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With days to go before Lok Sabha elections conclude in Maharashtra in the fifth phase on May 20, the state’s Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis sits down with The Indian Express to discuss his assessment of the ground situation in the state, coordination problems between the members of the ruling Mahayuti alliance, Sharad Pawar, and Uddhav Thackeray.
WITH 1,371 cases of rioting alone between 2019 and 2023, mostly on religious grounds, the Hazaribagh Lok Sabha seat in Jharkhand is highly polarised – a factor that is believed to have helped the BJP win the last two times here by a substantial margin.
THEIR ALLIANCE having failed to make a dent the last time they got together in Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party and Congress are working overtime to put up a united fight against the BJP as the Lok Sabha elections move towards the fourth and fifth phases.
Every morning, Sonali Vinayak Gavit sets out on a rickety tempo for Umbarpada in Gujarat’s Surat district where she works. The interesting aspect of the 25-year-old’s journey is that she is not a resident of Gujarat. Sonali lives in the village of Panbara in the Navapur taluka of Maharashtra’s Nandurbar district.
AS FAR as debuts go, the two scions couldn’t have asked for a better stage than Samastipur, once represented in the Lok Sabha by legendary socialist leader and two-time Bihar chief ministerKarpoori Thakur. The timing too is propitious, with Bihar having finished just months ago a caste survey, a natural progression of the quota system pioneered by Thakur. Days later, the Narendra Modi government awarded Thakur the Bharat Ratna.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will cover three states on Friday. His busy schedule begins with a public rally at 11.30 am in Nandurbar, Maharashtra, followed by rallies in Telangana at 3.15 pm in Mahabubnagar and at 5.30 pm in Hyderabad.
THERE IS hardly any election conversation in Odisha where his name doesn’t come up. Till recently a top bureaucrat, V K Pandian is now the virtual No. 2 of the ruling BJD in the state and the man who has the ears of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. He is also the main target of the BJP’s attack, which hopes to stall the BJD in its home state, where it has been in power now for over 24 years. As the two parties, which briefly contemplated an alliance, now take on each other as prime rivals, Pandian recently said the BJP may try to form the government by any means if it gets 50-60 seats in Assembly polls. Excerpts from an interview with Pandian at Gopalpur, before he left for his day’s campaign:
North Karnataka’s districts encompassing 14 Lok Sabha seats – where the BJP made a clean sweep in the 2019 polls riding the Narendra Modi wave – are going to polls Tuesday in the second and final phase of voting in the state (third phase in India), with local factors appearing to be more at play than national ones.