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The Supreme Court decision striking down the contentious electoral bond scheme of the government as unconstitutional has given the beleaguered opposition INDIA bloc – riven by internal dissension – an unexpected and much-needed political talking point, and an opportunity to aggressively add corruption to its armoury in the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections.
When Sonia Gandhi will walk into the Rajya Sabha as a member for the first time, she will encounter many familiar faces, among them at least nine MPs who were her Congress colleagues – some of them even considered part of Rahul Gandhi’s team – but switched to other parties over the last five years.
Barely a month ahead of the expected announcement of the Lok Sabha election schedule, Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) chairperson Sonia Gandhi has opted for a Rajya Sabha berth instead of contesting again from Raebareli that she has represented since 2004. Her decision to take the Upper House route triggered talk in party circles about her daughter and All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra may make her electoral debut from Raebareli in the parliamentary polls.
As the Lok Sabha elections draw near, the challenges before the Congress and the INDIA bloc are mounting. The latest setback came Monday, with senior Maharashtra leader Ashok Chavan leaving the party – coming on the heels of the JD(U) and RLD walking out of the INDIA coalition, the Trinamool Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) announcing that they would go it alone in West Bengal and Punjab; and seat-sharing talks in Delhi coming under severe strain.
The passage of three controversial agriculture laws in Parliament in 2020 sparked a year-long protest by farmers’ groups, which camped on Delhi’s borders for months till the government finally relented and repealed the farm laws in late 2021.
The Uttar Pradesh leg of senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra will be curtailed by a few days, with party insiders saying the march is likely to culminate at least a week earlier than planned.
Union minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Giriraj Singh heaped praises on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and also took a dig at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in a press statement on Sunday in Begusarai, Bihar.
Setting the tone for the upcoming general elections and picking up from where he left off in the Lok Sabha, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday continued his attacks on the Congress – challenging the Opposition party on all issues that it has made the centre of its Lok Sabha campaign.