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The BJP got a reprieve on the farmer front the past few days, with the protesters having called a pause. However, with no end to the agitation in sight yet as the farmers meet again Thursday, the party may find it harder to continue riding two boats, as it has been doing – in Punjab, supporting the farmers; and in Haryana, defending its government’s crackdown against them.
The renewed farmers’ protest demanding a legal guarantee for Minimum Support Price (MSP) has made political parties alter their strategies, especially with the Lok Sabha elections just round the corner.
Following the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)’s announcement to go solo in Punjab in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, the state Congress has recommended multiple names for each of the state’s 13 Lok Sabha seats to the AICC-constituted screening committee led by Bhakta Charan Das.
Dealing a blow to the Opposition INDIA alliance, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced on Saturday that his party will contest all 13 parliamentary constituencies in Punjab as well as the Chandigarh seat in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls on its own steam.
A seven-judge Bench of the Supreme Court Wednesday reserved its judgmenton the permissibility of sub-classification within SC/ST reservations. The Court is examining whether its judgment in E V Chinnaiah vs State of Andhra Pradesh & Others (2004) — where it ruled that Scheduled Castes (SCs) form a homogenous class and that there cannot be any subdivision among them — needs a relook.
Even as Punjab Congress attempts to push back against the party high command’s efforts to strike a seat-sharing bargain with the Congress in the state, a widening rift within is now on the top of the problems it faces. In the middle of it is former state unit president Navjot Singh Sidhu who is facing calls for disciplinary action for holding addressing events on his own.