Delhi talk: Nirmala-Jaishankar will not contest from Karnataka
New Delhi: BJP Nirmala Sitharaman and S. Jaishankar has given up on the idea of contesting the Lok Sabha elections from Karnataka. Union Minister Prahlad Joshi had also announced that Finance Minister Nirmala and External Affairs Minister Jaishankar would contest the Lok Sabha elections from Karnataka, but then they reversed. Now the BJP is looking for safe seats outside Karnataka for both.
BJP sources say that it was decided to field both Nirmala and Jaishankar from the two Lok Sabha seats in Bengaluru, but following the internal report of the BJP, the BJP will not take such a risk anymore. Both Nirmala and Jaishankar are not from Karnataka, so Congress will get an opportunity to raise the issue of BJP imposing outsiders on the people of Karnataka, the fear is expressed in this report. The report has also warned that the BJP will have to be ready to face a tough fight against the Congress in Karnataka.
Congress in trouble over Pratibha's chief ministership
Congress leaders have lost sleep as the Congress government is under threat due to the cross voting in the Rajya Sabha elections in Himachal Pradesh. Congress high command Bhupendra Hooda and D.K. Shivakumar has to run Himachal Pradesh. Both the leaders are eager to convince the family of former Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, but Congress sources say that they do not want anything less than the Chief Ministership.
self Virbhadra Singh's wife Pratibha Singh even refused to talk to the high command. Shivakumar spoke to Pratibha's son Vikramaditya Singh and demanded that Pratibha's mother be made Chief Minister. Vikramaditya has also shown his readiness to quit the MLA post and contest the Lok Sabha elections if Pratibha is appointed as Chief Minister.
A local Congress leader believes that this is a win-win deal for the Congress. If Pratibha is made the Chief Minister, the government will also be saved and one Lok Sabha seat may also come to the Congress account.
Nitish's Chokhliaveda angered BJP leaders
In Bihar, Nitish Kumar is said to have created a ruckus at a meeting of NDA MLAs warning against taking on controversial RJD and Congress MLAs. BJP leaders objected to Nitish's comments and urged them to refrain from interfering in each other's internal affairs.
BJP sources say that Nitish gave this advice in the context of one RJD and two Congress MLAs joining the BJP recently. After Nitish's re-alignment with BJP, a total of six opposition MLAs, four from RJD and two from Congress, have joined the BJP. During Nitish's vote of confidence, three RJD MLAs voted in Nitish's favor and later joined the BJP.
BJP says that we have no objection to Nitish showing Chokhliaveda to save his image but BJP does not need his advice. BJP itself knows exactly how to play politics.
Mulayam's ally Revati in a mood to leave SP
Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh, allies are moving away from the Samajwadi Party on one hand and Jayant Chaudhary and Pallavi Patel have left Akhilesh, while on the other hand veteran leaders are also leaving the SP. A new name Revati Raman Singh has been added to this list.
Manata Revati Raman Singh, a veteran leader of Prayagraj and very close to Mulayam Singh, has been elected as an MLA 8 times and a member of the Lok Sabha 3 times. Disgruntled Revathi Raman is preparing to leave the party after the SP gave the Prayagraj seat to the Congress in an agreement with the Congress. Revathi Raman demanded to give the ticket to his son Ujjwal Singh from Prayagraj but Akhilesh is upset when he gave this seat to Congress. Akhilesh was upset when Revathi Raman was removed from the post of Chief Minister a few days ago. Now this new point has been added to it.
Singhvi became the second Ajay Maken
With the defeat in the Rajya Sabha elections in Himachal Pradesh, there is a running joke that Abhishek Manu Singhvi has become the second Ajay Maken of the Congress. Since Singhvi is fighting Nehru-Gandhi nobility cases, there is also a joke that now Singhvi will have to find another safe seat.
Maken also lost the 2022 Rajya Sabha election from Haryana by one vote. Media baron Kartikeya Sharma stood as an independent and the BJP supported him. Sharma defeated Maken by sabotaging the Congress. This time the Congress has won Maken from the easy seat of Karnataka.
Both Singhvi and Maken are close to the Nehru-Gandhi nobility. Both of them were betrayed by the leaders of the Congress. In Maken's case, Kuldeep Chautala did not vote for the Congress candidate while in Singhvi's case, Harsh Mahajan from the Congress got the votes of six Congress MLAs and lost.
Congress-Left parties also jumped on the message issue
Congress and Left parties have also come into the fray on the issue of Sandeshkhali violence in West Bengal. The BJP has raised the issue of Trinamool Congress goons raping Hindu women and grabbing land in Sandeshkhali. While the BJP is protesting strongly in Sandeshkhali, the Congress and the Left parties have also started trying to take political advantage of the issue by sending Sandeshkhali to their delegations. The police stopped the leaders of both the parties from leaving the message, but it is clear from the Congress-Left stance that the anti-BJP India Front in Bengal has reached its end.
Trinamool Congress leaders say that instead of fighting against the BJP's misinformation on the Sandeshakhli issue, the Left-Congress leaders are acting in a way that benefits the BJP. From that, it is clear that he has a nexus with the BJP. In these circumstances, alliance with Congress is not possible now.
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Rahul, will you stand from Wayanad? Left Party Question
From this seat of Congress leader and Kerala-based Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi, the CPI, a constituent party of the opposition India Front of which the Congress is a constituent, has fielded its candidate Anne Raja. Annie Raja is a member of the National Executive of the CPI. He is the general secretary of the party D. Married to the king. Now CPI (M) targeted Rahul and said that Rahul Gandhi and Congress need to think. They have been saying that their battle is against the BJP. What message will you send to the country if you contest from the Wayanad seat in Kerala against the Left Party? Hence, Rahul needs to think again about his seat, said CPI (Marxism) leader Vrinda Karat.
NDA needs 4 seats for majority in upper house
With today's victory on 30 seats, BJP's seats in the Rajya Sabha will reach 97, while NDA's 117. But the NDA now needs only four more seats for a majority in the House. BJP is becoming the single largest party in the House. Rajya Sabha currently has 240 members with a total strength of 245 members. Four seats in Jammu and Kashmir, while a total of five seats are vacant, including one seat filled by appointment.
Pro-Pakistan slogans in Assembly: Karnataka BJP
In a video posted by Hussain on his social media account after Congress candidate Syed Nasir Hussain was elected to the Rajya Sabha from Karnataka, some of Hussain's supporters were seen chanting slogans like Nasir Hussain Zindabad, Nasir Sahab Zindabad and Congress Party Zindabad. However, the BJP has said in a complaint filed at the assembly police station that Hussain's supporters gathered there shouted slogans of Pakistan Zindabad when the election officer in the Rajya Sabha declared Hussain the winner of the Rajya Sabha.
Rajya Sabha Elections: Use of Lottery System
The BJP's 'ability' to show victory even in seemingly unattainable seats was proved in the Rajya Sabha biennial elections held in the country on Tuesday...! With the Congress and other opposition MPs doing a lot of cross-voting, the only seat in the Rajya Sabha of Himachal Pradesh went into the BJP's pocket, despite the Congress having an additional eight votes..! Defeating one of the three candidates from the Samajwadi Party, the BJP won eight seats in the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh. In Himachal Pradesh, Congress candidate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, while BJP candidate Harsh Mahajan, both got 34-34 votes. This clearly means that 9 members of the Congress and some of its allies helped the BJP by cross-voting. Hence a lottery system had to be resorted to which declared the BJP candidate as the winner.
Ban on Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu-Kashmir extended
In a post on Tuesday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that the ban on the Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu Kashmir organization under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act has been extended for another five years in line with the central government's policy of zero tolerance against terrorism and separatism. Earlier, in February, 2019, it was declared an illegal organization for the first time.
- Inder Sahni
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