress Normal Secretary in-charge of Karnataka Randeep Singh Surjewala known as me, I calculated and feature in my opinion knowledgeable him that we (JDS) are able to switch our 32 2nd choice votes to Congress, however need their (Congress) 24 2nd choice votes in go back,” Kumaraswamy stated.

    Chatting with newshounds, he stated he does not have a greater be offering than this to make and requested Congress to end up its “secular dedication”.

    The six applicants within the fray for Rajya Sabha polls from the state are – Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, actor-politician Jaggesh and outgoing MLC Lehar Singh Siroya from the BJP, former Union Minister Jairam Ramesh and state common secretary Mansoor Ali Khan from the Congress, and previous MP D Kupendra Reddy from the JD(S).

    In spite of the JD(S) in search of strengthen to make sure Reddy’s election to the Higher Area of the parliament, the Congress didn’t withdraw its 2nd candidate Khan from the fray and has issued a whip to all its MLAs asking them to vote for the birthday party’s applicants.

    There are talks inside political circles that the BJP is also if choice votes had been to be counted and Congress and JD(S) do not come to any working out.

  • Lone lady amongst 10 ministers to be inducted in Punjab cupboard on Saturday

    Through PTI

    CHANDIGARH: Ten ministers, together with a lady, will probably be inducted within the Bhagwant Mann executive in Punjab on Saturday.

    A few of the 10 ministers, 8 are first-time MLAs. The swearing-in rite of the Mann’s cupboard will probably be held at Punjab Raj Bhawan at 11 am, officers mentioned.

    In a tweet on Friday night, Bhagwant Mann put out an image giving names of the ten celebration MLAs who will probably be sworn-in as ministers and congratulated them.

    They come with Harpal Singh Cheema, second-time legislator from Dirba and the celebration’s Dalit face. He used to be additionally the Chief of the Opposition within the earlier Meeting.

    Two-time Barnala MLA Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer may even discover a berth within the Mann-led cupboard.

    Different MLAs to be inducted within the cupboard are Dr Baljit Kaur, Harbhajan Singh from Jandiala, Dr Vijay Singla from Mansa, Lal Chand from Bhoa, Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal from Ajnala, Laljit Singh Bhullar from Patti, Brahm Shanker from Hoshiarpur and Harjot Bains from Anandpur Sahib.

    There are 18 berths within the cupboard, together with the executive minister.

    After their oath-taking, the newly inducted ministers will suppose fee within the Punjab Civil Secretariat and the primary cupboard assembly of the AAP executive will probably be held within the afternoon, resources mentioned.

    Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit had on Wednesday administered the oath of workplace and secrecy to Bhagwant Mann in a rite at Khatkar Kalan, the ancestral village of freedom fighter Bhagat Singh.

    The Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration romped house with 92 seats within the 117-member Punjab meeting, decimating the Congress and the Shiromani Akali Dal-Bahujan Samaj Birthday celebration mix.

  • Battered through defections however Congress desires large in Manipur

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    IMPHAL: The Congress in Manipur misplaced part its MLAs, most commonly to the ruling BJP over the last 5 years, however the celebration isn’t brief on self assurance. It believes the BJP’s alleged misgovernance will see the grand outdated celebration via within the upcoming polls.

    “We gained’t be suffering from the defections (of our MLAs) as a result of a few of those that left have no longer were given tickets. A number of BJP leaders additionally defected to different events after being denied tickets,” Manipur Congress leader Nameirakpam Loken Singh, who’s contesting the polls from the Nambol seat within the Imphal Valley, advised TNIE. He mentioned all over the ultimate elections, other folks had reposed their religion within the BJP but it surely allow them to down.

    “They failed to provide jobs to the adolescence in ultimate 5 years and claim the result of some aggressive checks. The federal government claims it’s blank however it’s doing a large number of corruption,” Singh alleged.

    He mentioned the state govt additionally did not pay those that had carried out paintings beneath the Mahatma Gandhi Nationwide Rural Employment Ensure Act because it diverted cash within the identify of preventing the pandemic.

    The Congress has no longer but declared the identify of its leader ministerial candidate and is depending at the seasoned flesh presser Okram Ibobi Singh, who’s a former CM, to heat as much as the citizens. “The MLAs will make a decision the CM face after the celebration’s victory. All wings of the Congress are operating exhausting for victory. We will be able to be in energy. We hope to get 32 seats,” Singh mentioned with a bit of luck.

    Given the political scenario, other folks, who apply Manipur politics intently, felt the Congress puffed up its possibilities. “The Congress misplaced part its MLAs. Many of the closing 13-14 MLAs are more likely to get re-elected. We would possibly be expecting the celebration to win 10-12 of the state’s 60 seats. It may well be 15 at the upper facet,” Prof L Rajen of Manipur College advised TNIE.

    He used to be no longer very positive concerning the possibilities of the rest Congress applicants. He mentioned the Janata Dal (United) would possibly win two-three seats and the Nationwide Other folks’s Birthday party greater than 10. “Lots of the NPP applicants are wealthy and that is more likely to lend a hand the celebration,” Rajen mentioned.

    “The NPP is not on just right phrases with best friend BJP. They’re overtly criticising and accusing every different. The BJP could also be extra visual in comparison to different events however our persons are delicate and they aren’t very ok with the way in which the BJP operates,” he added.