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A general election spread over two months is always a gruelling exercise, particularly during the summer season. This time it is expected to be even tougher, with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) forecasting prolonged heat waves during April and May.
Continuing with its welfare drive ahead of the Haryana Assembly elections, and with voters from Other Backward Classes (OBC) in mind, the BJP-led government has enhanced the OBC creamy layer annual income cap from Rs 6 lakh to Rs 8 lakh and increased reservation for the backward classes in panchayats, municipal corporations, and municipalities.
Less than four months before the Haryana Assembly elections, the state Congress continues to be beset with factionalism and infighting. As a consequence, another state party in-charge, All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary Deepak Babaria, is now facing the heat from rival factions as they jockey to gain an upper hand ahead of the high-stakes polls.
In the backdrop of a woman contractual staffer levelling molestation allegations against West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose, the Raj Bhavan on Wednesday said it would show the related CCTV footage to 100 people on Thursday, except “politician” Mamata Banerjee and “her police”.
Amid scorching heat and with a seat already decided, the more than 4.9 crore voters of Gujarat will decide the fate of 266 candidates for the remaining 25 parliamentary and five Assembly constituencies on Tuesday. Among those who will vote are Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who will exercise their in the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency.
As all eyes remain peeled for who the Congress names from Amethi and Raebareli in Uttar Pradesh — till the early hours of Friday there were no indications from the party — and if the Gandhi siblings enter the fray, a political firestorm has hit West Bengal.
NO ONE in the BJP minority cell wants to talk about their now-expelled Bikaner unit president, Usman Gani. Days afterGani was expelled from the BJP over remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech referring to Muslims, and two days after he was arrested for alleged “breach of peace”, party leaders are quiet, as are Gani’s family members.
Back in the 1990s, Kota Srinivas Poojary was a regular speaker at campaign events for K Jayaprakash Hegde, canvassing for the then Janata Dal leader in the erstwhile Assembly seat of Brahmavar in Karnataka’s Udupi district. Three decades on, much has changed for the two. Poojary is now the BJP candidate from the Udupi-Chikmagalur Lok Sabha constituency, taking on Hegde for whom he once sought votes.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a rally in Aligarh of Uttar Pradesh on Monday, a day after his comments at a poll rally in Rajasthan sparked a row.