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कोरोना की दूसरी लहर के चपेट में चुनाव: राहुल ने बंगाल में अपनी सभी चुनावी सभाएं रद्द कीं; ममता की अपील- बचे चरणों के चुनाव एक साथ कराए चुनाव आयोग

कोरोना की दूसरी लहर के चपेट में चुनाव: राहुल ने बंगाल में अपनी सभी चुनावी सभाएं रद्द कीं; ममता की अपील- बचे चरणों के चुनाव एक साथ कराए चुनाव आयोग

Hindi News Election 2021 West Bengal Assembly Election 2021 | Rahul Gandhi, Mamata Banerjee, Election Commission Of India (ECI), Coronavirus Latest News Update, Corona Cases In Bengal Ads से है परेशान? बिना Ads खबरों के लिए इनस्टॉल करें दैनिक भास्कर ऐप नई दिल्ली/कोलकाता19 मिनट पहले कॉपी लिंक देश में कोरोना के हालात बिगड़ने के बाद राजनेताओं को लोगों की चिंता सताने लगी है। इसके मद्देनजर कांग्रेस…

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BJP Trying to Destroy Bengal and Its Culture, Says Rahul Gandhi at Bengal Rally

BJP Trying to Destroy Bengal and Its Culture, Says Rahul Gandhi at Bengal Rally

Goalpokhor (West Bengal): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Wednesday termed BJP claims to build “Sonar Bangla” (golden Bengal) as a “mirage” and said the saffron party has nothing to offer except for hatred, violence and dividing people on the basis of language, religion, caste and creed. During his first rally in Bengal in this election season, Gandhi took a dig at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and…

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Mamata Banerjee to Hold Dharna in Kolkata; Amit Shah, JP Nadda to Hold Poll Rallies

Mamata Banerjee to Hold Dharna in Kolkata; Amit Shah, JP Nadda to Hold Poll Rallies

Shah is scheduled to hold a rally in Darjeeling’s Gorkha Stadium, a public meeting in Nagrakata in Jalpaiguri, a roadshow from the state Farm Colony School ground to Milanpally Durga Mandir in Uttar Dinajpur district’s Islampur, and programmes in Bhidhan Nagar and Dum Dum in Kolkata. Nadda will hold three roadshows in Katwa, Bardhaman and Nadia. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi too has scheduled a…

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West Bengal Election 2021 LIVE: Bowl BJP out of Nandigram, says Mamata

West Bengal Election 2021 LIVE: Bowl BJP out of Nandigram, says Mamata

In a show of might ahead of the second phase of West Bengal elections, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday held a massive roadshow in the high- profile Nandigram constituency. Locals queued up on two sides of the road and watched the procession, which inched its way through the narrow streets amid chants of ‘Jai Shri Ram’, ‘Narendra Modi Zindabad’ and ‘Amit Shah Zindabad’. All eyes are on…

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Assembly Elections 2021 LIVE: आज असम में होंगे राहुल गांधी, छात्रों और चाय बागान के श्रमिकों से मिलेंगे Assembly Elections 2021 Live updates West bengal tamil nadu kerala Assam Puducherry

Assembly Elections 2021 LIVE: आज असम में होंगे राहुल गांधी, छात्रों और चाय बागान के श्रमिकों से मिलेंगे Assembly Elections 2021 Live updates West bengal tamil nadu kerala Assam Puducherry

पांच राज्यों पश्चिम बंगाल (West Bengal), तमिलनाडु (Tamil Nadu), केरल (Kerala), असम (Assam) और पुडुचेरी (Puducherry) में चुनाव (Assembly Elections 2021) जैसे-जैसे नजदीक आते जा रहे हैं और पार्टियों ने अपने अधिकांश उम्मीदवारों की लिस्ट की घोष��ा कर दी है। अब साफ होने लगा है कि आखिरकार सत्ता के लिए होने वाला सियासी द्वंद्व कैसा होने वाला है। वहीं प्रचार के लिए शुक्रवार को कांग्रेस नेता राहुल गांधी…

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PoliticsStatistical Afternotes: TMC May Have Won Bengal, but BJP Did Not Do BadlyAlthough TMC has been able to script a resounding victory in Bengal, looking at the finer statistical details shows how BJP's vote share has jumped from an indifferent 10% to 38% in the space of a single election.2 hours ago | Prashant Iyengar The West Bengal assembly election has been cynosure of all eyes with BJP raising the stakes. Illustration: The Wire/PTI.

As the din and drama of election season begin to wind down, there are a few points to ponder that statistics from the West Bengal elections bring into view. Statistics, of course, vastly deplete the sensory richness of an event like an election.

Catcalls like ‘Didi O Didi’ and bellows of ‘Jai Shri Ram’, backstabbings and paybacks, the true stuff of elections are statistically ‘mute’ phenomena. Fortunately, we have, by now, several extremely penetrating accounts that have interpreted the West Bengal electoral outcome for us in terms of its discourse and dramaturgy. To this corpus of opinion pieces, which tells us the real story, let me add a few statistically-founded afternotes.

The BJP did not do ‘badly’…

We begin with the obvious. How we assess the BJP’s performance in these elections depends, of course, largely on where we set our expectations. Compared to the men, the muscle, the money and, allegedly, even the Election Commission that the BJP poured into their Bengal campaign, and especially measured against their campaign boasts, 77 seats must seem like a poor return indeed.

Union Home Minister and BJP leader Amit Shah during an election campaign rally in support of party candidates for the West Bengal Assembly Polls at Buniadpur in South Dinajpur district, Thursday, April 22, 2021.

However, this is still a party that grew from three seats and an indifferent 10% vote share to a staggering 77 seats and 38% vote share in the space of a single election. These advances have been fairly well-reckoned with in the commentary that has followed the election.

Also read: West Bengal: Of 19 Turncoat MLAs Contesting From BJP, 13 Lost

But let me add another telling statistic to this picture – among the 291 constituencies that the BJP contested, it won 77, and came second in 200, and finished third in 14 constituencies. That is, it was never ranked lower than third in a single constituency that it contested. This ought to convey a sense, not fully captured in this round’s tally of seats, of the inflationary presence that the party has acquired across the state within a short span of time.

But it could easily have done a lot worse

Notwithstanding the party’s impressive turnout, the BJP will feel fortunate to have ended with the tally that it did. While Mamata Banerjee’s narrow loss at Nandigram has captivated media attention, there were at least 20 constituencies where the BJP won against TMC candidates with extremely slender margins between 500-5000 votes, and where a single third party like the Left Front, Congress or Independent also polled a substantial number of votes.

Illustratively in Balarampur, the incumbent TMC candidate lost to the BJP by a margin of 423 votes. The Congress candidate in this constituency polled over 8,000 votes – votes that, the TMC might legitimately feel, cost them the seat. Ironically, this means that the BJP owes 20 of its seats to the presence of its most bitter opponents, the Left and the Congress.

To be sure, the TMC also had its share of close shaves – 12 seats where their margin of victory was less than 5,000 votes, and where a third-placed party/candidate polled enough votes to play spoiler.

For instance, in Tamluk where the TMC candidate beat the BJP candidate by a margin of 793 votes, and the CPI(M) candidate polled over 14,000 votes. Could the BJP have won here, had the CPI(M) not contested?

It depends on whether you think it likely that more than half of these 14,000 CPI(M) voters might have voted BJP. This seems improbable. Speculations of this kind are only worth so much, but with the polarising campaigns that the BJP runs, votes cast for any other party in the fray are quite likely to be affirmative votes against the BJP. Consequently, in these seats that the BJP lost narrowly, one gets the impression that the absence of a third party would only have extended the magnitude of their loss.

Also read: ‘Didi, Oh Didi’: How BJP Crafted Its Own Humiliation in Bengal

Does this mean that the CPI(M) and the Congress ought to have either vacated the field or swallowed their pride and stitched together an alliance with the TMC, their most bitter rival in the state? There is a vital difference between merely mathematical possibilities, such as the kinds I have outlined above, and the intricate real world of political negotiation that must be borne in mind before making any such assessments.

For a string of state elections now, though, Congress’s electoral strategy appears to have been organised around the question of how to ally themselves so that they cause the least possible damage to regionally competitive parties. This is prudent, and answers the call of the times, but cannot but enfeeble the party in the long run and nationwide. Curiously, one senses the exasperation of their position most acutely in Prashant Kishor’s barbs directed at Rahul Gandhi.

A polity that de-fragments itself

One striking feature of this election was the consistency with which this remained a two-way fight between the BJP and the TMC despite the presence of other influential parties (Congress/Left), independents and NOTA (the most underrated political force in this country).

As is well known, an important weapon in the NDA/BJP election arsenal has been the splintering of the opposition vote. The innovations of ‘Mahagathbandhans’ in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar are attempts to counter this, although they have only succeeded to a degree.

In last year’s Bihar elections, for example, Independents, ‘Other Parties’ and NOTA absorbed a staggering 20% of all votes cast. The Mahagathbandhan there lost over 25 seats in close contests (

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Amit Shah का राहुल गांधी पर पलटवार, बताया- BJP के DNA का मतलब डेवलपमेंट, नेशनलिज्म और आत्मनिर्भर

Amit Shah का राहुल गांधी पर पलटवार, बताया- BJP के DNA का मतलब डेवलपमेंट, नेशनलिज्म और आत्मनिर्भर

कोलकाता: पश्चिम बंगाल में जारी विधान सभा चुनाव (West Bengal Assembly Election) के छठे चरण के चुनाव के लिए सभी पार्टियों ने प्रचार शुरू कर दिया है. केंद्रीय गृह मंत्री अमित शाह (Amit Shah) ने शुक्रवार को नदिया जिले के तेहत्ता में चुनावी सभा को संबोधित किया और सत्तारूढ़ तृणमूल क��ंग्रेस के अलावा वाम दल और कांग्रेस पर जमकर निशाना साधा. ‘2 मई को सोनार बांग्ला के नए युग में होगा प्रवेश’ जनसभा को…

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The 2021 history, of the Congress Party was full of unforgettable tragedies....!

The 2021 history, of the Congress Party was full of unforgettable tragedies….!

The 2021 history of the Congress Party was full of unforgettable tragedies. Elections to the Kerala State Assembly were held in early 2021, electing senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi as MP. The Congress party lost this election. In the West Bengal assembly elections, the Congress formed an alliance with the arch-rival Left in Kerala. But the Congress party did not get a single seat. At the…

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Opp to back Bill giving States,UTs power to make OBC list

Decision was taken in meet held by 15 Opp leaders in Parl

The Opposition on Monday said it will extend its support to the Constitution amendment bill which seeks to give power to States and UTs to make their own OBC lists.

The decision by the Opposition, which has been consistently protesting in Parliament over a range of issues ever since Monsoon Session,  was taken at a crucial meeting of 15 Opposition leaders, including Congress, TMC, RJD, DMK, Shiv Sena, SP and others before the day’s proceedings started.

The meeting happened at the chamber of Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi too came to Parliament for the first time in the ensuing Monsoon Session to express her full support and solidarity to the unity of Opposition to take on Modi Government in the next Lok Sabha polls.

“The Government is going to introduce the constitutional amendment bill in Parliament. We all leaders of various parties will support this bill, and we want this bill being introduced today (Monday) to be passed immediately after a discussion on it,” Kharge said in his address to the media after the meeting.

“We will peacefully support this bill. This issue is in the interest of backward classes and the country,” Kharge said.

RJD Rajya Sabha member Manoj Jha said that this has been a big issue, and added that the Opposition would support the Centre on it. “And we will also push for caste-based census,” he said.

The Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Seventh Amendment) Bill, 2021, which was introduced in the Lok Sabha, is significant to parties, including the ruling BJP which faces an Assembly elections early next year in Uttar Pradesh. The Bill aims to clarify provisions in the 102nd Constitutional Amendment Bill to restore the power of States to have their own lists of backward classes after identifying them.

The leaders met at the Parliament complex to formulate a common strategy on this as well as issues like the Pegasus snooping controversy and farmers’ concerns as the Monsoon Session of Parliament entered its final week. This comes a day after the Opposition leaders released a video expressing their anguish over the Modi Government’s reluctance to discuss the issues being raised by them since July 19 when the Monsoon Session started. The scheduled ending is on Friday.

Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi was among those who attended the meeting held at the chamber of Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge. Besides the Congress, leaders of the DMK, TMC, NCP, Shiv Sena, SP, CPM, RJD, AAP, CPI, NC, IUML, LJD, RSP, and the KC(M) were present.

In a related development, former Haryana Chief Minister & INLD chief Om Prakash Chautala met with former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda and Samajwadi Party patron Mulayam Singh Yadav and discussed the formation of the third front. Last week RJD patriarch Lalu Prasad Yadav had called on Mulayam Singh Yadav and NCP chief Sharad Pawar. Earlier, TMC supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had met Sonia and Rahul.

The Opposition parties have come together in seeking a discussion on the Pegasus snooping issue and the farmers’ problems. Parliament has failed to transact any significant business since it met on July 19 for the Monsoon session. Some bills, however, have been passed amid the din.

Source: https://www.dailypioneer.com/2021/pioneer-exclusive/opp-to-back-bill-giving-states-uts-power-to-make-obc-list.html

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बंगाल चुनाव में पहली बार राहुल की एंट्री: कांग्रेस सांसद ने कहा- हमारे प्रधानमंत्री थाली बजाकर कोरोना भगा रहे हैं, ममता कहती हैं खेला होबे; क्या ड्रामा चल रहा है

बंगाल चुनाव में पहली बार राहुल की एंट्री: कांग्रेस सांसद ने कहा- हमारे प्रधानमंत्री थाली बजाकर कोरोना भगा रहे हैं, ममता कहती हैं खेला होबे; क्या ड्रामा चल रहा है

Hindi News National Rahul Gandhi West Bengal Election Rally Update; Congress Leader Attacks On Narendra Modi And Mamata Banerjee Ads से है परेशान? बिना Ads खबरों के लिए इनस्टॉल करें दैनिक भास्कर ऐप नक्सलबाड़ीएक घंटा पहले कॉपी लिंक राहुल बुधवार को उत्‍तर दिनाजप� पश्चिम बंगाल विधानसभा चुनाव में 4 फेज की 135 सीटों पर वोटिंग के बाद राहुल गांधी की एंट्री हो चुकी है। राहुल बुधवार को उत्‍तर दिनाजपुर…

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TMC govt did nothing for migrant workers, Congress will ensure direct cash transfer if elected : Adhir Chowdhury

KOLKATA: Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Adhir Chowdhury on Wednesday said the party will ensure direct cash transfer to every poor in the state if elected to power. The Congress leader slammed the TMC government in West Bengal for not doing anything for migrant workers who returned to the state during the lockdown. Chowdhury said the Congress had mooted the proposal of direct cash transfer to the migrant labourers with the objective to ensure that the poor have enough liquid cash in the lockdown and post lockdown situation and the Centre had announced a Rs 50,000 crore project for them. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had advocated giving liquid cash to every poor person in the country as the party’s poll promise before the 2019 Lok Sabha poll, he said. “It was not empty promise. In Chhatisgarh we have already channelised over Rs 5,700 to the pocket of every poor person. We will ensure it is implemented in West Bengal too if we are elected to power in the 2021 state election,” the Congress leader said. He said it was due to the West Bengal government’s attitude that the migrant labourers from Bengal are yet to get the benefits of the central project as the state did not send the required list of districts having 25,000 migrant labourers. Expressing doubts whether chief minister Mamata Banerjee was “at all concerned” about the plight of migrant workers who left the state after the lockdown, he said in a video mesage, “Didi (Banerjee) at least spare a thought for them. After suffering such grave financial distress during the lockdown and return to their home state, they had to leave again as they found little employment opportunities here”. Pointing out that migrant workers contribute to the state’s economy by sending money to their families, Chowdhury, who is also the WBPCC president, said “But you (Banerjee) have no time to think about them.” He said, “The migrant labourers from the state are deprived of the central package as you have not sent the names of districts having 25,000 migrant labour population, which is a criteria for getting the fund.” “While many other states like Chhatisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh have been able to avail the fund for their migrant workers by compiling the required list and sending it to the Centre, West Bengal played traunt … The Mamata Banerjee government does not seem to have any plan for its own people,” he said. Comparing the TMC government’s announcement of several social welfare campaigns before the assembly poll to the end of season ‘Chaitra sale’ (discount offers by shopkeepers in Bengal in the Hindu month of Chaitra to attract customers before Bengali New Year), the Congress MP said “Suddenly Didi has woken up to people’s issues after ten years in power”. “With the elections round the corner she (Banerjee) is announcing one project after another. From ‘Didi ke bolo’ (Tell Didi), to ‘Duare Sarkar’ (government at the doorstep) to ‘Paray Paray Samadhan’ (solution to local problems). “You (Banerjee) talk about Swasthya Sathi. Do you have belief in state health schemes? Otherwise why do your near ones go abroad for treatment?” he said. Chowdhury alleged that West Bengal government is also not bothered about the increase in the prices of essential commodities. The Congress leader demanded that members of Kurmi community living in Purulia be given ST status. “Once I had raised the issue in Parliament and took up the matter with the Centre. I was told that the Centre will do its bit after the government adopts a resolution in the assembly for granting ST status to the Kurmi community. So please do the needful,” he added.

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India’s Opposition Widens Attack on Citizenship Law

India’s main opposition Congress Party marked its 135th foundation day on Saturday with a call for nationwide protests against a controversial citizenship law that has divided the country.

December 28, 2019

Rahul Gandhi, former President of Indian National Congress gestures as he speaks during a rally against India's new citizenship law in Guwahati on December 28.

— Congress leader Rahul Gandhi calls for nationwide protests to ‘halt BJP hatred’

NEW DELHI: India’s main opposition Congress Party marked its 135th foundation day on Saturday with a call for nationwide protests against a controversial citizenship law that has divided the country.

Former party President Rahul Gandhi led the campaign in the northeastern state of Assam, where ethnic Assamese have claimed the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) will make them a minority in their own state.

The act fast-tracks citizenship for persecuted Hindus, Parsis, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Christians who arrived in India before the end of 2014 from Muslim-majority Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan.

But critics say the law is discriminatory and goes against the secular spirit of India’s constitution.

“Wherever the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) rules, it spreads hatred,” Gandhi told supporters in Guwahati, Assam’s biggest city.

“The Congress Party will not allow the divisive designs of the Hindu right-wing forces to succeed and will oppose this attempt to divide society,” said Gandhi, who is the son of the party’s president Sonia Gandhi.

In northern India, his sister Priyanka Gandhi launched the party’s campaign in Lucknow, capital of the country’s biggest state Uttar Pradesh.

She condemned local BJP workers for targeting thousands of social activists who came out to protest against the CAA and criticized police “high-handedness” in dealing with protesters, particularly Muslims.

At least 18 people are believed to have died after police opened fire on demonstrators. CCTV footage also shows senior police officials abusing protesters.

Police have denied any wrongdoing.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday justified his government’s crackdown, saying that the action has “shocked” every protester into silence.

“Every rioter is shocked. Every troublemaker is shocked,” he said.

However, Priyanka Gandhi claimed “the BJP has poisoned government officials so much that they have forgotten their constitutional duty,”

“Today the country is in trouble. If we do not raise our voice, we will prove to be cowards,” she added.

BJP President and India’s Home Minister Amit Shah blamed the opposition Congress for “spreading rumors” about the CAA. “The Congress and company are spreading rumors that Muslims are going to lose their citizenship,” he said.

“I challenge Rahul Gandhi to show me if there is even a single line in the act regarding the withdrawal of anyone’s citizenship. Don’t misguide and divide people over the CAA.”

Meanwhile, protests continued in cities including Mumbai, Kolkata and Bangalore.

In New Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh area, more than 200 women have held a sit-in protest for the past two weeks over what they call an “indiscriminate citizenship act.” The demonstration forced authorities to close an adjoining national highway.

“We have been sitting here with our children day and night, and we will not move until the government withdraws the CAA,” said Fatima Begum, a housewife.

Sana Fatima, a student, said that “the BJP regime has acted indiscriminately from day one. The CAA and proposed National Register of Citizens are meant to target Muslim community. For us this is an existential crisis.”

Political analysts say that the CAA and national register are aimed at identifying those who pose a serious danger to the “religious amity of the nation.”

However, the act also has the potential to destroy the religious peace that has existed in India since independence, Subhajit Naskar, an assistant professor of international relations at West Bengal Jadavpur University, said.

He told Arab News that the BJP wants to capture Bengal in the 2021 assembly elections, and the CAA and NRC are being implemented to deprive many Muslims of their citizenship.

“This will polarize West Bengal, which has a sizeable Muslim population,” Naskar added.

“The nationwide outrage proves that secular values in India are still vibrant and alive. The fact that Hindu leaders are using mosques to express solidarity with Muslims indicates that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is facing the biggest resistance of his political career,” he said.

— Arab News

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With an eye on 2024 Lok Sabha elections, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday discussed "the unity of Opposition" with Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi and said it is essential for everyone to come together in order to defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Banerjee, who is in the National Capital for the first time since her victory in the West Bengal Assembly elections, termed the meeting as "very good" and expressed hope that positive results will come in the near future.

The political situation in the country, alleged Pegasus snooping row and COVID-19 situation were among other issues discussed during the meeting. "Sonia ji invited me for tea, Rahul ji was also there. We discussed the political situation in general, the Pegasus, COVID situation, and also discussed the unity of Opposition. It was a very good meeting. I think the positive result must come out in the future," Banerjee told reporters here after the meeting.

"It is essential for everyone to come together in order to defeat BJP... Alone, I am nothing - everyone will have to work together. I am not a leader, I am a cadre. I am a person from the street," she added.

She further questioned the government on Pegasus issue. "Why is the government not replying to Pegasus? People want to know. If policy decisions are not made in Parliament, if discussions are not held there, where will it take place? This is not done at tea stalls, this is done in the Parliament." The Trinamool Congress chief on Wednesday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress leaders Anand Sharma and Kamal Nath.

Earlier on Wednesday, Banerjee express ambivalence about being the face of the Opposition to take on the BJP, saying it will depend on the situation.

"I am not a political astrologer. It depends on the situation, structure. I have no problem if someone else leads. When the matter is discussed we can decide. I cannot impose," Banerjee told a select group of reporters here when asked if she would be the face of the Opposition.

On the Pegasus row, she said the situation was more serious than Emergency and accused the Centre of being unresponsive. "Everywhere they are sending ED, IT for raids. Here there is no response. In a democracy, the government has to respond. The situation is very serious, it's more serious than the Emergency," the Trinamool Congress chief claimed

"I am a simple worker and want to continue as a worker," Banerjee, who is in the national capital for the first time after her party's resounding victory in the Assembly polls, said on Wednesday.

"I want to see sachcha din, bahut din acha di dekh liya," Banerjee added, in a jibe at the BJP''s poll slogan

On Tuesday, Banerjee had said the unity of Opposition parties will take shape on its own.

Banerjee's visit during the ongoing Parliament's Monsoon Session holds significance as the Opposition is cornering the BJP-led NDA government on a range of issues including price rise, increasing cost of diesel and petrol, and issues related to tackling the COVID-19 pandemic.

With inputs from agencies

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Lok Sabha 2019: Meet the movers and shapers of Indian politics - Nation Information

http://tinyurl.com/y35yu9l4 On a December morning in 2016, Dimple Yadav, Lok Sabha MP from the Samajwadi Social gathering (SP) and spouse of former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, obtained a name from Aditi Singh, the Congress MLA from Rae Bareli. Singh had a particular request for her good friend Dimple, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra needed to satisfy her. Dimple fortunately agreed and later launched Priyanka to not solely Akhilesh however SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav. A month later, the SP and the Congress introduced their alliance for the 2017 meeting election, a deal that fructified primarily via the efforts of Priyanka and Dimple. Lower to the 2019 Lok Sabha election. Whereas the SP has tied up with the Bahujan Samaj Social gathering (BSP), formally discarding the Congress, Dimple and Priyanka, now the Congress normal secretary accountable for jap UP, met once more in Lucknow earlier this month. The 2 are working to strategically place their contests to minimise electoral injury to their respective events. With the Lok Sabha election simply a few months away, there’s not a uninteresting day for the movers and shapers of Indian politics, as they work extra time to formulate methods, gauge the general public temper, fill of their central management with important information and knowledge and fine-tune the battle plan for the do-or-die seats. They could possibly be essentially the most seen faces of their events or staunch loyalists or reclusive backroom operators. However what all of them have in frequent is the power to interrupt logjams and attain out to leaders throughout events, stroll the additional mile to strike a tough cut price. They’ve the braveness to take unconventional paths and have confirmed observe information of delivering. Within the BJP, Union HRD minister Prakash Javadekar is one such workhorse. Whereas get together president Amit Shah, Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray have been the faces of the renewed alliance between the 2 events, it was Javadekar who labored behind the scenes to sweeten the deal for the estranged allies. He was appointed the BJP’s negotiator with the Shiv Sena as a result of he had expertise of coping with Sena leaders, from his days as late BJP chief Pramod Mahajan’s right-hand man. In the middle of two months, Javadekar held 5 conferences with Thackeray and Subhash Desai, a senior Sena minister in Maharashtra, earlier than Fadnavis joined the negotiations. To keep away from media consideration, Javadekar travelled to Thackeray’s Mumbai house, Matoshree, in a personal car. One among Thackeray’s predominant grudges had been that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Shah had been out of bounds. With the Sena brass reluctant to take care of the BJP on the state management stage alone, Fadnavis had satisfied Shah to pay Thackeray a private go to at his Mumbai house in June final 12 months. Shah acquired a way that Thackeray most well-liked a dialogue with a senior BJP chief and never the 48-year-old Fadnavis and put Javadekar on the job. Javadekar retains a low profile. His easygoing method and previous equation helped nurse bruised egos, says a BJP chief. Javadekar’s greater problem, although, is to maximise the BJP’s beneficial properties in Karnataka, the place it didn’t type the federal government final 12 months regardless of rising as the one largest get together. The BJP want to see the Congress-Janata Dal (Secular) pre-poll alliance falter because it threatens to cut back the BJP’s 2014 Lok Sabha tally of 17. Because the get together’s ballot in-charge in Karnataka, Javadekar’s problem might be to earn the arrogance of JD(S) patriarch H.D. Deve Gowda and chief minister H.D. Kumaraswamy. The BJP, although, has made some invisible breaches down south. The get together’s nationwide secretary Ram Madhav has opened channels with YSR Congress (YSRC) chief Jaganmohan Reddy in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief Okay. Chandrashekar Rao in Telangana. The BJP is a marginal participant in each states. By way of Reddy and Rao have categorically stated no to any pre-poll alliance, the BJP is believed to be pursuing them for assurances of assist within the occasion it falls wanting a majority after the Lok Sabha election. A few circumstantial developments helped the BJP. Election strategist Prashant Kishor, who performed a key position in Narendra Modi’s Lok Sabha election technique in 2014 and later parted methods, has joined the get together’s ally Janata Dal (United) because the de facto no. 2. Kishor’s organisation I-PAC, or the Indian Political Motion Committee, has been getting ready the YSRC’s election technique for the previous three years and he was not too long ago roped in by the Shiv Sena too. It’s believed Kishor’s assembly with Thackeray on February 5 supplied a much-needed increase to the BJP-Sena alliance. Thackeray’s son Aditya organized the assembly and Kishor defined to the father-son duo how the arithmetic labored in favour of the alliance. The shaper of the BJP’s pre-poll alliance with the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) in Tamil Nadu is Union minister for railways Piyush Goyal. Because the get together’s ballot in-charge within the state, Goyal began out with just a few handicaps. He didn’t have any previous equation with the AIADMK leaders. Language was one other barrier, however the Tamil-speaking Union minister of state for finance Pon Radhakrishnan helped Goyal out. Collectively, they impressed upon Tamil Nadu chief minister E.Okay. Palaniswami and his deputy O. Panneerselvam that to return to energy in Tamil Nadu in 2021, the AIADMK would do effectively to have the backing of the central authorities by way of budgetary assist for sops. Furthermore, with the Congress-DMK (Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam) alliance going robust, there could be no place for the AIADMK in a Congress-led authorities on the Centre. What provides extra worth to the deal brokered by Goyal is the addition of the Paattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) and the Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) within the mega alliance. It’s anticipated to spice up the alliance’s prospects in northern Tamil Nadu in addition to the western and southern districts. The PMK was earlier toying with the concept of becoming a member of the Congress-DMK coalition. Nonetheless, the BJP has a number of worries within the essential state of UP (80 Lok Sabha seats) and in West Bengal (42 seats). In UP, the SP-BSP alliance threatens to considerably cut back the BJP’s 2014 Lok Sabha tally of 71 seats. The BJP’s key man right here is organisation secretary Sunil Bansal, who’s busy mapping every constituency to select winnable candidates towards the rising Opposition forcesthe SP-BSP alliance, which is able to goal backward and Dalit votes and the Congress, which can dent the BJP’s higher caste vote share. Again channel negotiations are additionally onUnion finance minister Arun Jaitley has been working his cellphone with BSP second-in-command Satish Mishra to influence Mayawati to stroll out of the alliance with the SP. Congress insiders declare Mayawati’s opposition to the inclusion of their get together within the SP-BSP alliance was instigated by the veiled menace of CBI investigations’ towards the BSP supremo. In West Bengal, the BJP faces challenges from two frontsthe Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Congress-CPI(M) alliance. Opposite to Shah’s goal of 23 Lok Sabha seats, inner surveys point out 8-15 seats, at finest, for the BJP. Aside from working a high-decibel marketing campaign led by Modi and Shah, the BJP has been attempting to poach robust candidates from rival events. Whereas Mukul Roy, as soon as a trusted lieutenant of Mamata Banerjee, has emerged as a key participant within the BJP’s sport plan for West Bengal, Union petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan engineered TMC MP Saumitra Khan’s switchover to the BJP in January. If the BJP’s movers and shapers are working the electoral chessboard, the Congress and different events are additionally attempting to get their permutations and mixtures proper. In Congress, Ahmed Patel is burning the midnight oil. Late into the night time, the Congress treasurer both works his cellphone or holds conferences with get together leaders at his 23, Willingdon Crescent Street residence in New Delhi. For a lot of opposition leaders, Patel is the popular level of contact in Congress. Mamata Banerjee recurrently retains in contact with Patel despite the fact that she has direct entry to Sonia Gandhi. Andhra Pradesh chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu is extra snug coping with Patel, regardless of his equation with Congress president Rahul Gandhi. Nonetheless, of late, Patel, a veteran Gandhi household loyalist, has confronted disappointment from two potential allies. Regardless of sustaining a wonderful rapport with Mayawati, he has didn’t persuade her to workforce up with the Congress in current elections. Within the December meeting election, Maya-wati declined to hitch fingers with the get together in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. Her Lok Sabha alliance with the SP in UP, too, has shut out the Congress. Mayawati believes Congress votes is not going to switch to the BSP. Patel’s different failure was in Meghalaya the place he couldn’t win over the Nationwide Folks’s Social gathering (NPP), a BJP ally. When Meghalaya chief minister and NPP chief Conrad Sangma protested towards the Centre’s try to move the Citizenship Modification Invoice, 2016, which seeks to offer citizenship to non-Muslim unlawful migrants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, Patel reached out to him. Conrad’s father P.A. Sangma, a former Congress chief, was near Patel and his sister Agatha was a part of the UPA authorities. Nonetheless, Conrad refused a pre-Lok Sabha ballot alliance with the Congress. CONRAD’S REFUSAL IS comprehensible given the agency grip of Assam finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on nearly all non-Congress events within the Northeast. Sarma, a former protégé of Patel, has continued to hang-out the Congress since 2015 when he converted to the BJP. He has been the prime pressure behind the BJP’s success in wresting six of the eight northeastern states. For Sarma, nearly all leaders throughout events within the area are a cellphone name away. If the Congress’s Takam Sanjoy in Arunachal Pradesh is a detailed good friend, Sarma is on equally good phrases with Nagaland chief minister Neiphiu Rio and Rio’s predecessor and rival T.R. Zeliang. The BJP has given Sarma the duty of profitable no less than 15 of the 25 seats within the Northeast. These 25 seats are the explanation why Patel, on Mamata’s recommendation, has been planning a rally of opposition events in Guwahati in March to draw potential allies within the area. Mamata Banerjee believes opposition events ought to maintain such rallies in numerous components of the nation to not solely create a buzz but in addition encourage confidence among the many fence-sitting events, says a senior Congress chief. Aside from Patel, the opposite Congress brainstormers are Okay. Raju, Ashok Gehlot, Randeep Singh Surjewala and Okay.C. Venugopal. Raju, a former bureaucrat from Andhra Pradesh and now in-charge of Rahul Gandhi’s workplace, retains a low profile at the same time as he offers important inputs to Rahul on a number of points. His position is commonly likened to Patel’s when he was Sonia Gandhi’s political secretary. However Raju features in a extra formal and clear means and in sync with Patel. The Raju-Patel equation nearly nullified the outdated versus new debate within the Congress, says a Congress normal secretary. It introduced in much-needed coordination throughout the get together. Patel’s shut confidant Ashok Gehlot has emerged because the chief political advisor to Rahul. Gehlot’s fairness elevated when, as normal secretary in-charge of Gujarat, he helped the Congress give a troublesome struggle to the BJP on Modi and Shah’s house turf. In Karnataka, the place the BJP emerged as the one largest get together, Gehlot performed a key position in convincing outgoing chief minister Siddaramaiah to conform to the Congress proposal of giving the chief ministerial place to junior associate JD(S). On the similar time, Patel’s protégé in Karnataka, D.Okay. Shivakumar, has ensured that the BJP is unable to poach Congress MLAs. Shivakumar has been tasked with maintaining a tally of disgruntled legislators being wooed by the BJP. In February, when the BJP launched Operation Lotus’, he was fast to make sure that all of the Congress legislators, barring 4 rebels, had been current in the identical resort. Later, he satisfied even the rebels to return to the get together fold. He performed an important position within the parliamentary bypolls in Karnataka final 12 months, wresting Ballari from the BJP after 14 years. He additionally ensured that Congress votes transferred to the JD(S) candidate within the Ramanagara meeting bypoll, for which the 2 events had a pre-poll alliance. Shivakumar is now assured of shaping a Congress-JD(S) alliance for the Lok Sabha contest. This alliance will work and we’ll win no less than 20-22 seats, he informed INDIA TODAY. Congress communication in-charge Surjewala’s affect within the get together could be assessed from the truth that he has typically satisfied the get together to vary tack on necessary points. Inside hours of the suicide bomb assault on a CRPF convoy in Pulwama on February 14, Surjewala had questioned the Modi authorities’s safety set-up in Kashmir. The subsequent day, prodded by senior leaders, Rahul modified the get together’s place and declared that it could stand by the federal government on no matter motion it takes towards the assault. However, in lower than every week, Surjewala satisfied Rahul to nook the Modi authorities on safety lapses in Kashmir. When the federal government introduced the air strike on terror camps in Pakistan within the pre-dawn hours of February 26, each Rahul and Surjewala despatched out tweets saluting the pilots. One chief whose affect in Congress has grown dramatically of late is Okay.C. Venugopal, a Lok Sabha MP from Kerala. Venugopal has not solely been inducted into the get together’s highest physique, the Congress Working Committee but in addition been made normal secretary in-charge of the organisation, a publish until not too long ago held by Gehlot. Many leaders attribute this sudden rise to his strategic location’within the Lok Sabha, his seat is subsequent to Rahul’s and in Delhi, his official house is subsequent to Priyanka’s. Such aspersions aside, he performed a significant position within the Congress-JD(S) authorities formation in Karnataka, because of his private chemistry with Deve Gowda and Kumaraswamy. That is thought of to have helped hold the alliance intact regardless of Kumaraswamy’s periodic outbursts and the BJP’s alleged makes an attempt to engineer defections amongst Congress MLAs. Curiously, Venugopal, who changed Digvijaya Singh as Congress normal secretary in-charge of Karnataka, was the AICC observer for Goa in 2017. Digvijaya was normal secretary in-charge of Goa at the moment and the 2 leaders had didn’t instal a Congress authorities within the state regardless of the get together profitable the biggest variety of seats. Now, within the run-up to the Lok Sabha election, Venugopal is coordinating between Nationalist Congress Social gathering (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar and the Congress’s Maharashtra chief Ashok Chavan. Although the Congress-NCP pre-poll tie-up in Maharashtra has been finalised, variations have been rising over seat-sharing and choice of candidates. What has made Venugopal’s job straightforward is that Pawar shares a heat relationship with Rahul? The ice-breaker, although, was Chavan’s initiative to shed previous hostilities and want Pawar on his 77th birthday on December 12 final 12 months. Given full freedom to function, Somen Mitra, chief of the Congress unit in West Bengal, has labored onerous in the direction of the get together’s proposed alliance with the Left Entrance, headed by the CPI(M). Aiding Mitra’s efforts was the truth that Rahul values the political counsel of CPI(M) chief Sitaram Yechury, even addressing him as boss’. Mitra and Congress veteran Abdul Mannan are in fixed contact with Left leaders, equivalent to Surjya Mishra and Rabin Deb, to take the alliance ahead. Deb has been attempting to get different members of the Left Frontthe CPI, Ahead Bloc and the Revolutionary Socialist Social gathering (RSP)into the alliance. The Congress has requested for 20 seats whereas the Left sees something lower than 26 for the Entrance companions as unacceptable. The friction over seat-sharing has posed the largest problem to the joint efforts of Mitra and Deb. The CPI(M) has managed to deliver the RSP and the CPI on board for seat-sharing with the Congress. Nonetheless, the Ahead Bloc remains to be not able to toe the road because the get together is eager on contesting the Purulia, Coochbehar and Barasat Lok Sabha seats, the place the Congress too desires to discipline candidates. Except both of the 2 events blinks, the proposed alliance is prone to collapse. Some Congress leaders have already raised a clamour to go it alone in West Bengal. Not like the BJP and Congress, the networkers within the regional events are sometimes constrained by bosses accustomed to exercising absolute management and micro-managing all electoral technique and communication with different events. Whereas Derek O’Brien of the TMC and Manoj Jha of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) have emerged as their respective events’ faces in conventional and social media, they largely execute the instructions of their management. They don’t have direct entry to the highest brass of different events both. As an illustration, if O’Brien has to speak with Pawar, he should undergo Praful Patel. Whether it is with the DMK’s M.Okay. Stalin, he must get in contact with Kanimozhi. Nonetheless, one exception is Sanjay Yadav of the RJD. The 35-year-old MBA from Haryana has been a detailed good friend of Tejashwi Yadav from his cricketing days in Delhi. He has now emerged because the equal of Prashant Kishor within the RJD. From mapping constituencies to giving communication tricks to Tejashwi to dealing with Lalu Prasad’s Twitter account, Sanjay performs a key position in formulating the electoral technique of the RJD. Considerably, it was he who introduced Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat’s anti-reservation quote in 2015 to Lalu’s discover and suggested the RJD boss to assault the BJP aggressively. As events gear up for the mom of all battles this summer season, their commanders are sweating it out to get the arithmetic proper. Ultimately, it is going to be as much as the citizens to guage if the mathematics provides up. PIYUSH GOYAL Union Minister for Railways THE HARD BARGAINER Present task: Ballot in-charge of Tamil Nadu Core power: The unofficial BJP treasurer, he’s the get together’s bridge between industrialists and merchants and, as Arun Jaitley’s protégé, has a hotline to Shah and Modi Deal delivered: Satisfied the AIADMK to contest solely in 22 of the 39 LS seats within the state, leaving 5 to BJP and relaxation to different NDA allies Social media quotient: 5 million followers on Twitter DEVENDRA FADNAVIS Chief Minister, Maharashtra Maratha Supervisor His grasp’s man: The blue-eyed boy of Narendra Modi, he has satisfied the prime minister to make a number of political amends, together with the choice to resume ties with the Shiv Sena Deal delivered: Labored out the nuts and bolts of the seat-sharing settlement with the Shiv Sena; persuaded BJP president Amit Shah to pay a courtesy go to to Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray at his residence in Mumbai final 12 months; as CM of Maharashtra took a number of administrative choices fulfilling the needs of Sena management Social media quotient: Has three million Twitter followers; personally writes and posts the tweets Communication quotient: Responds to all textual content messages he considers necessary PRAKASH JAVADEKAR Union Minister for Human Useful resource Improvement THE SMOOTH OPERATOR Present task: Ballot in-charge of Rajasthan and Karnataka Deal delivered: He was the important thing negotiator within the renewed alliance between the BJP and Shiv Sena; held a number of rounds of talks with Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray Social media quotient: Has 1.5 million followers on Twitter; typically responds to public grievances The survivor: In Rajasthan, the BJP was thrown out of energy. In Karnataka, regardless of rising because the single-largest get together, it didn’t type the federal government. But Javadekar escaped blame Who knew? When Modi first picked him as minister and later gave him a Cupboard rank, many had been stunned: he was a protégé of the late Pramod Mahajan who needed Modi ousted as Gujarat chief minister following the 2002 riots within the state. SUNIL BANSAL BJP Common Secretary (Organisation), Uttar Pradesh Chanakya of Lucknow Present task: To arrange a listing of profitable candidates in Uttar Pradesh; additionally work with contacts in SP and BSP to interrupt the SP and BSP alliance Core power: Absolute management over the organisation; executes plans quick Sore level: Doesn’t share a great rapport with UP CM Yogi Adityanath Social media quotient: Has 600,000 followers on Twitter; has constructed up a robust social media workforce in Uttar Pradesh prior to now two years RAM MADHAV Nationwide Common Secretary, BJP HIMANTA BISWA SARMA Cupboard Minister, Assam; Convenor, Northeast Democratic Alliance NORTHEAST MANAGERS Present task: Whereas Ram Madhav is the get together in-charge of the Northeast, Sarma is the person on floor, who stitches alliances and chalks out native technique. As NEDA convenor, Sarma has stored all non-Congress political events within the area united underneath the NDA fold regardless of the protests over the Citizenship (Modification) Invoice, 2016. Madhav is working to deliver estranged ally AGP again to the NDA with the assistance of NPP head and Meghalaya CM Conrad Sangma; the duo hopes to win 20 out of 25 seats within the Northeast for the NDA Cross-party pals: Sarma’s velocity dial checklist consists of all heads of political events lively within the Northeast; additionally some members of the CWC of the Congress Communication quotient: Madhav is accessible over cellphone to a choose few; Sarma will get calls from high leaders to grassroots staff and holds political rendezvous even at dhabas, or wherever crucial PRIYANKA GANDHI VADRA Congress Common Secretary in-charge of Uttar Pradesh East THE ALTER EGO Present task: To maximise Congress seats in UP; has already met Dimple Yadav, spouse of SP chief Akhilesh Yadav Advisor-in-chief: Is the last word sounding board for Congress president Rahul Gandhi; helped him finalise the CM names for the three states received by the Congress in December 2018; satisfied him to assault the Modi authorities over Pulwama assault Fingers-on: By way of working model, she is the precise reverse of Rahul; is spontaneous, takes instantaneous choices, doesn’t consider in processes however ensures she isn’t seen as a counterforce to Rahul Social media quotient: Has 200,000 followers on Twitter; has not tweeted but AHMED PATEL Treasurer, Congress The Troubleshooter Present task: To generate assets for the 2019 Lok Sabha ballot, hold line of communication open with possible allies; working together with West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on a number of proposed rallies of all opposition events at totally different areas within the nation Man for all seasons: He has the ear of the outdated in addition to the brand new guard within the get together. He’s the popular Congress contact of a number of get together leaders equivalent to Mamata Banerjee, Mayawati, N. Chandrababu Naidu, M.Okay. Stalin and Farooq Abdullah Man in command: He has loyal colleagues and protégés in nearly each stateKamal Nath in Madhya Pradesh, Ashok Gehlot in Rajasthan, Ashok Chavan in Maharashtra, D.Okay. Shivakumar in Karnataka Social media quotient: A reluctant newbie; he’s now lively on Twitter; has 600,000 followers. THE NEW LIEUTENANTS RANDEEP SINGH SURJEWALA Congress Communication In-charge Okay.C. VENUGOPAL Congress Common Secretary (Organisation) He decides on the get together’s public stand on key points. On Pulwama, he opted to go after the Modi authorities from the very first day despite the fact that Rahul Gandhi didn’t need to and later acquired Priyanka Gandhi on board to make Rahul change his thoughts Rahul’s new favorite; shares an amazing equation with H.D. Deve Gowda and his son and Karnataka CM H.D. Kumaraswamy; retains the Congress-JD (S) alliance working; finalised seat-sharing deal in Maharashtra with NCP; one of many key negotiators with DMK THE TRUSTED DUO Okay. RAJU Head of Rahul Gandhi’s workplace Rahul Gandhi’s gatekeeper-in-chief advises him on nearly all the things underneath the solar; his phrase is last on Dalit points; works in shut coordination with Ahmed Patel ASHOK GEHLOT Chief Minister, Rajasthan Rahul values his political recommendation. As an illustration, although Okay.C. Venugopal is Karnataka normal secretary in-charge, Gehlot’s phrases matter lots within the state, contemplating his equation with former Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah PRASHANT KISHOR Vice-president, Janata Dal (United) The Service Supplier Present task: Although a JD(U) chief, his organisation IPAC has been taking care of the election technique of Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy’s YSRC. The Shiv Sena has additionally sought his assist. Had a number of rounds of debate with Modi and Amit Shah on election technique; Kishor was one in all Modi’s key strategists within the 2014 Lok Sabha ballot Cross-party pals: Has pals in lots of events, from Priyanka Gandhi and Amarinder Singh within the Congress and Modi and Amit Shah within the BJP to Aditya Thackeray within the Shiv Sena and Lalu Yadav within the RJD Communication quotient: Accessible on WhatsApp, prefers WhatsApp calls over common ones Who knew? Kishor suggested Nitish Kumar to take again his chair from Jitan Ram Manjhi THE OUTSIDE SUPPORT Present task: Has been travelling round Bihar to grasp the region-wise, micro-level dynamics of state politics and put together the RJD for the 2019 Lok Sabha election; additionally evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of the alliance candidates Previous efficiency: Within the run-up to the Bihar meeting ballot in 2015, he dug out Mohan Bhagwat’s assertion looking for a evaluate of reservations and helped the RJD management make it a giant electoral situation; this explicit Bhagwat interview had nearly gone unnoticed Information defence: When the BJP attacked the RJD’s previous regime as jungle raj’, which at all times put the RJD males on the defensive, Sanjay dug out the GDP and crime information from 1961 to show that Lalu Prasad Yadav’s tenure was not so unhealthy SANJAY YADAV Political advisor to RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav; social and political scientist The Dutiful Spouse DIMPLE YADAV Samajwadi Social gathering MP and spouse of get together chief Akhilesh Yadav Present task: Coordinating with Congress normal secretary Priyanka Gandhi on the casual tactical understanding between Congress and SP for the 2019 Lok Sabha ballot Deal delivered: Within the 2017 meeting ballot, she satisfied Akhilesh to tie up with the Congress after Priyanka had met together with her Communication quotient: A commerce graduate, Dimple is fluent in each English and Hindi, in contrast to most SP leaders; she is among the star campaigners for the get together Cross-party pals: Has good rapport with Congress ladies leaders from UP, equivalent to Aradhana Misra, MLA from Rampur Khas, and Aditi Singh, MLA from Rae Bareli Social media quotient: Has extra that 200,000 followers on Twitter; tweets herself SATISH CHANDRA MISHRA BSP Rajya Sabha MP The Silent Social Engineer Deal delivered: He was the BSP’s chief negotiator within the SP-BSP alliance for the Lok Sabha ballot The occasion supervisor: Earlier than each public look of Mayawati, Mishra prepares the speech, takes care of the safety and finalises the leaders to be seated on the dais Cross-party pals: Has a great rapport with Arun Jaitley The Frequent Good friend RABIN DEB Central Committee Member, CPI(M) Present task: Coordinating with Congress leaders on seat-sharing between the 2 events in West Bengal Mr Wikipedia: At all times prepared with dates and occasion particulars Cross-party pals: Has many pals within the Congress, TMC and BJP Who knew? Deb may be very keen on pocket transistor radios. With Jeemon Jacob, Aravind Gowda Kiran D. Tare, Rahul Noronha, Romita Datta Ashish Misra and Amarnath Okay. Menon Source link

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West Bengal Assembly Election: Congress ने जारी की 30 स्टार प्रचारकों की लिस्ट, सोनिया-राहुल समेत इनके नाम शामिल

West Bengal Assembly Election: Congress ने जारी की 30 स्टार प्रचारकों की लिस्ट, सोनिया-राहुल समेत इनके नाम शामिल

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