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Ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Indian National Congress' General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi campaigned in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur and said that if the country conducts fair elections without any tampering of EVMs, then the Bhartiya Janata Party will not secure more than 180 seats.
As the first Parliament session after the recent general elections got underway, it reflected a sea change in power dynamics, with the BJP short of a majority and dependent on its NDA allies, and the Opposition INDIA alliance confident and purposeful, fuelled by a rise in numbers. A rare contest for the Speaker’s post also took place, which signalled stormy days in Parliament ahead, while Rahul Gandhi took on his first statutory role as the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha. The Urdu dailies captured these developments, and sought to decipher them.
Finally, after two decades of ‘will she, won’t she’, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is going to make her electoral debut now. She will contest the Lok Sabha bypoll from Kerala’s Wayanad, the constituency that her brother Rahul Gandhi has vacated so as to retain his Rae Bareli seat in Uttar Pradesh instead.
Upbeat after the election results, a resurgent Opposition is coordinating its moves to mount pressure on the BJP-led NDA government to keep in abeyance the three laws that have been enacted to replace the Indian Penal Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure, and the Evidence Act. The parties are also gearing up to corner the government on the NEET and UGC-NET controversies next week as the 18th Lok Sabha meets for the first time.
While the Congress is enthused over Kerala’s Wayanad Lok Sabha seat becoming Priyanka Gandhi’s launching pad in electoral politics, the decline in Rahul Gandhi’s winning margin in the recent elections suggests various shortcomings in the party organisation and its campaigning in the constituency.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is likely to retain the Raebareli seat after winning the recent Lok Sabha elections from two constituencies. Party leaders reportedly remain divided on the matter, with a significant number of Congress members urging Gandhi to retain the family bastion of Raebareli. A final announcement is expected before the June 17 deadline.
In a major setback for the BJP, Union minister Smriti Irani looked set for a huge loss to the Congress’s K L Sharma, who had pulled ahead by 1.66 lakh votes in Amethi as per leads till 6 pm. In neighbouring Rae Bareli, a Congress party bastion for decades, senior leader Rahul Gandhi is leading by 3.90 lakh votes — a number that surpasses his mother Sonia Gandhi’s previous margins from the seat.
With more than one score to settle against its former stalwart Amarinder Singh, the Congress is going all out to wrest the Patiala Lok Sabha seat, which has been a long-standing citadel of the ex-chief minister and head of the erstwhile Patiala royal family.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s claim at public rallies in Nahan and Mandi last week that hundreds of crores of rupees in flood relief funds allocated to Himachal Pradesh were disbursed indiscriminately by the Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu-led state government, has triggered a flurry of counter accusations by Congress leaders.