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The Election Commission (EC)’s announcement of the schedule for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls – to be held in seven phases from April 19 to June 1 with results on June 4 – has set the stage for a grand battle between the ruling BJP and the Opposition INDIA alliance.
THE OPPOSITION is gearing up to field Samajwadi Party MP from Faizabad and senior leader Awadhesh Prasad as its united nominee for the Deputy Speaker’s post, in a calculated one towards further consolidation of the Dalit votes in Uttar Pradesh and to keep the momentum going for the Congress-Samajwadi Party alliance in the crucial state.
Maharashtra civil supplies minister and senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Chhagan Bhujbal is known in state political circles as a firebrand who often speaks his mind. Bhujbal seems to be again keeping his party and the Mahayuti coalition guessing, this time over the Maratha quota issue as well as the Rajya Sabha nomination for party chief Ajit Pawar’s wife Suntera.
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.
Several recent moves of Maharashtra minister Chhagan Bhujbal, a senior leader of the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), have led to talks that his discontent within the ruling Mahayuti alliance is growing.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday rebuked party leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhary over his remarks against West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjeee, and said she is with INDIA alliance.
With more than half of Uttar Pradesh’s 80 Lok Sabha seats up for grabs in the last three phases, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will continue his campaign tour across the Hindi heartland state that is critical to the BJP’s prospects. On Friday, he will address three rallies in Barabanki, Fatehpur, and Hamirpur constituencies.
Just short of one month to complete two years in office as Maharashtra Chief Minister, Eknath Shinde is on a campaign overdrive. As 11 constituencies in Maharashtra vote in the fourth phase on Monday, Shinde discusses the ruling Mahayuti alliance’s prospects in the state, Uddhav Thackeray, the Maratha quota issue, and the Opposition’s allegation that the BJP wants to change the Constitution if it returns to power in the state.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s advice to NCP(SP) chief Sharad Pawar and Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray to join the BJP-led NDA — by merging their parties, respectively, with the Ajit Pawar-led NCP and Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena — has charged up Maharashtra politics, which is already heated amidst the ongoing Lok Sabha polls.