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After much suspense, the Congress finally announced its candidates for the traditional Nehru-Gandhi seats of Amethi and Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh on Friday, the list date for filing nominations. While there was buzz that siblings Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi would contest from the two seats, eventually while Rahul moved to Rae Bareli, Priyanka opted out.
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.
Chosen by the Gandhi family to carry forward the baton in Amethi, and contesting his first election, Kishorilal Sharma is leading Union minister Smriti Irani by more than 71,000 votes in Amethi.
Three days from now, we will finally know how close the BJP or NDA finishes to its touted seat target of “400 paar”. In India’s electoral history, a party has crossed that number only once, when the Congress won 414 seats (of the 541 that voted) in the Lok Sabha elections that followed Indira Gandhi’s assassination.
THE PROPOSAL of INDIA bloc’s Chandigarh candidate, Manish Tewari, that the joint Punjab and Haryana capital be made a “city-state” was one of the issues that drew fire from politicians in Punjab across party lines during the elections.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tribute to the former Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, on his 33rd death anniversary on Tuesday.
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.
Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Congress candidate from Lok Sabha constituency, Kishori Lal Sharma said he will Smriti Irani in the upcoming general elections.