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BY NOMINATING Chandrakant Handore as its candidate from Maharashtra for the Rajya Sabha elections, the Congress is not only attempting to reach out to the Dalit community, but also trying to make amends for June 2022 Legislative Council election fiasco, when Handore had lost despite requisite numbers on the Congress’s side.
Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole addresses the charge by some quarters that Ashok Chavan and other departures from the party have happened due to him. Claiming that the Congress’s voter base has not shifted despite its leaders moving to other parties, Patole also asserted that the party will win the upcoming Lok Sabha polls in Maharashtra. Excerpts from an interview:
A HUSHED blame game has started in the Maharashtra Congress after the resignation of former chief minister Ashok Chavan from the party, close on the heels of two other leaders quitting the state unit.
While the INDIA alliance of Opposition parties faces the prospects of allies walking out, the NDA in Maharashtra seems to be facing a problem of plenty as coalition partners Shiv Sena led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and the Republican Party of India (Athawale) have staked claim to the Shirdi Lok Sabha seat.
A picture of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar’s son Parth Pawar meeting a Pune-based strongman with a criminal record hit the headlines on Friday, bringing in a lot of attention. But not the kind an up-and-coming politician would have anticipated or wanted.
The Ram Temple in Ayodhya may have been inaugurated but having happened just months before the Lok Sabha elections, it will most likely remain an election issue. While the BJP will do its best to utilise the issue for electoral gains, having completed one of its main political projects, how the Opposition continues to engage with the Ram Temple issue in the coming days will be equally fascinating to observe.
When senior Congress leader and former Maharashtra chief minister Sushil Kumar Shinde made the startling claim last Wednesday that he had been approached by the BJP twice to join its fold, he was looking to project the state BJP’s policy of expansion, which would involve the ruling party’s bid to ensure the decimation of the Opposition players, especially the Congress.
Maharashtra Speaker Rahul Narwekar’s decision on Wednesday not to disqualify MLAs from either faction of the Shiv Sena is likely to prove beneficial for the BJP, especially in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.