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Riding high on last year’s Assembly election victory, the Congress in Telangana has set a target of winning 14 of the state’s 17 Lok Sabha seats in the polls but is facing its first major test amid a water crisis.
The top brass of the BJP and Congress will campaign aggressively on Wednesday, the last day of campaigning for the first phase of the Lok Sabha polls to be held on April 19.
With barely five days left for the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections to get underway, the incumbent BJP is releasing its poll manifesto on Sunday morning, which is expected to showcase its plank of vikas (development), welfare and Hindutva besides a roadmap for “Viksit Bharat” (developed India).
The alleged Khichdi scam has continued to roil Maharashtra politics, with expelled Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam raking up the row and targeting the Shiv Sena (UBT) after the Uddhav Thackeray-led party announced Amol Kirtikar as its candidate for the Mumbai North West seat for the Lok Sabha polls.
Making her debut in electoral politics, the Ajit Pawar-led NCP’s Baramati candidate Sunetra Pawar said it was her duty towards husband, Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar that made her contest the election. She is taking on family member and sitting MP Supriya Sule, daughter of NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar and winner of the past three Lok Sabha elections, in the Pawar bastion.
WITH CONGRESS leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of “match-fixing” in the Lok Sabha polls by using central law enforcement agencies, at least three former Chief Election Commissioners (CECs) told The Indian Express that the recent actions of the Income Tax (I-T) Department and Enforcement Directorate (ED) against opposition parties and their leaders have the potential to disrupt the level playing field during elections.
To take on the ruling BJP as well as the Opposition INDIA bloc in Jammu and Kashmir in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, three local parties – Ghulam Nabi Azad’s Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP), Altaf Bukhari’s J&K Apni Party and the Sajjad Lone-led J&K Peoples Conference – are set to forge an alliance and form a third front in the Union Territory.
In January 2021 in Karnataka, shortly after the then BJP chief minister B S Yediyurappa inducted seven new ministers into his Cabinet, a row broke out with some BJP dissidents alleging that the CM was “blackmailed” with a private video to make some of these appointments.