New Delhi: The poster war between BJP and Aam Aadmi Party has become fierce. The Delhi Police has registered 136 FIRs against AAP putting up 'Modi Hatao, Desh Bachao' posters in Delhi. Against this, Kejriwal's party protested by holding a meeting at Delhi's Jantar-Mantar. BJP put up posters of 'Remove Kejriwal' in Delhi. On March 30, AAP will put up posters of 'Modi Hatao, Desh Bachao' across the country against the 'Kejriwal Khatao' poster.

Delhi Government Minister Gopal Rai has said that even during the British rule, 136 FIRs were not registered for putting up posters. Rai also challenged that when an FIR was registered for putting up posters in Delhi, now thousands of people are standing at Jantar-Mantar with posters of Modi Hatao, Desh Bachao. If you dare come here and file an FIR.

Naveen ready to join Mamata-Akhilesh

After Mamata Banerjee met Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in Bhubaneswar, speculations about the formation of a third front have intensified. Mamata has invited Naveen to join the anti-BJP and anti-Congress opposition in the new front ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. Currently Samajwadi Party and Trinamool Congress are in this front.

Akhilesh Yadav has decided to meet Mamata Banerjee at her residence in Kolkata to form a new front keeping equal distance from both BJP and Congress. Akhilesh announced that SP will stand by Mamata to defeat BJP. Akhilesh said that if we can defeat BJP in UP, we can defeat BJP in the whole country.

Sources claim that Naveen has no objection to joining any front other than Congress so his response was positive. Naveen himself has tried to form an opposition front against BJP and Congress in the past so he does not mind standing with Mamata.

Brahmins are more important for BJP in Rajasthan

With eight months left for the Rajasthan assembly elections, BJP surprisingly removed Satish Punia as the state president of Rajasthan and replaced Chittorgarh Lok Sabha MP Chandraprakash Joshi alias C.P. Joshi has been made the state president. This decision of BJP is considered very important politically as Joshi is a Brahmin. BJP has indicated that the Brahmin vote bank in Rajasthan is the most important for the BJP by changing the state president in the election year itself.

Satish Punia is a Jat leader. Jat vote bank is much bigger than Brahmins but not completely with BJP while Brahmins are with BJP hence chose Joshi. Joshi's roots are with the RSS.

Punia's ouster is a win for the Vasundhara Raje group. Vasundhara and Punia had twelfth moon. By removing him, the BJP has signaled that it is not ready to ignore the Kshatriya vote bank and Vasundhara.

BJP's OBC president against Nitish-Tejaswi

The BJP gave a huge boost by replacing four state presidents at once. By appointing new state presidents in Rajasthan, Odisha, Bihar and Delhi, the BJP is seen as trying to curb internal factionalism and balance caste-based equations in opposition-ruled states ahead of the Lok Sabha polls.

The most important of these appointments is that of Samrat Chaudhary, Leader of the Opposition in the State Legislative Council in Bihar. By making Kushwaha leader Choudhary the state president, it is clear that BJP is meeting the OBC vote bank. This change has been made as it seems that Lok Sabha MP Sanjay Jaiswal cannot stand up to Nitish-Tejaswi. The BJP has made the Lok Sabha battle interesting by choosing from castes that traditionally vote for Nitish Kumar.

In Odisha, OBC leader Manmohan Samal has been made the state president while acting president Virendra Sachdeva has been made permanent. In Delhi, Virender Sachdeva has been the acting regional president since Adesh Gupta resigned after losing the corporation elections in December.

Congress collapsed when Rahul let Sarma go

Ghulam Nabi Azad has held Rahul responsible for Himmat Biswa Sarma's departure from the Congress and claimed that because of Rahul's mistake, the Congress fell in the North-East. In his autobiography, Azad has mentioned the Chief Minister of Assam, Himanta Biswa Sarmo, and said that Rahul Gandhi's clear answer was, "Let him go" when Rahul Gandhi was jammed and that Himanta was leaving the party due to the support of many MLAs in Assam. Rahul didn't even believe Sonia's words that time.

According to Azad's claim, Sonia Gandhi felt that Himanta's departure would hurt the Congress, but Rahul did not believe her. After that even Sonia Gandhi did not intervene as President.

Sarma joined the BJP after quitting the Congress and is currently the Chief Minister of Assam. When he left the Congress in September 2015, 10 MLAs also left with him. Rahul directly said that there will be no leadership change in Assam.

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Congress's response to BJP's compliments

By showing the video of the Andaman jail where Tamil actress Khushboo Sundar Veer Savarkar, who joined the BJP in October 2020 after breaking with the Congress, asked Rahul Gandhi whether he could stay in this jail for a few days? After that, Khushboo asked another question to Rahul that what do you know about sacrifice? Congress media chief Pawan Khera gave a jaw-dropping reply to Khushboo, tweeting that a person who has seen many of his relatives martyred for the country is being asked about his understanding of sacrifice. Even if politics dulls your rationality, it is not fair that it saps the human in you, added Khera.

- Inder Sahni