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Bracing for a formidable fight against top Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in the Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP’s candidate and state minister Dinesh Pratap Singh is also facing some discontent in the ruling party’s local camp, which has made his challenge tougher.
The “Dilli Chalo” movement by farmers in February to seek a legal guarantee for minimum support price (MSP) may have been cut short at the Shambhu border between Punjab and Haryana where protesters continue to camp, but its repercussions are being felt by BJP leaders in the two poll-bound states.
The thirteen seats going to polls in Uttar Pradesh on Monday, the fourth phase of the Lok Sabha elections, include constituencies close to the Samajwadi Party’s heart. However, for the past two general elections, the BJP has won them all, barring Kannauj, which was in 2014 won by the SP’s Dimple Yadav.
Kicking off the second half of the Lok Sabha elections, 96 constituencies in 10 states and Union Territories (UTs) will go to polls on Monday.
The thirteen seats going to polls in Uttar Pradesh on Monday, the fourth phase of the Lok Sabha elections, include constituencies close to the Samajwadi Party’s heart. However, for the past two general elections, the BJP has won them all, barring Kannauj, which was in 2014 won by the SP’s Dimple Yadav.
“We have good schemes for women, elderly people and youngsters. Naveen (Patnaik) babu has taken care of us very well,” says Sharat Kanar, a resident of Kadligarh village in Sambalpur district, who would be the first-time voter in the simultaneous Odisha Assembly (147 seats) and Lok Sabha (21 seats) elections beginning May 13.
One-and-a-half months ago, close on the heels of the Punjab BJP president Sunil Jakhar’s announcement that the party will go solo in the Lok Sabha elections in the state, three-time Congress MP Ravneet Singh Bittu, 48, joined the BJP in Delhi in the presence of its national president J P Nadda.
“Saari batein aapko batani zaroori nahin hain (It’s not necessary to tell you everything),” says former Haryana chief minister and Congress Legislature Party leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda when asked if more MLAs on the BJP side are in touch with him.