New Delhi: The alliance between the BJP and Dushyant Chautala's Janayak Janata Party (JJP) in Haryana is said to be on the verge of breaking. Chautala has given an ultimatum to the BJP as people are outraged in Haryana due to the wrestlers' agitation. The BJP has also arranged for four independents and Haryana Lokhit Party's sole MLA Gopal Kanda to ensure that the government does not fall even if the JJP withdraws.
BJP's Haryana in-charge Biplab Kumar Deb met Chief Minister Manoharlal Khattar in Chandigarh after meeting four independent MLAs and Gopal Kanda in New Delhi. Deb tweeted his pictures with MLAs and claimed that. These MLAs have pledged loyalty to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Khattar's leadership to strengthen the country and the state.
The JJP is upset with the Centre's stance on issues such as farmers' and wrestlers' protests. JJP leader and Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala's Uchana Kalan Assembly seat has been claimed by the BJP, which has led to a rift between the two.
Priyanka will go to Rajya Sabha from Himachal
While a section of Congress leaders are demanding that Priyanka Gandhi contest the Lok Sabha elections, the Congress has decided that Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will not contest the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Instead, Priyanka Gandhi will go to the Rajya Sabha. Preparations are underway to send Priyanka Gandhi to the Rajya Sabha from Himachal Pradesh.
This decision has been taken in a meeting of senior party leaders with Sonia Gandhi. Instead of contesting the Lok Sabha elections, Priyanka will campaign for the Congress across the country. A Rajya Sabha MP from Chhattisgarh has offered to resign to make way for Priyanka Gandhi in the Rajya Sabha, but Priyanka will contest from Himachal. Two other Congress Rajya Sabha MPs are also ready to stand up for Priyanka.
Leaders including Sonia are of the opinion that as a star campaigner, Sonia can help the Congress more so she should not contest the Lok Sabha elections. If Priyanka contests the Lok Sabha elections, she will not be able to give more time to the Congress campaign. Congress hopes to gain more if Priyanka campaigns for the party's candidates.
Congress happy with BJP-JDS alliance
Congress is happy with the news that BJP will tie up with JDS in Karnataka. Congress believes that if BJP and JDS combine, the Muslim votes will completely shift towards it. Congress will also get votes from the Lingayat community as the Lingayat community is opposed to the JDS.
BJP also knows these equations. This is why the BJP did not tie up with the JDS even though the JDS was interested in an alliance with the BJP in the Karnataka assembly elections. The BJP had calculated that the Vokkaliga-Muslim vote bank of the JDS would hurt the Congress but instead the BJP got hit. BJP's vote share has decreased by more than five percent as the two major vote banks of JDS Muslims and BJP's Lingayats shifted to Congress. Now JDS does not have much hope of converting the Muslim vote bank to it and BJP has the lure of votes from the vocal community so both will tie up for the Lok Sabha elections.
The talk of Sidhu's wife was ridiculed in the Congress itself
Navjot Kaur, wife of Sidhu's Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu, claimed that her husband gifted Bhagwant Mann the chief ministership by not joining the Aam Aadmi Party. Arvind Kejriwal wanted Navjot Singh Sidhu to lead him in Punjab but Sidhu did not want to betray his party Congress.
While the war of words is going on between Navjot Singh Sidhu and Bhagwant Mann, Kaur tweeted that Kejriwal had approached Sidhu through various media but Sidhu had refused. Elections were held in Punjab in February 2022 and Bhagwant Mann became the Chief Minister after AAP's landslide victory.
Congress leaders are making fun of Navjot's talk by calling it fishyari. He says that Sidhu could not win the Congress and now he is talking nonsense in front of his wife. These words do not even make sense now.
Nitesh Rane clenched his stomach and raised a colic
BJP leader Nilesh Rane called Sharad Pawar an avatar of Aurangzeb and there has been a controversy. On the one hand, NCP has become aggressive and hit the streets against Rane's remarks, on the other hand, BJP leaders are also displeased. BJP leaders are of the opinion that Rane has spread his stomach. When the leaders including Modi show respect towards Pawar, the BJP leader makes such a comment, so the image of BJP will deteriorate and Pawar will benefit.
Rane wrote on Twitter on June 7 that, sometimes it seems that Sharad Pawar is Aurangzeb incarnate. Pawar Sahib is worried about the Muslim community as the elections approach.
After the Kolhapur violence, Sharad Pawar said, the situation is such that we should worry about Muslims and Christians. In response, Nilesh called him the incarnation of Aurangzeb.
Owaisi, Muslim League out of opposition seat
It has been decided to keep Asaduddin Owaisi and the Indian Muslim League away from the meeting of anti-BJP parties to be held in Patna. Sources say that both of them will be kept away from the seat as the impression of this front is not already of Muslim front and BJP does not get the issue.
Out of the 20 opposition parties that boycotted the inauguration of the new Parliament building along with the Congress, only 15 party presidents will attend the meeting. Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar Tejashwi Yadav announced that 15 opposition leaders will reach the meeting chaired by Nitish Kumar of Bihar. Mamata Banerjee and Uddhav Thackeray are scheduled to attend while Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge from Congress will attend.
BSP chief Mayawati, Jagan Mohan Reddy, Chandrasekhar Rao, Naveen Patnaik, Chandrababu Naidu, H.D. Deve Gowda, Sukhbir Singh Badal will not attend this meeting. Most of these leaders are in alliance with BJP.
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Pastell on Giriraj, an admirer of Godse
Union Minister for Rural Development and Panchayatiraj and BJP's firebrand Bihari leader Giriraj Singh has been criticized by the opposition for calling Mahatma Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse a son of India. Giriraj Singh, who visited Chhattisgarh's Bastar region on Friday, said Gandhi-assassin Godse was born in India and was not an invader of India like Babur or Aurangzeb. Against this, Bihar JD(U) leader Neeraj Kumar took a dig at Giriraj and said that in Giriraj's language, gangsters like Veerappan, underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and fugitive financial criminal Vijay Mallya can also be placed in the ranks of Godse. Godse was a disgrace to India. Only BJP can respect that, added Neeraj Kumar.
Train accident: Suffers lives
The agony of the Balasore triple train accident in Odisha, which killed 288 passengers and injured hundreds of others, is unimaginable: claimants of the deceased's relatives are either mistakenly being handed the body of another person, or the bodies have already been swapped. Sometimes there is a mistake in the identity of the deceased or negligence on the part of the authorities. There are many claimants to one body. A mother named Sabillah Mulla, who lost her young son in an accident, identified her son from the pictures of the dead plastered on the walls of AIIMS, Bhubaneswar. A woman from West Bengal struggled to identify her son from the mortuary. However, when he did not find his son's body, he inquired before the authorities and was told to take someone else's body that matched his son's face. He was informed about the death of his son over the phone, after which he had to borrow Rs 15,000 from a neighbor and reach Odisha to get his son's body. He identified the body number-9 as that of his son as shown in the website but he was asked to take another body!
There will be a review of the land given to the Union
The Siddaramaiah-led Congress government will review the land given by the previous BJP government in Karnataka to the RSS and its affiliates in Karnataka. Karnataka Health and Family Welfare Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao said that some tenders awarded by the BJP government have been cancelled, while others will be reviewed. Dinesh Gundurav said on Friday that hundreds of acres of government land have been transferred to RSS and Sangh Parivar affiliated organizations. All these cases will be reviewed. Our operations should be transparent. People should be convinced of that. If toxic information is poured into the hearts and minds of children, it will be dangerous. We will take strict action, he added.
Paper-leak case: Investigation by ED in several cities
ED (Directorate of Enforcement) in Senior Teacher Grade-2 Paper Leak Case and Writ Paper Leak Case under PMLA, 2002 at different residences of 27 people in Jaipur, Jodhpur, Udaipur, Ajmer, Dungarpur, Barmer, Sikar and Jalore in Rajasthan. Search operations were conducted on Monday. Rajasthan Police initiated an investigation under ED PMLA, 2002 on the basis of the offense of paper leak case registered under various sections of IPC in the matter of Senior Teacher Grade-II examination conducted by RPSC and Reit Examination Board, in which it was found that the suspected persons were leaking the said examination papers. She was also involved in the paper-splitting scam and arranging dummy candidates.
Hanuman devotee Kamal Nath with Bajrang Sena
In the election-state of Madhya Pradesh, Congress's new ally-party has agitated for Ram Janmabhoomi and campaigned for Yogi Adityanath in Uttar Pradesh elections. However, it is not just a religious organization. A little-known outfit called the Bajrang Sena announced on Tuesday that it was merging with the Congress party. Madhya Pradesh Congress President and former Chief Minister Kamal Nath handed over the rightful penalty amidst slogans of Jayashree Ram in the unification program held at the Congress headquarters in Bhopal. Army Chief Ranveer Pateria said that this organization was started in 2013. Pateria himself had previously been a member of the Bajrang Dal for a year. However, they could not find a suitable environment to work there, he added.
Who is Priyanka's successor in UP?
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has already resigned from the post of Congress General Minister in charge of Uttar Pradesh in October, 2022. This was before Mallikarjun Khadge was elected as party president. In the most politically dominant state of the country, the party was in limbo for eight months. Priyanka submitted her resignation to interim president Sonia Gandhi after the new team for Uttar Pradesh Congress was announced. Now they are looking for new operations in poll-bound states where they can campaign like in Himachal Pradesh and Karnataka.
The changes made in the books will be reviewed
In Karnataka, the new Congress state government has set up a professional committee to delete controversial chapters added by the previous BJP government in school textbooks. The matter will be decided expeditiously in the interest of the children, said State Primary and Secondary Education Minister Madhu Bangrappa on Friday. However, he refrained from giving the details of the dropped chapters. BJP is so mentally corrupt that they want to remove anything against them in the education system. However, we are not doing anything pro-Congress or anti-BJP. We will do whatever is possible in the interest of the children, added Bangrappa.
- Inder Sahni
