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As the poll battle in West Bengal heats up, Sandeshkhali has emerged as the focal point, with the BJP zeroing in on allegations of sexual abuse of women in the area by strongmen of the ruling Trinamool Congress.
With its first list of Lok Sabha candidates out, the poll season is well underway for the BJP. Of the 195 candidates announced across 18 states, 79, or less than half, are new faces compared to the BJP’s 2019 Lok Sabha list, as the confident ruling party looks to hit its ambitious target of 370 seats set by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Five days after he tore into the Trinamool Congress (TMC)-led West Bengal government over the Sandeshkhali row, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be back in West Bengal on Wednesday to address a rally in Barasat in North 24 Parganas and is expected to again take on the Mamata Banerjee-led party over the issue.
The BJP’s first list of candidates and the Union Council of Ministers’ last meeting before the Lok Sabha polls in which a confident Modi government set its post-poll roadmap. With that completed over the weekend, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday will begin a whirlwind tour of 12 states and Union Territories over the next 10 days. This comes before the Election Commission (EC) announces the parliamentary election schedule and the Model Code of Conduct kicks in.
SET TO announce the Lok Sabha poll schedule in the coming days, the Election Commission has spent the past few months updating the electoral rolls. While the list will continue to be updated till the last date of filing of nominations by candidates, the EC said in early February that so far it had registered 96.9 crore voters for the general elections, up by 6% from 91.2 crore in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Since the beginning of 2023 alone, the EC has added 2.63 crore new voters.
With the CPI announcing senior leader Annie Raja as its candidate from the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat, currently represented by Rahul Gandhi, the question of a constituency for the Congress leader has resurfaced.
In a shock result, the BJP emerged victorious on Tuesday in the election for the single vacant Rajya Sabha seat in Himachal Pradesh, where the Congress is in power, with 40 MLAs in the 68-member Assembly. While the defeat is embarrassing for the Congress, which was expecting its nominee, senior Supreme Court advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, to sail through, now there is a possibility of its government collapsing, should it fail to pass the Budget in the ongoing Session.
The extended saga of the Opposition INDIA bloc’s seat-sharing talks in Uttar Pradesh, that saw the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) switch sides to the NDA and senior partner Samajwadi Party (SP) announce its candidates before its seat-sharing deal with the Congress was concluded, was finally sealed last week.