Cauvery water, state elections, and outdated enmity: With simply 7 months to go for 2024 elections, I.N.D.I. alliance is way away from any unity

I.N.D.I. alliance was fashioned to struggle the Lok Sabha elections 2024 towards the Bharatiya Janata Party-led (BJP) NDA, to mix the energy of the opposition and are available to energy. However, issues aren’t heading in the right direction because the alliance remains to be too distant from resolving inside conflicts and rivalries.

The predominant subject among the many I.N.D.I. alliance is who’s main them and who’s going to be the Prime Minister’s face. Congress, which is the biggest opposition social gathering within the Lok Sabha, needs Rahul Gandhi to be the Prime Minister face for the overall elections. However, no different alliance companions have proven any inclination towards Rahul Gandhi’s management that has led Congress by way of 2 subsequent election losses.

On the opposite hand, Nitish Kumar, who thought he would possibly turn into the face of the opposition alliance and hosted the first-ever assembly in Bihar, has understood that nobody sees him because the nationwide chief among the many allies. The identical goes for different prime leaders within the alliance, who, regardless of a number of conferences, are but to give you both a seat-sharing system or determine on a frontrunner.

Every week, there’s a new subject among the many alliance events. Congress and Aam Aadmi Party are locking horns in Punjab and Delhi within the North. In the East, Congress goes nuclear in West Bengal towards the Trinamool Congress (TMC). In the South, DMK and Congress are preventing over Cauvery water in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Finally, within the West, Rajasthan elections are going to divide Congress and AAP additional as they each would need to contest extra seats within the state.

Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and different states scheduled to carry meeting elections later this 12 months will put the allied events of the I.N.D.I. alliance in a dilemma over whether or not they need to keep associates in state politics or the friendship will stay solely on the nationwide degree.

Cauvery water dispute between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka

On twenty third September, RAF was deployed in Karnataka’s Mandya because the tensions between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka escalated over Cauvery water. In the most recent growth, farmers from each states have staged protests towards Chief Ministers of reverse states. Tamil Nadu farmers carried out the final rites of Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah.

#WATCH | Tamil Nadu: Farmers in Trichy staged a protest, demanding the discharge of Cauvery water from Karnataka. pic.twitter.com/IDHL0H8ktq

— ANI (@ANI) September 26, 2023

On the opposite hand, farmers from Karnataka carried out the final rites of Tamil Nadu CM Stalin.

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Interestingly, in Tamil Nadu, DMK and Congress are in alliance. However, they’re unable to unravel the water dispute between the states. Such points will create issues, particularly after they plan to contest Lok Sabha elections below one banner. Another subject is DMK’s leaders’ statements towards Sanatana Dharma, which created a large outrage and noticed alliance companions dashing to both defend or deflect. While the events within the I.N.D.I. alliance have supported DMK, the problem is certainly going to chunk them throughout campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections.

Congress accuses Mamata Banerjee of losing public cash throughout her Spain journey

Congress has accused TMC of violence towards its native leaders in West Bengal on a number of events. The bitter relationship between TMC and Congress didn’t water down after the formation of the I.N.D.I. alliance. Notably, Mamata Banerjee holds a powerful place as a attainable PM face among the many opposition events due to her constant win as Chief Minister in West Bengal. On the opposite hand, her social gathering’s popularity linked to post-poll violence is just not going to go straightforward throughout Lok Sabha election campaigns.

In an announcement on twenty seventh September, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha and Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Choudhary accused Mamata Banerjee of having fun with her journey to Spain on public cash. He accused the CM of staying in a resort room price Rs 3 lakh per day throughout her journey. He stated, “The Chief Minister (Mamata Banerjee) stayed at a hotel in Spain that costs Rs 3 lakh a day. On the pretext of inviting investments, she went on a tour and has returned after having fun.”

VIDEO | “The Chief Minister (Mamata Banerjee) stayed at a hotel in Spain that costs Rs 3 lakh a day. On the pretext of inviting investments, she went on a tour and has returned after having fun,” says Congress chief @adhirrcinc on West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee’s latest journey to… pic.twitter.com/QLVvabnASB

— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) September 27, 2023
AAP and Congress lock horns in Punjab

In the primary week of September, Anmol Gagan Mann, a frontrunner of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and a minister in Punjab, said that there could be no alliance with the Congress social gathering within the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in Punjab. AAP will contest all 13 Lok Sabha seats within the state below its personal image. Interestingly, a number of Congress leaders within the state additionally oppose the thought of partnering with the AAP.

Earlier, the state management of the Congress social gathering had made it clear that they’re towards any alliance with the AAP in Punjab for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. They have requested the state Congress President Amarinder Singh Raja Warring and the opposition chief Partap Singh Bajwa to convey to the social gathering excessive command that they’re towards the alliance.

The battle of curiosity may even be a serious subject between AAP and Congress in different states. Delhi has turn into AAP’s fort. There isn’t any means that AAP would determine to not contest any of the seats the place the social gathering holds energy. Several native AAP leaders and supporters will see it as “fraud” with the voters. On the opposite hand, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal is already roaming in Chhattisgarh, a state presently dominated by Congress, asking to deliver AAP to energy.

While campaigning, Kejriwal is throwing across the normal guarantees like free electrical energy. It is obvious that AAP and Congress aren’t going to contest Chhattisgarh below any alliance. Similarly, in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, AAP is seeking to contest towards the ruling events Congress, and BJP, respectively, with none hope of alliance with the Congress social gathering.

AAP leaders habitually accuse Congress leaders of corruption each time they get an opportunity. it’s truthful to count on that AAP will goal Congress within the states the place it’s presently in energy, like Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, regardless of their social gathering alliance with Congress on a nationwide degree. It might be some extent of battle between these events after they begin campaigning for Lok Sabha as there might be questions after they can not work collectively on the state degree, how are they going to run the federal government on the nationwide degree.

Rahul Gandhi, Mamata Banerjee, Nitish Kumar and Arvind Kejriwal, together with different leaders of the 26 events within the I.N.D.I. alliance, are the potential faces for the PM in Lok Sabha elections. While NDA has already declared they may contest elections to deliver again PM Narendra Modi to energy, the opposition alliance is predicted to proceed its battle to determine who would be the PM in the event that they win. Earlier, Rahul Gandhi was the star campaigner for NDA within the Lok Sabha election. However, if the alliance continues as they hope for, each different chief of the opposition alliance will increase the possibility of NDA of coming again to energy in a single or the opposite means.