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North Karnataka’s districts encompassing 14 Lok Sabha seats – where the BJP made a clean sweep in the 2019 polls riding the Narendra Modi wave – are going to polls Tuesday in the second and final phase of voting in the state (third phase in India), with local factors appearing to be more at play than national ones.
Months after losing the Assembly polls, the Congress entered the Lok Sabha poll ring in Chhattisgarh to put that loss behind it and improve on its 2019 tally of two seats. Four constituencies in Chhattisgarh voted in the first two phases and the remaining seven will go to the polls on Tuesday. These are Raipur, the state capital, Bilaspur, Korba, Durg, the SC-reserved Janjgir-Champa, and the two ST-reserved seats of Raigarh and Sarguja.
Former Congress leader Acharya Pramod Krishnam claimed on Monday that Congress' Rahul Gandhi had once said if the Congress government is formed at the Centre, "we will form a superpower commission and will overturn the Ram Mandir verdict". Krishnam was expelled by the Congress for "indiscipline" in February 2024.
Less than 24 hours after quitting the Congress party over the alleged 'injustice' meted out to her, Radhika Khera, a former spokesperson of the party, on Monday targeted party leader Rahul Gandhi, saying that hisNyay Yatra was “for namesake".
AT A TIME when the ruling Congress has made the “delay” in release of drought relief funds by the Centre to Karnataka a poll issue, the agrarian crisis is set to be the determining factor in Raichur, one of the 14 Lok Sabha seats in north Karnataka going to polls on May 7. Another is the fear that in its next term, a BJP government at the Centre would “change the Constitution”.
With Andhra Pradesh heading for simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in one phase on May 13, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address two rallies in the state on Monday, along with the NDA alliance partners – TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu and Jana Sena Party (JSP) chief Pawan Kalyan.
Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has dismissed the allegation that BJP poaching the opposition leaders and misusing power by forcing out competition. In an interview with The Indian Express, Singh asked, "Why did you (Congress) give tickets to such candidates? We never approached them. If someone comes to us and says ‘I want to support you’, should we say ‘No’?"
The suspense is over — it is Rahul Gandhi, not Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who is contesting from Rae Bareli, the seat their mother Sonia Gandhi represented five times since 2004 until she entered Rajya Sabha a month ago. And it is party karyakarta Kishori Lal Sharma who will face BJP’s Smriti Irani in Amethi.