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In 1996, Hoshiarpur elected Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Kanshi Ram to the Lok Sabha. Almost three decades later, Jeevan Singh Tamil, previously known as Jeevan Kumar Mall, is looking to revive the BSP founder’s legacy with his Bahujan Dravid Party (BDP) and some help from Guru Nanak Dev, the first Sikh guru.
The Jat-dominated Hisar Lok Sabha seat, which has not seen a woman candidate in six decades, is witnessing a battle of the Chautala bahus this year. Naina Chautala, the sitting MLA of the Jannayak Janta Party (JJP), founded by her son and former Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana Dushyant Chautala, is squaring off against Sunaina Chautala, her sister-in-law and the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) candidate.
The “Dilli Chalo” movement by farmers in February to seek a legal guarantee for minimum support price (MSP) may have been cut short at the Shambhu border between Punjab and Haryana where protesters continue to camp, but its repercussions are being felt by BJP leaders in the two poll-bound states.
For Punjab Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Bhagwant Singh Mann, the Lok Sabha elections are doubly important. Firstly, he believes they are a litmus test for the future of democracy in the country. And, secondly, he thinks it would be a reality check for his two-year-old government. In a freewheeling interview with The Indian Express, CM Mann speaks on a range of issues, including the AAP’s plans to overcome the arrest of party supremo and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and the Opposition INDIA bloc’s face-off with the BJP. Excerpts:
“He will teach the BJP a lesson.” That is how a group of youngsters in Karnal reacted when Dushyant Chautala’s newly minted Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) won 10 seats in their first poll outing in the October 2019 Assembly elections. Less than five years on, it is the BJP that appears to have done so.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Raghav Chadha recently found himself amid a political storm after British Labour Party MP Preet Kaur Gill posted on social media about their meeting in London last week to discuss “global health security”.
“Captain Cool” — this is how his teammates at the Jindal Panther Polo Team describe Naveen Jindal, the 54-year-old flamboyant industrialist who is making a comeback to electoral politics after a hiatus of 10 years.
Not many were surprised when the son of six-time Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh and state PWD minister Vikramaditya Singh offered his resignation from the Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu Cabinet on Wednesday while accusing the latter of humiliating his father, deepening the political crisis in the hill state following the party’s loss in the poll for the sole Rajya Sabha seat a day earlier.