Decode Politics: Why is the BJP talking of Emergency again?
Under attack from the Opposition over alleged attempts to “change the Constitution”, the BJP has fallen back on the Emergency card.
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TMC, Uddhav Sena explore options, ask Akhilesh to reach out to Chandrababu Naidu and Nitish Kumar
The INDIA bloc may have decided to wait and watch developments unfolding in the NDA camp and “take appropriate steps at the appropriate time”, but some parties in the Opposition alliance, particularly the TMC and Shiv Sena (UBT), and, to some extent the AAP, are pushing hard for exploring options to shore up the bloc numbers to checkmate the BJP.
Newsmaker | SP Dalit leader who triumphed over BJP in Ayodhya: Who is Awadhesh Prasad?
The Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, consecrated in January, marked the completion of one of the Sangh Parivar’s ideological goals and was initially expected to boost the BJP’s prospects in the Lok Sabha elections. But as the party took a big hit in Uttar Pradesh, with its tally almost halved, one of its most prominent losses was in the Faizabad Lok Sabha constituency of which Ayodhya is a part.
SP may wrest Azamgarh stronghold back as key Muslim leader crosses sides
The Samajwadi Party is haunted by the memories of the defeat in its bastion of Azamgarh in a bypoll in June 2022, which was necessitated after party chief Akhilesh Yadav vacated the Lok Sabha constituency to become Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly. This time, though, the party seems to be in a better position – after having managed to get the “main factor” for their defeat in the bypoll on their side.
In Yadav bastions won by BJP last time, a reconsolidation around Mulayam’s nephews
Esar Rizvi, 32, and friend Mohammad Faizuddin, 34, have devised a test to determine whom to vote for this time in the Firozabad Lok Sabha seat. They are making rounds of the election offices of both the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), located 300 metres apart in Firozabad town, to see “which party treats us, and hence Muslim voters, better”.
The late Mulayam may still decide the race as Akhilesh, Dimple pick up the baton
SAMAJWADI PARTY chief Akhilesh Yadav has a lot at stake in the coming Lok Sabha elections. Politics is just one part of it. From two seats in the coming two phases, Akhilesh and wife Dimple are contesting. Both these constituencies – Kannauj and Mainpuri, respectively – had been won in the past by SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav.
‘We joined SP for being a party of the ideology of Ram Manohar Lohia, not Periyar’: Ex-SP chief whip
During the Rajya Sabha elections for 10 seats in Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party suffered a setback as a section of its own MLAs cross-voted in favour of the BJP, helping the party pick an extra seat and leaving the SP with one less. The biggest surprise was the crossover by SP chief whip Manoj Kumar Pandey, the MLA from Unchahar Assembly constituency in Raebareli, who quit his post before apparently helping the BJP nominee, Sanjay Seth, win.
Oldest MP, a leading voice on Muslim affairs, SP’s Shafiqur Rahman Barq passes away
PARLIAMENT lost its oldest member on Tuesday morning, with the passing of Shafiqur Rahman Barq aged 93 at a hospital in Moradabad. The five-time MP from Sambhal in western Uttar Pradesh was set to recontest the upcoming Lok Sabha polls on a Samajwadi Party (SP) ticket.
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