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Vote for strongest opponent where we won't have candidate: BJP's campaign for Bengal panchayat polls
"If there is no candidate from any registered political party for a particular seat, then our plea will be to vote for the strongest independent candidate," said a member of the state committee of BJP. He admitted that this strategy is in line with the recent call given by the Leader of the Opposition in West Bengal Suvendu Adhikari where the focus is "no vote to Trinamool". Adhikari's belief is that Trinamool Congress's success in the 2021 Assembly polls was to an extent contributed by "no vote to BJP"
As Shivraj counters anti-incumbency with freebies, MP's debt balloons out of control
The state government is announcing a series of populist schemes and freebies to woo the voters while the state is reeling under debt of around Rs 3.5 lakh crore. Experts say that the average per capita debt in the state has sharply increased in the past five-six years. If the debt figures are taken into consideration, every citizen in the state has a debt of Rs 41,000.
In the season of freebie politics, all fingers crossed over K'taka's fiscal health
Former chief minister Basavaraj Bommai has raised concerns over the withdrawal of Rs 1,500 crore allocated towards MSP for farmers in the last budget. He also voiced concern over diverting funds allotted to construct 9,556 school buildings across the state. He warned against cutting funds allotted for the free dialysis facility towards one lakh cycles, free chemotherapy treatment for cancer patients.
Telangana BJP pins hopes on Amit Shah's June 15 public meeting
The meeting is expected to lift the sagging morale of the party in the wake of shock defeat in Karnataka and prepare it for the Telangana Assembly polls due to be held in November-December. Shah's visit also comes amid the internal strife in the BJP with a section of leaders demanding a change in the state leadership and the party's failure to lure former MP Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy and former minister Jupally Krishna Rao to its fold.
Kejriwal accuses BJP, Congress of copying AAP's manifesto
Inaugurating the scheme in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, Chauhan announced that his government would transfer Rs 1000 to women under the 'Mukhyamantri Ladli Behna Yojana,' and they had received 1.25 crore registrations for the scheme.
Kurmis adopt two-pronged strategy for Bengal panchayat polls
According to senior leader Ashok Mahato, the first part of the strategy is to field independent candidates from the community especially in areas with a substantial number of Kurmi voters. "First we have decided to field independent candidates from within our community to make all political forces aware of the importance of the people from our community in the electoral system.
Chidambaram hits out at BJP for 'absolute intolerance to any criticism'
Taking to Twitter, Chidambaram said: “Kharge is also the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha. He is entitled to write to the Prime Minister. In a functioning democracy, the people expect the Prime Minister to reply to the letter. But our democracy is such that the Prime Minister will not deem it worthy to reply.
Lok Sabha polls: Raje assigned 4 Jharkhand seats; Poonia gets 4 in UP
While former Rajasthan Chief Minister Raje has been assigned Giridih, Dumka, Godda and Koderma Lok Sabha seats in Jharkhand, former state BJP President Poonia has been made joint in-charge of Mainpuri, Amroha, Muradabad and Sambhal seats in Uttar Pradesh.
Congress replaces Gujarat unit chief Jagdish Thakor with Shaktisinh Gohil
The Congress also made changes in the leadership of several state units as Gohil has been replaced by Deepak Babaria as incharge of Delhi and Haryana. Congress General Secretary K.C. Venugopal, in a communique, said: "Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge has appointed Gohil as Gujarat unit chief."
10 parties, led by Congress, seek PM Modi's intervention on Manipur crisis
O. Ibobi Singh also emphasised that while the visit of Union Home Minister Amit Shah was appreciated, Manipur continued to suffer from unabated unrest and persistent reports of violence. The Congress leader further expressed the view that if the Central government had intervened on time, the crisis could have been resolved much earlier.
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