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In the five-phase elections for the 48 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra that wrapped up on Monday, with the Mahayuti and Maha Vikas Aghadi coalitions locked in intense battle, five groups which will be a deciding factor are the Marathas, OBCs, Muslims, Dalits and tribals.
In Madhya Pradesh’s Dr Ambedkar Nagar town, formerly known as Mhow, golden busts of Gautam Buddha and B R Ambedkar mounted on blue columns serve as a shrine for the Dalit community in the slum cluster of Rajendra Nagar.
By the end of polling on Tuesday, covering 93 constituencies across 11 states and UTs, more than half of the country’s total seats would have wrapped up polling. Fears of “change in the Constitution” and “reservation quotas” remained the main theme in this phase, whose seats were swept by the BJP in the 2019 polls. The twin issues also dominated the coverage of the Urdu dailies over the week, which also captured the suspense and drama surrounding the declaration of Congress candidates in Amethi and Rae Bareli, which went down to the wire.
With Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah saying on the campaign trail that the BJP would put an end to religion-based reservation if voted to power in Telangana, its Andhra Pradesh ally Telugu Desam Party (TDP) is in a pickle. Like Telangana, Andhra Pradesh also provides a 4% quota to some Muslim communities under the Other Backward Classes (OBC) category in education and jobs.
WITH two rival Shiv Sena factions caught in a battle for political one-upmanship, and the AIMIM seeking to retain the seat, the Aurangabad Lok Sabha contest is seeing the fault lines crisscrossing Maharashtra – a state that has seen much political upheaval in the past five years – converge in the constituency.
In the BJP’s Beed district office, the visitors are greeted by a large cutout of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as they take the swirling steel staircase leading up to the first floor. Inside the chamber of the party’s district chief Rajendra Maske there, a smiling portrait of Maharashtra BJP stalwart late Gopinath Munde adorns a wall as people breeze in and out of the busy office.
With party president and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday nominating Lekhasri Samantasunghar from Balasore, the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in Odisha is again set to field 33% women in the Lok Sabha elections.
Having steered the Maratha quota Bill through the House, the Maharashtra government appears to have decided to not treat activist Manoj Jarange Patil with kid gloves any more.