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  • MGNREGA Wage Hike And Congress' Guarantees: Will It Impact 2024 Lok Sabha Polls? ,

    NEW DELHI: As India braces itself for the crucial 2024 Lok Sabha elections, a significant development in the realm of rural employment has emerged, potentially altering the electoral calculus. The Ministry of Rural Development has been authorized by the Election Commission of India to announce revised wages under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) for the upcoming financial year, which has sparked discussions and debates across the political spectrum.

    The Significance Of MGNREGA

    MGNREGA, a flagship rural employment scheme of the erstwhile UPA regime guaranteeing 100 days of work each year for every rural household, was enacted in 2005. It holds immense significance in India's socio-economic landscape. Aimed at providing livelihood security to rural households by guaranteeing 100 days of wage employment in a financial year, MGNREGA plays a pivotal role in alleviating poverty, boosting rural incomes, and enhancing agricultural productivity. The MGNREGA was initiated with the objective of “enhancing livelihood security in rural areas by providing at least 100 days of guaranteed wage employment in a financial year, to every household whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work”. Another aim of MGNREGA is to create durable assets (such as roads, canals, ponds and wells). Employment is to be provided within 5 km of an applicant's residence, and minimum wages are to be paid. If work is not provided within 15 days of applying, applicants are entitled to an unemployment allowance. Thus, employment under MGNREGA is a legal entitlement.

    Implications Of The Wage Hike

    The authorization to announce revised wages under MGNREGA comes at a critical juncture – the Model Code of Conduct is in force across the country and the Lok Sabha elections are just a few days away. The decision to raise minimum wages to Rs 400 per day, if implemented, holds profound implications for millions of rural households dependent on MGNREGA for sustenance.

    Political Ramifications

    From a political standpoint, the timing of the wage hike announcement is noteworthy. As political parties intensify their election campaigns, issues related to rural development, farmer welfare, and employment generation take center stage. The MGNREGA wage hike could potentially sway voter sentiment in rural constituencies, where agrarian distress and unemployment remain pressing concerns.

    Congress' Guarantees

    In a bid to bolster its electoral prospects and resonate with diverse segments of society, the Congress party has further unveiled a comprehensive set of guarantees targeting farmers, women, workers, unemployed youths, and backward communities.

    What Are Major Congress' Guarantees?

    Farmers: The Congress has promised to overhaul existing agricultural policies, including amending the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime to exempt agricultural materials, redesigning the PM Fasal Bima Yojana to ensure timely compensation for crop loss, establishing a Standing Farm Loan Waiver Commission, and enacting legislation to grant Minimum Support Price (MSP) legal status.

    Workers: The party has pledged to review labor codes, raise MGNREGA wages, pass a right-to-health law, and introduce an urban employment guarantee scheme.

    Women: Congress aims to empower women through various initiatives, including social security measures and participatory justice programs.

    Unemployed Youths: The party has proposed measures to address youth unemployment through skill development programs and job creation initiatives.

    Backward Communities: Congress has committed to conducting a comprehensive social, economic, and caste census, removing the 50% cap on reservations, and allocating budgetary resources proportionate to the population share of Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST).

    The confluence of the MGNREGA wage hike and Congress' guarantees underscores the pivotal role of socio-economic welfare policies in shaping the electoral discourse. As political parties vie for voter support, issues of rural development, farmer welfare, and inclusive growth take precedence, setting the stage for a fiercely contested electoral battle in 2024.

  • Will history change in Bhind? Phool Singh Baraiya lost when he fought: told lalluram.com – Congress has given the ticket, I will vacate the seat

    Gwalior, Karan Mishra. Congress has made the picture of its candidates clear on 10 seats in Madhya Pradesh. Congress has declared its candidate from Bhind Lok Sabha seat. The party has made Congress MLA from Bhander Phool Singh Baraiya its candidate. In an exclusive conversation with Lalluram.com, after getting the ticket, Phool Singh Baraiya said that this time history is going to change on Bhind seat. Because Congress party has made me its candidate from Bhind Lok Sabha seat. I am the natural candidate of the party and the magic will be visible wherever I fight. This time the people will contest the elections on my behalf.

    At a time when Bharatiya Janata Party has destroyed democracy in the country, what kind of results on Bhind Lok Sabha seat are in the interest of the Congress Party. The party has made me a candidate, it is my responsibility to give away the seat to the party.

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    Phool Singh Baraiya further said that Congress India alliance will form its government in 2024. The public has understood Modi ji. If he persists then the educated youth of the country will not get jobs, so will they become dacoits? BJP has been continuously holding the Lok Sabha seat since 1989. But this is not a challenge for me. This time Congress will register victory here. The work of Phool Singh Baraiya can be seen among the people.

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    Congress did not listen to me in the assembly elections

    Baraiya said that candidates also play a big role in elections. Congress party has made me its candidate, now its charisma will be seen. I know Bhind Lok Sabha seat very well. Therefore, I will make the party win the seat. During the assembly elections, I had given the formula to the party but the party did not listen to me. Therefore, now I will not talk like that time because if the party does not listen to me, my formula will get spoiled. But my formula is perfect even today.

    Any day the party tries me, I will not let the Bharatiya Janata Party win 50 MLAs in Madhya Pradesh. I have complete calculations for this. I also have calculations for Lok Sabha but this time I am not claiming it. This time history is going to change on Bhind Lok Sabha seat.

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    lose when you fight

    It is noteworthy that Phool Singh Baraiya had earlier also contested elections from Bhind Lok Sabha seat. He has contested the elections on the tickets of Samata Samaj Party and Bahujan Sangharsh Dal. Phool Singh Baraiya contested the Bhind Lok Sabha seat for the first time in 2004 on the ticket of Samata Samaj Party. He got a total of 59679 votes with a vote share of 6.21% and had to face a crushing defeat.

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    For the second time in 2014 also, he had contested the election from Bhind Lok Sabha seat. That time he contested the elections on the ticket of Bahujan Sangharsh Dal and got only 20403 votes, securing 2.12% vote rate and had to face a bigger defeat than in 2004. But this time Phool Singh Baraiya is going to contest the Lok Sabha elections on Congress Party ticket. In front of him, the party has fielded current BJP MP Sandhya Rai. In such a situation, it remains to be seen who wins from Bhind seat in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

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  • BJP Drops Pragya Thakur, Fields Shivraj From Vidisha, Scindia From Guna In 1st List Of Candidates For MP.

    New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has revealed its first list of 24 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in Madhya Pradesh, featuring prominent names such as former Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia. The party has also made significant changes by replacing Bhopal MP Pragya Singh Thakur with Alok Sharma, a former mayor. The party's announcement, made on Saturday, included a total of 195 candidates.

    Chouhan is set to return to Lok Sabha polls after nearly two decades, and will contest his sixth Parliamentary election from Vidisha, a seat that has been held by BJP stalwarts like late Atal Bihari Vajpayee (in 1991), Sushma Swaraj (in 2009 and 2014 ) and newspaper publisher Ramnath Goenka (in 1971).

    There was a lot of speculation about Chhindwara, with no candidate declared yet. Amid rumors of Congress heavyweights Kamal Nath and his son defecting, the Naths earlier this week denied any such reports.

    The BJP has repeated 13 sitting MPs in its list while introducing new faces for 11 seats, including Morena, Gwalior, and Sagar.

    The BJP's dominance in Madhya Pradesh, having won 28 out of 29 Lok Sabha seats in 2019, sets the stage for an interesting electoral contest as the party prepares its list for the upcoming polls.

    Sitting MP Pragya Singh Thakur, an accused in Malegaon blast case, was dropped from Bhopal. Thakur, known for her controversial statements, defeated Congress veteran Digvijaya Singh in the 2019 elections by a margin of 3.65 lakh votes.

    Candidates for five seats – Indore, Chhindwara, Balaghat, Ujjain and Dhar – are yet to be announced. Shivraj Singh Chouhan led the BJP to victory in the last year's Madhya Pradesh assembly elections, but was replaced by Mohan Yadav as CM.

    Union ministers Faggan Singh Kulaste and Virendra Singh Khatik were fielded from their current constituencies. The seats where new candidates were announced are Morena, Gwalior, Sagar, Bhopal, Damoh, Sidhi, Jabalpur, Hoshangabad, Ratlam, Vidisha and Guna.

    The seats where sitting MPs were given another chance include Bhind (Sandhya Rai), Tikamgarh (Union Minister Virendra Kumar), Khajuraho (state BJP president VD Sharma), Satna (Ganesh Singh), Rewa (Janardan Mishra), Shahdol (Himadri Singh). , Mandla (union minister Faggan Singh Kulaste), Rajgarh (Rodmal Nagar), Dewas (Mahendra Singh Solanki), Mandsaur (Sudhir Gupta), Khargone (Gajendra Patel), Khandwa (Gyaneshwar Patil) and Betul (Durgadas Uikey).

    In November 2023 assembly elections, the BJP had fielded seven MPs including union ministers Narendra Singh Tomar, Faggan Singh Kulaste and Prahlad Patel.

    After winning elections, Tomar, MP from Morena, became Speaker of the assembly, while Patel, MP from Damoh, became the minister in the state cabinet.

    The MPs of Jabalpur (Rakesh Singh), Hoshangabad (Rao Uday Pratap Singh) and Sidhi (Riti Pathak) also won assembly elections, hence, new candidates were fielded from these seats. Rakesh Singh and Rao Uday Pratap Singh are now ministers in the state cabinet.

    MPs from Gwalior (Vivek Shejwalkar), Sagar (Rajbahadur Singh), Bhopal (Pragya Singh Thakur), Ratlam (Guman Singh Damor), Vidisha (Ramakant Bhargava) and Guna (KP Singh Yadav) did not figure in the list.

    Jyotiraditya Scindia, 53, was fielded from Guna Lok Sabha seat, where he, as a Congress candidate, had lost to the BJP's KP Singh Yadav in 2019. Scindia had represented this seat four times, and is currently a Rajya Sabha member from Madhya Pradesh. .

    Shivraj Singh Chouhan, 64, represented Vidisha five times before becoming chief minister in November 2005. He is currently MLA from Budhni assembly segment which falls under the Vidisha Lok Sabha seat.

  • AAP-Congress Alliance In Delhi Uncertain: ‘Let’s See,’ Says Kejriwal After Blaming Delays |

    New Delhi: The AAP and the Congress were “too late” in their talks over seat sharing in Delhi for Lok Sabha polls, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Wednesday, amid reports by sources in both sides that the prospects of an alliance have faced a setback. On Tuesday, Kejriwal had said that talks for seat sharing in the national capital were in “final stages” and a partnership between the two parties would be declared soon. There are seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi currently held by the BJP.

    News agency PTI citing sources in the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) reported that if the alliance did not materialize with the Congress, the party could announce its candidates in the next few days. When questioned by reporters on the likelihood of alliance with the Congress in Delhi, Kejriwal said, “It is too late, it should have occurred much earlier. Let us see what happens in the next one-two days.”

    Delhi Congress president Arvinder Singh Lovely said that the party is ready for elections on all the seven constituencies in Delhi. “The committee headed by Mukul Vasnik is constantly talking to the members of the INDIA bloc. It would not be proper for me to comment about that,” he told reporters.

    Sources said despite several rounds of talks between the leaders of two parties, a consensus over number of seats to be fought by them was yet to be reached. Congress sources claimed that the party wanted to fight four of the seven Lok Sabha seats and leave the rest for the AAP.

    “This is justified as in the 2019 polls, the Congress candidates were second on six of the seven seats in Delhi while AAP candidates were on third place except for South Delhi constituency,” said a senior Delhi Congress leader.

    Although AAP leaders remained silent on seat sharing, sources in the party said, “The Aam Aadmi Party wants to fight four seats – North East Delhi, West Delhi, South Delhi and North West Delhi.” The AAP earlier said it was holding talks with the INDIA bloc partners for a pact in Gujarat, Haryana, Delhi, and Goa. The party has already decided to go alone in Punjab.

    AAP national general secretary (organisation) Sandeep Pathak recently said that the party has demanded eight out of 26 Lok Sabha seats from the Congress in Gujarat. He said that the AAP won five seats by polling a total 13 per cent votes in the last Assembly polls in Gujarat and claimed eight Lok Sabha seats in the state for the upcoming polls, while offering remaining 18 to the Congress.

    He had also offered one Lok Sabha seat in Delhi to the Congress saying it did not merit even that based on its previous election track record. The Congress currently does not have any Lok Sabha MP or MLA from Delhi. The AAP has so far unilaterally declared its candidates in two seats each in Gujarat and Assam and one in Goa.

    Pathak had said that if a decision was not soon taken on seat-sharing in Delhi, his party would declare its candidates. The BJP won all the seven seats in Delhi consecutively in 2014 and 2019 elections. Interestingly, the BJP candidates in 2019 polled more votes than the combined tally of Congress and AAP candidates.

  • Rajya Sabha Polls: Sonia, Nadda Among 41 Elected Unopposed, Voting For 15 Seats On Feb 27 |

    New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha elections saw 41 candidates getting elected without any opposition on Tuesday, including former Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, BJP president JP Nadda, Union ministers Ashwini Vaishnaw and L Murugan, and BJP’s new entrant Ashok Chavan. The remaining 15 seats in Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh will go to polls on February 27. The BJP emerged as the biggest winner, securing 20 seats, followed by the Congress (6), Trinamool Congress (4), YSR Congress (3 ), RJD (2), BJD (2) and NCP, Shiv Sena, BRS and JD(U) one each. The returning officers declared these 41 candidates as winners on the last date of withdrawal of nominations, as there were no other contenders for these seats.

    The biennial elections were scheduled for February 27 in 56 seats. Out of these, 50 members will retire on April 2 and six on April 3. The voting for 10 seats in Uttar Pradesh, four in Karnataka and one in Himachal Pradesh will take place from 9 am to 4 pm and the counting will start from 5. pm on the same day.

    Nadda and his party colleagues Jasvantsinh Parmar, Mayank Nayak and diamond tycoon Govindbhai Dholakia won from Gujarat. The Congress, which has only 15 MLAs, and other opposition parties did not field any candidates against the BJP, which has 156 legislators in the 182-member Gujarat assembly.

    Sonia Gandhi was among the three candidates who won from Rajasthan, along with BJP’s Chunnilal Garasiya and Madan Rathore.

    Maharashtra also saw six candidates getting elected unopposed – BJP’s Chavan, who switched from the Congress last Tuesday, Medha Kulkarni and Ajit Gopchhade; Shiv Sena’s Milind Deora, who quit the Congress last month, Praful Patel (NCP) and Chandrakant Handore (Cong).

    In Bihar, JD(U)’s Sanjay Kumar Jha, BJP’s Dharmshila Gupta and Bhim Singh, Manoj Kumar Jha and Sanjay Yadav (both RJD) and Akhilesh Prasad Singh (Congress) were the winners.

    Uttar Pradesh will have a contest for 10 seats among 11 candidates. The BJP has nominated eight candidates – former Union minister RPN Singh, former MP Chaudhary Tejveer Singh, state party general secretary Amarpal Maurya, former state minister Sangeeta Balwant, party spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi, former MLA Sadhna Singh, former Agra mayor Naveen Jain and local industrialist and ex-SP leader Sanjay Seth who joined the BJP in 2019.

    The Samajwadi Party (SP) has nominated Jaya Bachchan and also named former MP Ramjilal Suman and retired IAS officer Alok Ranjan as its candidates.

    In Karnataka, four seats will see a fight among five candidates. The Congress has put up Ajay Maken, Syed Naseer Hussain and GC Chandrasekhar, while Narayansa Bandage is the BJP candidate. JD(S) leader and ex-Rajya Sabha member D Kupendra Reddy is also in the fray.

    In Himachal Pradesh, the BJP has forced a contest by fielding Harsh Mahajan against Congress’s Abhishek Manu Singhvi for the lone seat despite lacking enough MLAs to win.

    In the evening, TMC’s Sushmita Dev, Sagarika Ghose, Mamata Thakur and Md Nadimul Haque and Samik Bhattacharya (BJP) were the winners from West Bengal.

    Union minister Murugan, Valmiki Dham Ashram head Umesh Nath Maharaj, Kisan Morcha’s national vice president Banshilal Gurjar, and Madhya Pradesh BJP’s women wing president Maya Naroliya secured four seats for the BJP in Madhya Pradesh while Ashok Singh of the Congress also won without any opposition.

    From Odisha, Union minister Vaishnaw (BJP) and BJD’s Debashish Samantray and Subhashish Khuntia were the winners.

    The YSR Congress bagged all the three seats in Andhra Pradesh – G Babu Rao, YV Subba Reddy and M Raghunath Reddy while in neighboring Telangana, the ruling Congress won two seats – Renuka Chowdhury and Anil Kumar Yadav – and BRS one seat – V Ravichandra.

    BJP nominees in Uttarakhand (Mahendra Bhatt), Subhash Barala (Haryana), Devendra Pratap Singh (Chhattisgarh) won without any contest.

  • ‘This Time They Will Be Wiped Out Of Parliament’: Mallikarjun Kharge On BJP’s ‘400 Seats’ Claim |

    NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday claimed that the Narendra Modi-powered BJP won’t be able to cross 400 seats in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections and it will be wiped out of Parliament. Speaking to reporters in Amethi, Kharge said, “I said – they (BJP) keep saying that they will cross 400 (LS seats), but this time they will be out of Parliament.” The Congress president hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying his guarantee is not for the farmers, labourers, Dalits, tribal and backward people of the country.

    Denying any rift with the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party, Kharge said, ‘”Everything will be alright. He has agreed and our people have agreed too. There is no problem.” Kharge on Saturday criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government and described it as a ‘curse’ for the country’s farmers.


    #WATCH | In UP’s Amethi, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge says, “I said – they (BJP) are saying that they will cross 400 (LS seats), but this time they will be out of Parliament.” https://t.co/mr3cU5wfmC — ANI (@ANI) February 19, 2024


    Interestingly, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav today made his participation in the Congress’ Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra conditional to a decision on seat sharing, saying that he will be joining it the moment the seats for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections are distributed between the two parties. . “Right now talks are going on, lists have come from their side and from ours as well, the moment the seats are distributed and decided, the Samajwadi Party will join Congress’s Nyaya Yatra,” Yadav said speaking to reporters on Monday.

    The Congress president accused the Modi government of treating farmers like enemies. Kharge asserted that only the Congress party can provide farmers with the legal right to a Minimum Support Price (MSP).

    “The Modi government is a curse for the country’s food-providing farmers. Due to the continuous false ‘Modi’s Guarantee’, first 750 farmers lost their lives, and now, yesterday, one farmer lost his life and 3 have lost their eyesight due to rubber bullets. The Modi government has treated farmers like enemies, Only Congress will give them the legal right of MSP!” he said in a post on ‘X’.

    Taking a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his poll promises, Kharge said the former is the chief of all liars as he failed to even fulfill what he had promised during his 2014 poll campaign.

    “I want to ask him what happened to the promises he made during 2014–he never fulfilled those. Modiji jhuton ka sardar hai (PM Modi is the chief of liars),” Kharge said addressing party workers at an event hosted by Maharashtra Congress. in Pune.

    The Congress national president said people keep praising PM Modi despite the latter not doing much work in the last 10 years. Kharge cautioned that if such a scenario continues, the Constitution will “vanish”.

    “PM Modi keeps lying…you all know what he did in the last ten years. Still, people praise him…if this continues, then there will soon come a day when the Constitution will vanish. We are waging a fight to protect the Constitution and have to keep fighting,” he said.

    Describing Prime Minister Modi as “individualistic,” Kharge alleged that the former does not even take his party’s name while announcing his “guarantees.” “PM Modi keeps on saying that this is Modi ki Guarantee…he never uses his party name. He is very individualistic and full of himself,” the Congress president said.

    Claiming further that the BJP had no role in the country’s freedom struggle, Kharge added, “We are fighting for the country and its founding ideals all over again. The BJP had no role or contribution to our freedom struggle. We fought for the country. ”

    Taking a dig at the Congress, PM Modi earlier this month said that even Opposition leader Mallikarjun Kharge has predicted the return of the NDA government with over 400 seats.

    PM Modi made this remark during his response to the Motion of Thanks on the President’s address in Lok Sabha.

    During a session in the Rajya Sabha on February 2, Kharge inadvertently coined what would become a rallying cry for the BJP, stating “Abki Baar, 400 Paar,” which translates to “This time, over 400 seats.”

    “Our third tenure is not far away, a maximum of 100-125 days are left. The entire nation is saying ‘abki baar, 400 paar’. Even Kharge ji said that,” PM Modi said while replying to the Motion of Thanks on the President’s address in Lok Sabha.

    He expressed confidence that the BJP would not only secure a third term but also achieve an impressive victory by winning over 370 seats individually and crossing the 400 mark with the support of the NDA bloc. Modi’s remarks were met with laughter, including his own, as he acknowledged Kharge’s statement, suggesting that even the opposition leader seemed to predict the ruling party’s electoral success.

    Modi further criticized the Congress party, implying that they had become comfortable in their role as the opposition and were preparing to occupy the spectators’ gallery in Parliament. He also took a veiled swipe at Rahul Gandhi and the Congress party’s alleged nepotism, criticizing the repeated promotion of the same leadership without success.

    PM Modi indirectly referenced Rahul Gandhi by stating that the Congress is on the brink of shutting down its shop, emphasizing that they keep trying to relaunch the same product repeatedly.

  • Mumbai slums | Not a lot to dwell on

    With a watch on the polls, the Maharashtra authorities pronounces a number of steps for these lined beneath Mumbai’s slum redevelopment tasks. But stalled tasks and an alleged pro-builder bias are undoing any good intent

    REDOING SHANTYTOWN: A swathe of Mumbai’s Dharavi slum, with tenement highrises for residents in its midst. (Photo: Milind Shelte)

    Mumbai,ISSUE DATE: Oct 9, 2023 | UPDATED: Sep 29, 2023 19:15 IST

    With the Lok Sabha and state meeting polls in 2024 drawing close to, the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) authorities in Maharashtra goes all-out to woo the highly effective slum-dweller vote financial institution in Mumbai. The state authorities has determined to allot residences in slum redevelop­ment schemes at Rs 2.5 lakh to residents of shanties which have come up between 2000 and 2011. It is estimated that this can cowl round 1.6-1.8 million folks as their slums are redeveloped within the coming years. Slum-dwellers whose homes had been constructed earlier than 2000 are legally protected and eligible at no cost housing. Many are housed in 300 sq. ft flats beneath Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) tasks.

  • Road to 2024: INDIA bloc to carry first joint public rally in Bhopal subsequent month

    Express News Service

    NEW DELHI:  Preparing the bottom for the approaching state and Lok Sabha elections, the Opposition INDIA bloc on Wednesday determined to start seat-sharing talks on the earliest and maintain its first joint public rally in Bhopal in October first week.

    The selections have been taken on the first assembly of the bloc’s coordination and election technique committee at NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s Delhi residence. It was attended by 12 member events. TMC chief Abhishek Banerjee couldn’t make it as he was summoned by the Enforcement Directorate. 

    A joint assertion after the assembly mentioned the committee determined to carry joint public conferences in numerous components of the nation. The events additionally agreed to take up the difficulty of caste census. Besides, the panel authorised the sub-committee on media to attract up a listing of TV information anchors the INDIA events will boycott. 

    While a lot of the leaders careworn an early determination on seat sharing, they mentioned state-level committees could be fashioned for negotiations. At the bloc’s Mumbai assembly, TMC, JD(U), AAP, and RJD pressed for an early determination on seat sharing. When requested in regards to the tussle between the AAP and the Congress in states like Delhi, Haryana and Punjab, AAP chief Raghav Chadha mentioned these points can be mentioned. 

    National Conference chief Omar Abdullah steered that seats already held by allies shouldn’t be open for dialogue. “We should discuss those seats that are held by either the BJP, NDA or parties not part of any alliance. It has been decided that parties will nominate their various representatives at whatever levels appropriate for them to start discussion,” he mentioned. 

    NEW DELHI:  Preparing the bottom for the approaching state and Lok Sabha elections, the Opposition INDIA bloc on Wednesday determined to start seat-sharing talks on the earliest and maintain its first joint public rally in Bhopal in October first week.

    The selections have been taken on the first assembly of the bloc’s coordination and election technique committee at NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s Delhi residence. It was attended by 12 member events. TMC chief Abhishek Banerjee couldn’t make it as he was summoned by the Enforcement Directorate. 

    A joint assertion after the assembly mentioned the committee determined to carry joint public conferences in numerous components of the nation. The events additionally agreed to take up the difficulty of caste census. Besides, the panel authorised the sub-committee on media to attract up a listing of TV information anchors the INDIA events will boycott. googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    While a lot of the leaders careworn an early determination on seat sharing, they mentioned state-level committees could be fashioned for negotiations. At the bloc’s Mumbai assembly, TMC, JD(U), AAP, and RJD pressed for an early determination on seat sharing. When requested in regards to the tussle between the AAP and the Congress in states like Delhi, Haryana and Punjab, AAP chief Raghav Chadha mentioned these points can be mentioned. 

    National Conference chief Omar Abdullah steered that seats already held by allies shouldn’t be open for dialogue. “We should discuss those seats that are held by either the BJP, NDA or parties not part of any alliance. It has been decided that parties will nominate their various representatives at whatever levels appropriate for them to start discussion,” he mentioned. 

  • ‘Have not give up politics, will contest subsequent election’, says senior BJP chief Uma Bharti

    By PTI

    BHOPAL: Senior BJP chief and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Uma Bharti has stated that she has not give up politics and that she would contest the following election.

    Addressing a public assembly within the Sagar district of Bundelkhand area in Madhya Pradesh on Monday, she stated she solely took a five-year break as she had been working for a very long time.

    “I had refused to contest the election (last time) as I had been working for a long time. I thought of taking a break for five years. People thought that I left politics, but I am tired of saying that I have not quit politics,” she stated.

    Citing a number of improvement works, together with the Ken-Betwa river interlinking challenge and the Lalitpur-Singrauli rail line, Bharti stated that these tasks turned a actuality as she was in politics.

    “Whether I turn 75 or 85, I will remain active in politics and contest the next election. I like politics very much,” the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief stated.

    She stated that politics has been ruined by those that take into account it a supply of luxurious.

    Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh are due in November this 12 months, whereas the Lok Sabha elections are scheduled subsequent 12 months.

    Bharti had final contested the Lok Sabha election from Jhansi (Uttar Pradesh) in 2014 and after successful it, turned a Union minister within the Narendra Modi-led BJP authorities on the Centre.

    Earlier this month, Bharti, the previous Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, had expressed her displeasure for not being invited to the BJP’s ‘Jan Ashirwad Yatra’ launched by get together president J P Nadda on September 3.

    In the previous, Bharti additionally ran a marketing campaign demanding a stringent liquor coverage within the state and hurled stones at a few liquor retailers as a mark of protest.

    The former Union minister additionally staged protests at numerous liquor retailers in Bhopal, Orchha and Chhindwara through the course of this protest. She additionally stayed in a temple to protest demanding amendments to the liquor coverage.

    In the final week of August, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan inducted Bharti’s nephew Rahul Singh Lodhi, MLA from Khargapur (Tikamgarh district), into his cabinet as a minister of state throughout its enlargement.

    BHOPAL: Senior BJP chief and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Uma Bharti has stated that she has not give up politics and that she would contest the following election.

    Addressing a public assembly within the Sagar district of Bundelkhand area in Madhya Pradesh on Monday, she stated she solely took a five-year break as she had been working for a very long time.

    “I had refused to contest the election (last time) as I had been working for a long time. I thought of taking a break for five years. People thought that I left politics, but I am tired of saying that I have not quit politics,” she stated.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Citing a number of improvement works, together with the Ken-Betwa river interlinking challenge and the Lalitpur-Singrauli rail line, Bharti stated that these tasks turned a actuality as she was in politics.

    “Whether I turn 75 or 85, I will remain active in politics and contest the next election. I like politics very much,” the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief stated.

    She stated that politics has been ruined by those that take into account it a supply of luxurious.

    Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh are due in November this 12 months, whereas the Lok Sabha elections are scheduled subsequent 12 months.

    Bharti had final contested the Lok Sabha election from Jhansi (Uttar Pradesh) in 2014 and after successful it, turned a Union minister within the Narendra Modi-led BJP authorities on the Centre.

    Earlier this month, Bharti, the previous Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, had expressed her displeasure for not being invited to the BJP’s ‘Jan Ashirwad Yatra’ launched by get together president J P Nadda on September 3.

    In the previous, Bharti additionally ran a marketing campaign demanding a stringent liquor coverage within the state and hurled stones at a few liquor retailers as a mark of protest.

    The former Union minister additionally staged protests at numerous liquor retailers in Bhopal, Orchha and Chhindwara through the course of this protest. She additionally stayed in a temple to protest demanding amendments to the liquor coverage.

    In the final week of August, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan inducted Bharti’s nephew Rahul Singh Lodhi, MLA from Khargapur (Tikamgarh district), into his cabinet as a minister of state throughout its enlargement.

  • Urge democratic forces to withstand ‘One nation, one election’ plan, says Kerala CM Vijayan

    By Express News Service

    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Amid the Union authorities’s strikes to implement the ‘one nation, one election’ plan in order to carry Lok Sabha and state meeting elections concurrently, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has exhorted democratic forces to return ahead to withstand the transfer that might give absolute energy to the Centre.

    In an announcement, the Chief Minister stated the Sangh Parivar’s ‘one nation, one election’ slogan threatens the ‘thought of India’, the nation’s democratic setup and its Constitutional ideas. It additionally quantities to undermining the federal construction and giving complete authority to the Centre, he warned.

    Pinarayi stated the relevance of the Rajya Sabha, which is without doubt one of the key pillars of the Indian parliamentary system, is being questioned via the ‘one nation, one election’ transfer.’

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    The state meeting elections carried out at completely different phases resolve the composition of the Rajya Sabha. By conducting all state meeting elections concurrently the political variety within the Rajya Sabha can be eroded, he stated.

    The Chief Minister stated it was clear that the Sangh Parivar’s transfer to implement the ‘one nation, one election’ plan was as a result of concern of shedding the upcoming elections to 5 state assemblies.

    “The Sangh Parivar knows that a defeat in the upcoming state elections would have a bearing on its Lok Sabha prospects,” he stated.

    “The moves by the Sangh Parivar to put an end to the existence of India as a democratic country should be resisted by all means. Democratic forces in the country should come forward to resist such attempts to end the diversity in the country’s parliamentary democracy,” Pinarayi stated.

    THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Amid the Union authorities’s strikes to implement the ‘one nation, one election’ plan in order to carry Lok Sabha and state meeting elections concurrently, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has exhorted democratic forces to return ahead to withstand the transfer that might give absolute energy to the Centre.

    In an announcement, the Chief Minister stated the Sangh Parivar’s ‘one nation, one election’ slogan threatens the ‘thought of India’, the nation’s democratic setup and its Constitutional ideas. It additionally quantities to undermining the federal construction and giving complete authority to the Centre, he warned.

    Pinarayi stated the relevance of the Rajya Sabha, which is without doubt one of the key pillars of the Indian parliamentary system, is being questioned via the ‘one nation, one election’ transfer.’googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

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    The state meeting elections carried out at completely different phases resolve the composition of the Rajya Sabha. By conducting all state meeting elections concurrently the political variety within the Rajya Sabha can be eroded, he stated.

    The Chief Minister stated it was clear that the Sangh Parivar’s transfer to implement the ‘one nation, one election’ plan was as a result of concern of shedding the upcoming elections to 5 state assemblies.

    “The Sangh Parivar knows that a defeat in the upcoming state elections would have a bearing on its Lok Sabha prospects,” he stated.

    “The moves by the Sangh Parivar to put an end to the existence of India as a democratic country should be resisted by all means. Democratic forces in the country should come forward to resist such attempts to end the diversity in the country’s parliamentary democracy,” Pinarayi stated.