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With more than one score to settle against its former stalwart Amarinder Singh, the Congress is going all out to wrest the Patiala Lok Sabha seat, which has been a long-standing citadel of the ex-chief minister and head of the erstwhile Patiala royal family.
The nameplate on the house in Patna’s Boring Road area reads: “Prasad and Associates”. This is the residence of senior BJP leader and ex-Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, the ruling party’s candidate for the high-profile Patna Sahib Lok Sabha seat.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s claim at public rallies in Nahan and Mandi last week that hundreds of crores of rupees in flood relief funds allocated to Himachal Pradesh were disbursed indiscriminately by the Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu-led state government, has triggered a flurry of counter accusations by Congress leaders.
While caste is one of the major drivers of the electoral discourse and voting patterns in India, for several youngsters in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj district unemployment and the Agnipath recruitment scheme are at the top of their agenda. This is apparent in the Phulpur Lok Sabha seat, which votes on Saturday, and comprises five of the 12 Assembly segments in Prayagraj district: Allahabad North, Allahabad West, Soraon, Phaphamau, and Phulpur.
The Ambedkar Nagar Lok Sabha constituency has always been a stronghold of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), with its supremo Mayawati creating the Ambedkar Nagar district in 1995 when she became the Uttar Pradesh chief minister for the first time.
In the five years that the BJP was out of power in Rajasthan, starting in 2018, Kirodi Lal Meena filled a vacuum in the state unit as he emerged as the face of street protests against the Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government despite not holding any official position in the party. Now, a state Cabinet minister, Meena, has trained his guns on his own government over alleged corruption, sending ripples through the party at a time when it is in the middle of the Lok Sabha elections.
Attacking the Congress and its first family as the ancien régime, vikas and vishwaguru, and holding out the promise of Viksit Bharat by 2047: These themes have been a refrain in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speeches since the elections were notified on March 16. After the release of the Congress manifesto on April 5, the rhetoric swerved towards Hindu-Muslim issues and the idea of wealth redistribution and religion-based reservation at the expense of SC/STs and OBCs.
With campaigning for the 49 Phase 5 seats ending on Saturday, parties are turning their attention to the 58 seats going to polls in Phase 6, including all seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi and all 10 in Haryana.