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The Budget Session of Parliament concludes on Saturday, with both Houses set to pass a resolution thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi for overseeing the construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, which was inaugurated on January 22. A long-held ideological goal of the BJP, the temple is expected to play a major role in the party’s messaging for the coming Lok Sabha elections.
In his final speech in the Lok Sabha on Monday, while replying to the Motion of Thanks on President Droupadi Murmu’s address, Prime Minister Narendra Modi set a target of 370 seats for the ruling BJP in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections and 400 seats for the NDA.
Amid the tumult in the INDIA bloc, with the JD(U) walking out in Bihar and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) ruling out alliances in West Bengal and Punjab, respectively, the Samajwadi Party (SP) sprang a surprise when its chief Akhilesh Yadav apparently unilaterally announced Saturday that the party would give the Congress 11 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh.
Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal (United) supremo Nitish Kumar has struck an alliance with the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) once again, making it the fourth time in the past decade that he has switched sides.
On Wednesday, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee said seat-sharing with the Congress in the state’s Lok Sabha seats was off the table. The dispute arose over the number of seats the TMC was ready to give to the Congress as part of the INDIA alliance, with the Congress rejecting the offer of the 2 Lok Sabha seats that it had won in the previous polls.
The Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), both members of the Opposition INDIA bloc, on Friday made a crucial announcement on seat-sharing negotiations. The RLD, the parties decided, would contest seven of Uttar Pradesh’s 80 Lok Sabha seats in the coming elections. Notably, the RLD has never won more than five parliamentary seats in UP in a single election.
Parties have begun their campaign efforts for the Lok Sabha elections – with the BJP focusing its energies on the consecration of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya on January 22, even as the Congress rests its hopes on Rahul Gandhi’s east-to-west, 6,700-km Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra.