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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s third Lok Sabha campaign saw some new themes being deployed, even as much of the hectic campaign style of the BJP under him remained the same throughout the gruelling 40-day-long cycle. As always, he led from the front.
Days after ex-Union minister Jayant Sinha’s son Aashir Sinha participated in a rally of the Opposition INDIA bloc in Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh, which sparked a buzz about his joining the Congress, the Sinha family has made news again.
On April 24 in Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said: “They ask me why 400 paar? I reply – because of your stratagems in the states. Daliton ke, Advisaiyon ke, OBCs ke aarakshan chori karne ka jo khel khel rahe ho. Use lootne ka khel khel rahe ho. Aapke ye khel band karne ke liye, hamesha ke liye band karne ke liye, aapke mansoobon ko hamesha hamesha taala lagaane ke liye Modi ko 400 paar chahiye (You are playing games to steal the reservation of Dalits, tribals and OBCs. You are trying to loot them. To stop this game of yours for ever, and to put a lock on your intentions, Modi wants 400 paar).
A close confidant of the Nehru-Gandhi family and a Rajiv Gandhi aide, Sam Pitroda, who now heads the Indian Overseas Congress, has once again put the party in a fix just before the Lok Sabha polls, with his statement on Wednesday describing an inheritance tax along the lines of the United States law as an “interesting” provision.
Shambhavi, the 25-year-old Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) candidate from the Samastipur Lok Sabha constituency, comes from a political family. She studied sociology at Lady Shri Ram (LSR) College, New Delhi, and Delhi School of Economics (DSE), and appeared for the UPSC exam once. Likely to be pitted against her in Samastipur is Sunny Hazari of the Congress, whose father Maheshwar Hazari is a minister in the Nitish Kumar government, just like her father Ashok Choudhary. Both Hazari and Choudhary are Janata Dal (United) leaders. The daughter-in-law of former IPS officer Kishore Kunal, Shambhavi tells The Indian Express that she believes politics is a field where she can represent other Dalit women like her who do not have the privilege to join politics. Excerpts from the interview:
Union minister and BJP leader Giriraj Singh is again contesting from his Begusarai Lok Sabha constituency, which will go to polls in the fourth phase on May 13. Giriraj, who had trounced the then CPI’s nominee Kanhaiya Kumar in the 2019 polls, is now taking on the CPI’s INDIA bloc candidate Awadesh Kumar Rai. In an interview with The Indian Express, he speaks on a range of issues including the induction of turncoats into the BJP and the fish row between PM Narendra Modi and the Opposition leaders. Excerpts:
In Bihar, which voted Friday in four Lok Sabha constituencies and where elections for the state’s 40 seats will be held in all seven phases, there appears to be no overwhelming wave in favour of one party, no single emotive issue that has captured the imagination of voters.
As the BJP banks on its Narendra Modi card and the Opposition INDIA bloc frames its campaign around “saving democracy and the Constitution”, voters in South Bihar where polling will be held on April 19 largely deploy caste to spell out their choices.