October, 2018
Congress looks for new chiefs in Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal and Mumbai
The Congress has started looking for new heads for its Mumbai, Delhi, Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh units, according to a party functionary aware of the process. The aim is to end infighting in some units and give others a fresh start. The party is out of power in all these places, and the new chiefs’ first job would be to rebuild the organisation before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Delhi Delhi chief Ajay Maken, who went abroad last month for a medical check-up, has told the leadership it willRead More
Akhilesh Yadav asks SP workers to go all out to defeat BJP in 2019
Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav has asked party workers to make every effort to defeat the BJP, which he blamed for the hardships of ordinary people. Speaking to workers at his native village of Saifai, he said the party’s goal was to wipe out the BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Demonetisation and jobs Yadav described the BJP as a party of false promises. He said the country was still struggling to recover, mentally and financially, from demonetisation, and claimed that ordinary people had turned against the BJP afterRead More
Rajasthan polls: vote for change, not just to defeat BJP, Kejriwal tells Jaipur rally
Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi Chief Minister and national convener of the Aam Aadmi Party, on Sunday asked Rajasthan’s voters to back real change in the coming assembly election rather than merely vote out the ruling party. He was speaking at a rally at Jaipur’s Ramlila Maidan. Breaking the cycle Kejriwal said the Congress and the BJP had taken turns to govern Rajasthan, each for five years. When people saw no work under one party, he said, they voted for the other, and the defeated party returned to power five years later.Read More
Assembly elections 2018: full schedule for Rajasthan, MP, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Mizoram
Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Mizoram are heading into assembly elections in late 2018, a round billed as a semi-final before the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. The contest pits the BJP against the opposition, and the key dates for each state are set out below. The political backdrop The BJP governs the three Hindi heartland states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, having swept them last time in a campaign led by Narendra Modi, then Gujarat Chief Minister and the party’s prime ministerial candidate. In Mizoram, the Congress wonRead More
BJP units in MP and Rajasthan seek Yogi Adityanath as star campaigner
The BJP‘s units in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan are keen for Yogi Adityanath, the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, to campaign in their states in the upcoming assembly elections, with the aim of consolidating Hindu votes, according to people familiar with the discussions. Demand for Adityanath Adityanath, who became UP Chief Minister last March and heads the Gorakhnath mutt, campaigned in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh in 2017 and in Karnataka in 2018. Madhya Pradesh BJP leader Rajneesh Agarwal said the central leadership would decide his schedule, but the state unit hopedRead More