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Ending weeks of suspense and uncertainty, the Congress Friday announced its candidates for the traditional Gandhi family seats of Amethi and Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh, but with a twist. Senior leader Rahul Gandhi has switched to Rae Bareli, perhaps a safer seat than Amethi, from where he lost to Union minister Smriti Irani in 2019, while his sister and AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is not contesting.
On Wednesday, the social media handles of Prime Minister Narendra Modi put out a short 1.15-minute video clip with a caption “for me, the Constitution is sacred. It is supreme.” The video opens with Modi — at the campaign rally in Zaheerabad in Telangana Tuesday — saying the Constitution is a “holy book” for him and that he was the only Chief Minister who celebrated the 60 years of the Indian Constitution.
The unusually long time the Congress is taking to name its candidates for the traditional Nehru-Gandhi family seats of Amethi and Raebareli is baffling party leaders and workers alike. Adding to the intrigue, sources claimed that both Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra appear reluctant to contest, and last-minute efforts are said to be on to convince the two – or at least one of them – to enter the fray.
A day after he triggered a political backlash by saying that a Congress government would distribute the nation’s wealth among “infiltrators” and “those who have more children”, suggesting that the party meant Muslims, Prime Minister Narendra Modi repeated on Monday that the Opposition party and INDIA bloc were “eyeing people’s earnings and property”.
A day after the nomination of the Congress candidate from Surat was rejected, the BJP’s Mukesh Dalal was declared elected uncontested from the Lok Sabha seat, after the eight remaining nominees withdrew one by one.
SAYING THAT Scheduled Castes (SCs) still face discrimination across the country, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday accused the BJP government of “humiliating” President Droupadi Murmu and her predecessor Ram Nath Kovind “because they are Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe”. He said Murmu was not invited to the Ram Temple consecration in Ayodhya and the inauguration of the new Parliament building, while Kovind was not allowed to lay the foundation stone of the new Parliament building.
Having begun his political journey at Jawaharlal Nehru University, shot to limelight as the original face of “the tukde-tukde gang”, and contested a failed Lok Sabha election on a CPI candidate from Begusarai in Bihar in 2019, Kanhaiya Kumar is now the Congresscandidate from the North East Delhi Lok Sabha constituency. He is facing a tough contest in the seat against two-time sitting BJP MP and fellow Poorvanchali face, Manoj Tiwari.
If the Opposition INDIA alliance is voted to power, will its government revive the Old Pension Scheme (OPS), repeal the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), bring in reservation for jobs in the private sector, abolish the Governor’s post or tweak its appointment process, scrap Article 356, and restore special status to Jammu and Kashmir? The answer to these questions will depend on which of the INDIA party’s manifesto for the Lok Sabha polls are you reading.