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  • After ballot debacle, Sonia desires Congress home to be put so as; election for social gathering president on June 23

    As the Congress Working Committee gathered just about on Monday to brainstorm over the social gathering’s ballot efficiency, Sonia Gandhi introduced that the method of electing the brand new social gathering president will likely be held on June 23.
    Over the previous 12 months, senior leaders like Ghulam Nabi Azad, Anand Sharma, Shashi Tharoor and Kapil Sibal have referred to as for “full-time” and “effective leadership” that will likely be “visible” and “active” within the discipline.
    Speaking over the social gathering’s efficiency within the not too long ago held Assembly polls, Gandhi mentioned that they need to “take note of the setbacks and put the house in order”.
    “A small group will be set up to look at every aspect that caused the party’s electoral reverses. We need to candidly understand as to why the Congress failed to dislodge incumbent govts in Kerala and Assam, and drew a complete blank in West Bengal,” Gandhi added.
    “These will yield uncomfortable lessons, but if we do not face up to the reality, if we do not look the facts in the face, we will not draw the right lessons,” she famous.

    Gandhi’s statements come days after she described their efficiency in final month’s Assembly elections as “very disappointing”. The Congress struggled to attraction to voters on this spherical of Assembly elections.
    In the recently-concluded Assembly polls, the social gathering did not wrest again energy in Kerala and Assam and drew a clean in West Bengal. It additionally misplaced out in Puducherry. The deliberations would assist the Congress put together for the subsequent spherical of Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur.
    In Bengal, the place the social gathering joined fingers with the Left and the ISF, it was shut out and the alliance was routed. The Trinamool swept to victory with 213 seats whereas the the BJP received 77.
    In Assam, the social gathering did marginally higher, successful 29 of 95 seats it contested. But the opposition alliance did not problem the BJP, successful simply 50 seats as towards the ruling social gathering’s 75.

    In Kerala, the Congress held its floor, shedding only one seat when in comparison with 2016 when it had received 41. The Left entrance, nevertheless, registered a commanding win by claiming 99 seats.
    In Tamil Nadu, the social gathering was a part of the successful DMK-led alliance and carried out comparatively higher, successful 18 of 25 allotted seats. It, nevertheless, did not return to energy in Puducherry because the NR Congress-BJP pairing received 16 of 30 seats.

  • Watch: PM directs his medical staff to help aged man he faints throughout Assam rally

    During an election rally in Tamulpur forward of the ultimate section of Assembly elections in Assam, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday directed his medical staff to help an aged man within the viewers who was apparently dehydrated.
    As he was addressing the election rally, Prime Minister Modi appeared to have seen the person, who was a BJP employee, shedding consciousness whereas standing within the viewers. “Can the PMO medical team please help the man in the audience? He seems to need water. Please help him immediately,” PM Modi mentioned.

    Pausing in the course of his speech at Tamulpur in Assam, PM @narendramodi promptly directed the staff of PMO medical doctors to offer instant help to an old-aged particular person, Shri Hari Charan Das, within the rally who was apparently dehydrated.
    He has been attended to and is secure now. pic.twitter.com/iuCMCy9LqF
    — BJP (@BJP4India) April 3, 2021
    The Prime Minister travels with a four-member staff of medical consultants wherever he goes, as per official protocol. The staff features a private doctor, a paramedic, surgeon and important care specialist. The staff is provided to deal with any type of medical emergency.

    At the rally, PM Modi expressed confidence within the NDA’s shot at securing a victory within the upcoming elections. He additionally laid down the work performed below him within the final 5 years, saying, “The double-engine government of NDA has given double benefits to the people of Assam in the last five years.”

  • Assam polls 2021: BJP sales space president stabbed to dying in Tinsukia

    Image Source : FILE PHOTO BJP sales space committee president stabbed to dying in Assam
    A BJP sales space committee president was stabbed to dying in Assam’s Tinsukia district by one particular person, who has already been arrested, police stated on Saturday. According to a senior police officer, the incident occurred on Friday evening at No 1 Doomdooma Nagaon village beneath Bordumsa police station of the district.

    After a minor altercation, one Jay Chandra Gogoi a number of instances stabbed BJP member Deba Gogoi, who died of the damage, police stated.

    The accused was later arrested and additional investigation is on, he added.

    Meanwhile, the Tinsukia Information and Public Relations Officer stated in a press release that there isn’t any political angle within the homicide and appealed to the individuals to keep up peace.

    “As per preliminary reports, the incident took place due to family feud,” the official launch stated.

    Meanwhile, BJP Assam President Ranjeet Kumar Dass condemned the incident and demanded strict motion towards the offender.

    The deceased was the president of the committee of the No 20 sales space of Burhidihing Gaon panchayat beneath Margherita Assembly constituency, which goes for polls within the first section on March 27. 
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  • Elections 2021 schedule: Bengal to vote in 8 phases, Assam in 3; outcomes on May 2

    The Election Commission introduced Friday the ballot schedule for 4 states and one Union Territory, during which West Bengal will vote in eight phases, Assam in three, and Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Puducherry collectively on the identical day.
    Voting will probably be unfold over a month between March 27 and April 29, and the outcomes for all 5 Assemblies will probably be introduced on May 2, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sunil Arora informed reporters.
    These are the final set of elections that Arora will oversee as CEC earlier than his retirement on April 13. By then, Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Puducherry would have completed voting, and West Bengal could be midway via its polling. After this, Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra will take over the reins and oversee the final 4 phases in West Bengal.
    The first part of polling for 30 seats in West Bengal is scheduled on March 27. The second part (30 seats) will probably be held on April 1, the third (31 seats) on April 6, fourth (44 seats) on April 10, fifth (45 seats) on April 17, sixth (43 seats) on April 22, seventh (36 seats) on April 26 and the ultimate part for remaining seats on April 29.
    Voting in Assam will probably be unfold over three phases, on March 27, April 1 and April 6, respectively. Polling in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry will probably be held in a single part on April 6.
    The 4 states and the UT of Puducherry are the primary set of Assemblies to ballot amidst the pandemic after the Bihar elections in October final 12 months. Calling Bihar a watershed second for the Commission, Arora stated that the EC would comply with the identical template for the upcoming elections and make sure that the polling personnel are vaccinated earlier than assuming their election duties.

    “The rollout of the vaccination has created a positive atmosphere regarding the election. We want to thank the Health ministry for considering Election Commission staff as frontline workers. After all frontline workers get vaccinated, Election Commission staff will get inoculated at the head office,” Arora stated.
    Like Bihar, the EC has elevated the variety of polling stations in every of the 4 states and UT to restrict voters’ most quantity in every polling station to 1,000. In the pre-Covid period, as much as 1,500 voters might vote at a polling station. For occasion, the variety of polling stations in West Bengal have been elevated by near 32% and in Assam by 35%. Voting time, like in Bihar, has additionally been elevated for the upcoming elections by one hour.

    Of these 5 assemblies, Puducherry was the one one which the Congress might win final time. Currently, President’s Rule has been imposed there and the Assembly stored below suspended animation after the collapse of the V Narayanasamy-led Congress authorities.
    West Bengal will probably be keenly watched this election because the BJP, which elevated its vote share and seat tally within the state in the course of the Lok Sabha elections in 2019, campaigns aggressively to attempt to wrest energy from Trinamool Congress.

    In Tamil Nadu, eager to oust the ruling AIADMK within the forthcoming elections, the DMK has began distributing utility types, searching for aspirants wishing to contest the polls on the social gathering’s image – the ‘rising sun’. The means of handing out utility types has been underway since February 17.

  • Decision 2021: Five meeting polls to start March 27, Bengal to vote in eight phases; relying on May 2

    The Election Commission Friday introduced the schedule for Assembly elections in 4 poll-bound states and one Union Territory (Puducherry) the place almost 18.68 crore electors will vote at 2.7 lakh polling stations for a complete of 824 seats. While the elections will begin with voting in Assam and West Bengal on March 27, outcomes will likely be introduced on May 2.
    The elections in West Bengal will likely be held in eight phases, the EC introduced. The dates on which voting will happen for the 294 seats in Bengal are March 27, April 1, April 6, April 10, April 17, April 22, April 26 and April 29.
    Voting for 126 seats in Assam will likely be carried out in three phases on March 27, April 1 and April 6, whereas polling for Kerala’s 140 seats, Tamil Nadu’s 234 seats and Puducherry’s 30 seats will happen in a single section on April 6.
    Arora additionally said that this election would be the final set throughout his tenure as he’s set to demit workplace on April 13. Spelling out the Covid-19 measures, Arora stated door-to-door campaigning for the polls will likely be restricted to 5 individuals together with the candidate. Although roadshows will allowed, there will likely be separate norms for suspected Covid-19 sufferers.
    All the polling officers will likely be vaccinated in opposition to Covid-19 earlier than elections, Arora stated. “Vaccination drive has made the situation more conducive for elections, everyone on poll duty declared frontline worker for vaccine purpose,” he added. Arrangements will likely be put in place for candidates to file their nominations on-line whereas the voting course of will likely be allowed for a further hour, conserving in thoughts COVID-19 security tips, he stated.

    Apart from these, webcasting association will likely be in place at polling stations in essential and weak areas. While ample CAPF (Central Armed Police Forces) deployment will likely be ensured for the meeting polls, Arora stated.

    All essential and weak areas have been recognized and advance groups have been already deployed throughout the 4 states and one Union Territories. Arora additionally stated the EC will appoint two particular observers for the polls in Bengal. If wanted, a 3rd can be despatched, he added.

  • Nothing incorrect in tie up with AIUDF, get together not communal: Assam Cong chief

    Written by Asim Kamal
    Slamming the BJP for its criticism of his get together’s alliance with the AIUDF for the upcoming state polls, Congress’ Assam unit chief Ripun Bora on Monday mentioned there was nothing incorrect in aligning with the Badruddin Ajmal-led outfit because it was not communal and can’t be thought to be an “untouchable”.
    Bora additionally mentioned that “winds of change” had been blowing in Assam and expressed confidence that the Congress, together with its allies — the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), the CPI, the CPI(M), the CPI(ML) and the Anchalik Gana Morcha — will win over 101 out of the 126 Assembly seats within the polls probably in March-April.
    In an interview with PTI, Bora mentioned it was not the Congress’ conference to announce a chief ministerial face prematurely and the get together will determine on who would be the chief minister solely after elections.

    The Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) chief lashed out on the BJP for attacking the Congress over its alliance with the AIUDF, saying that whereas the BJP had up to now aligned with the PDP in Jammu and Kashmir, it was questioning the Congress’ tie-up with the Ajmal-led get together.
    “The BJP people aligned with the PDP which does not accept the Indian flag. Aligning with that party is not an offence, but the Congress aligning with the AIUDF in Assam is an offence,” he requested.
    In Assam, the BJP is sharing energy with the AIUDF in at the very least three Zila Parishad districts, Bora argued.
    “What is the harm in aligning with the AIUDF, they are not unconstitutional, they are not untouchable. How can you say they are communal. If you respect your own religion, you are not communal. The BJP is communal,” he alleged.
    The BJP is targeted on communalisation, however for the folks of Assam, the principle challenge is to avoid wasting the state due to the best way the BJP and the RSS have attacked the identification, tradition and heritage of Assam by the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), Bora mentioned.
    The CAA goes to destroy the whole social cloth of Assam, it’ll divide the folks and create communal disturbance in addition to battle between completely different castes, communities and religions within the state, he alleged, including that the CAA is not going to serve any function for the folks.
    “The CAA will bring threat to the language and to the existence of the culture of the people of Assam. Therefore, even though the BJP has declared that after elections they are going to implement the CAA, but we in the Congress have said that after the election if our Congress party comes to power, we will not allow the implementation of the CAA in Assam,” Bora mentioned.
    On Sunday at a rally right here, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi had additionally mentioned his get together will shield each precept of the Assam Accord and won’t let the CAA be carried out if voted to energy within the upcoming meeting polls.
    Bora additionally hit out on the BJP over the problem of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) for Assam, saying it has been an extended standing demand of Assam however the BJP has stopped the NRC after ultimate publication.
    The Congress’ stand is evident that the NRC, the ultimate listing which has come out with 3.11 crore folks of Assam, ought to be accepted, Bora mentioned.
    “Secondly, side by side we have said that 19 lakh names which are not there, all of them are not foreigners, most of them are Indians, we have demanded that those people as per the rule of NRC should be given an opportunity of appealing before court so that they can prove themselves as Indian citizens,” he mentioned.
    Asked when the seat sharing association between the Congress and its allies shall be finalised, Bora mentioned he can’t share the small print of inside deliberations however it will likely be sealed quickly.
    Some small disputes and variations are there which shall be sorted out, he mentioned.
    Bora additionally mentioned the alliance will “very soon” come out with an attraction to the folks elaborating the problems for which the six events have come on a standard platform, including that the CPI(M) has some reservations about calling it a ‘common minimum programme’.
    Asked if a chief ministerial face shall be introduced, Bora mentioned the Congress conference is that it doesn’t undertaking a CM.
    “It is a party of internal democracy. So the party will decide who will be chief minister only after elections, that is the democratic way. It is not only the case with Assam but in other states also the party has followed this,” he asserted.
    On the Congress’ probabilities within the upcoming Assembly polls, he mentioned the “winds of change are blowing” within the state and there’s a “tremendous undercurrent” in favour of the Congress and its allies.

    “People are scared of coming out openly (against the BJP) as they are being threatened and blackmailed that if you go with the Congress you will not get benefits,” he alleged.
    Accusing the BJP of creating false guarantees, Bora mentioned the folks of Assam are feeling a “sense of betrayal”, realising that the ruling get together has solely been making “false promises”.
    The six party-alliance is not going to simply get a transparent majority however is assured of getting 101 plus seats, Bora mentioned.

    The APCC has introduced that it’ll contest the forthcoming state polls in alliance with 5 events the AIUDF, the CPI, the CPI(M), the CPI(ML) and the Anchalik Gana Morcha to oust the ruling BJP from energy.