Assembly Election 2021 Live: PM Modi to handle rallies in Bengal, Assam; BJP to launch Bengal manifesto
On marketing campaign, Stalin reminds NDA: Do not overlook that is land of Periyar, Anna, Kamaraj, Kalaignar
It’s 10.30 am, and M Ok Stalin, DMK supremo and the party-led alliance’s Chief Ministerial candidate, has already arrived for his marketing campaign rally for the primary Assembly ballot with out the 2 Dravidian stalwarts – M Karunanidhi and J Jayalalithaa.
However, as was seen through the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the 2 leaders nonetheless determine prominently within the marketing campaign, which, on the similar time, has changed into a Stalin versus Edappadi Ok Palaniswami contest.
In BJP Bengal record, 36 joined the occasion over final six months
OF THE 282 candidates introduced by the BJP to date for Assembly polls in West Bengal, 46 are those that joined the saffron occasion lower than two years in the past after the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. A bulk of them — 34 candidates — are from the Trinamool Congress, six from the CPM, 4 from Congress and one every from Forward Bloc and Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM).
The collection of candidates has led to large-scale protests throughout the state in nearly each district, and the anger that has manifested itself within the streets is not only for having given tickets to those that joined the BJP just lately. Infighting inside the BJP has additionally sparked protests after the discharge of the record.
Kerala polls: UDF manifesto guarantees Rs 6,000 a month for the poor, Rs 2,000 for homemakers
In thrust on social safety and welfare schemes, the Opposition Congress-led UDF Saturday unveiled its manifesto for the April 6 meeting elections, promising a month-to-month revenue of Rs 6,000 for the destitute households, a rise of month-to-month welfare pensions to Rs 3,000, laws for shielding the curiosity of the trustworthy at Sabarimala temple and 5 kg of free rice to all non-priority ration card holders.
Congress MP and chairman of UDF manifesto committee Benny Behnan, who launched the manifesto, stated the ballot doc is aimed toward constructing a affluent Kerala.
