MP election 2018: In Rahul Gandhi’s temple run, no place for Digvijaya Singh

Congress president Rahul Gandhi will visit all major temples in Madhya Pradesh as part of his election campaign as the party believes more than half-dozen prominent temples have influence over voters in nearly half the seats in the state.

State party president Kamal Nath and the campaign committee chief Jyotiraditya Scindia are accompanying Gandhi on all these temple visits. Former Congress chief minister Digvijaya Singh, now the party’s coordination committee chief, who has raised issues such as Hindu terrorism, has however been kept out of such engagements of Gandhi.

The Congress president has already been to three such temples – the Kamtanath temple in Chitrakoot last month and the Pitambara Peeth in Datia and Ankaleshwar temple in Gwalior on Monday. He also did a Narmada Aarti at Gwari Ghat in Jabalpur earlier this month. Gandhi’s next stops later this month, during his visit to the all-important Malwa region, are expected to be the two jyotirlingas in the state – the Mahakaleshwar temple in Ujjain and Omkareshwar Peeth in the Omkareshwar district. A party functionary said a plan was also in the works for Gandhi to visit the Ram Raja Temple and Laxmi Narayan Temple in Orchha in Niwari district at a later date.

“Rahul Gandhi also went to Moti Masjid and a gurudwara in Gwalior during his present trip,” a Congress functionary said, stressing on the “secular nature” of his trips. Gandhi also put out a picture on Instagram of his recent visits to Ankaleshwar temple, Moti Masjid and a gurudwara with the message, “The idea of India begins with acceptance that India thrives on diversity. The idea of India is in all of us. The idea that we are one people and will always be.”

Gandhi shared a picture in which he is seen wearing a skull cap at the Moti Masjid. The Congress functionary also said it was part of the Gandhi family’s tradition to visit the temples in Madhya Pradesh. “Indira Gandhi had visited the Pitambara Peeth in Datia thrice in her life and Rajiv Gandhi had visited once,” the leader said.

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Congress has lost ground in MP , says PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday attacked Congress days ahead of Madhya Pradesh assembly elections and said that the opposition has lost ground in Madhya Pradesh. Speaking to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers, Modi said, “Opposition has no issues to fight on Madhya Pradesh. Our development agendas have disappointed them that they are resorting to useless means of opposing. We have made Madhya Pradesh ‘Bemisaal Rajya’ from what people called it as ‘Beemaru Rajya’. Congress has lost ground in MP.” Assembly elections at Madhya Pradesh are due in November 28.

MP election 2018: BJP will Win , Opposition unite or not, says Kailash Vijayvargiya

The BJP is on course to winning the Madhya Pradesh assembly election, whether opposition parties contest the polls separately or form an alliance, said the party’s national general secretary and former state minister Kailash Vijayvargiya.

“Can you see any coalition happening in any of the states that are going to the polls? Congress was looking for some oxygen and that is why the party was making efforts to ally with Mayawati’s BSP. However, the coalition did not happen. With or without coalition, we will win here,” said Vijayvargiya.

“In fact, if all opposition parties come together and join hands, we will win then too. We have more than 50% of the total vote share in the state. And our support base is intact,” he said.

The BJP leader said that contrary to the claims of the opposition, farmers in the state were firmly supporting his party.

Dismissing claims of farm distress and calling the farmers’ march to Delhi a politically motivated event organised by the Congress and Left groups he said all genuine farmers were still with the BJP.

“We have been travelling to villages, speaking to farmers everywhere. There has been no farm distress as it has been projected. “All farmers, the actual ones, are still with us. The people who march to Delhi are motivated by the Congress and Left groups. These marches are politically motivated events to disturb the government at the Centre which has been working really hard for the country,” he said.

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MP : Bhagwat to address training session of RSS musical bands

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat arrived here on Saturday on a two-day visit to take part in the concluding event of the training session of the organisation’s musical bands.

An RSS functionary said Bhagwat is scheduled to address the concluding function, a closed-door event, of the 21-day training session titled Akhil Bharatiya Ghosh Prashikshan Varg.

The RSS’ bands are similar to police ones and strike up music using drums, trumpets, bugles and other instruments to accompany the organisation’s marches and drills.

The functionary said around 125 master trainers of RSS bands, drawn from different parts of the country, are participating in the session being held at Bharat Bharti Residential School run by Sangh outfit Vidhya Bharti.

The session is underway at the school located in Jamthi village, around 8 km from the district headquarters here, he said.

Bhagwat, who arrived here by train, is scheduled to leave for the Sangh headquarters in Nagpur on Sunday afternoon by road, the functionary said.

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MP Assembly polls: NCP to contest from over 200 seats

The Nationalist Congress Party will contest from over 200 seats in the forthcoming Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh, senior party functionaries said Friday.

The Nationalist Congress Party will contest from over 200 seats in the forthcoming Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh, senior party functionaries said Friday. Polls for the 230-member MP Assembly is scheduled for November 28 and counting of votes will be taken up on December 11. Senior leader and Maharashtra Legislative Council (MLC) member Rajendra Jain and the party’s Gujarat unit spokesperson Nakul Singh Friday released the NCP’s manifesto.

“We are trying to have a coalition with like-minded parties in the state. We will contest more than 200 seats out of the total 230 seats in Madhya Pradesh,” the two leaders told reporters here Friday. Referring to the party’s manifesto, Jain and Singh informed that the NCP will provide free power and water to farmers besides waiving their loans.

The party will work towards real reforms in the state’s education sector, the leaders said. The party will ensure that crimes against women decreases and would deploy “marshals” in market areas for their safety, they said.

Claiming that the people of the state were facing a difficult situation due to the 15-year BJP rule, they said that the NCP would work towards generating employment for youth. The NCP also promised to bring petrol and diesel under the GST regime to provide relief to people from skyrocketing fuel prices.

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SP rules out alliance with Congress in poll-bound MP

The Samajwadi Party (SP) on Saturday ruled out any alliance with the Congress for the upcoming Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls.

SP chief Akhilesh Yadav said they waited long to come to an understanding but the Congress had shown no willingness to join hands with like-minded parties to defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

“We have waited till now but not any longer,” the former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister told a gathering at the party headquarters here.

He added that the party will either contest the polls on its own or in an alliance with the Gondwana Party.

“The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has already declined any tie-up with the grand old party and I am sure other parties in other poll-bound states will also soon announce their candidates,” the SP President stated.

In an indirect reference to the statement of senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh that the BSP was not aligning with the Congress against the BJP in Madhya Pradesh for fear of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the CBI, Yadav said parties like the SP and BSP were not scared of anything.

He said the SP was ready to explore the possibility of a coalition with the BSP in Madhya Pradesh.

In his address, he slammed the state government and said that people had lost faith in Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and that law and order had completely collapsed in Uttar Pradesh.

The Congress and the SP contested the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls together in 2017 but the alliance did not work in their favour as the BJP stormed to power with a landslide victory.

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Amit Shah Launches BJP’s Mass Contact Campaign In Madhya Pradesh

BJP president Amit Shah today formally launched the party’s mass contact campaign in the Malwa-Nimad region of poll-bound Madhya Pradesh.

Mr Shah launched the ‘Maha Jansampark Abhiyan’ from the Rajwada area and sought support from the people for his party in the upcoming polls.

He garlanded a statue of Ahilyabai Holkar, a former queen of the kingdom of Malwa, in front of the historic Rajwada Palace of the erstwhile Holkar dynasty.

Mr Shah also offered prayers at a Mahalaxmi temple located in the vicinity.

The BJP chief launched the campaign from a famous ‘paan shop’ in Rajwada and its owner offered a ‘paan‘ to Mr Shah.

Standing on the foot-board of his vehicle, Mr Shah greeted the people gathered in the area and then travelled from Rajwada Palace to Krishnapura Chhatri, covering a distance of about half-a-kilometer.

Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, who is the BJP MP from Indore, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and other senior party leaders accompanied Mr Shah.

The mass contact programme will cover the Malwa-Nimar region of western Madhya Pradesh, an area considered a BJP bastion.

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Election dates for Rajasthan, MP, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram and Telangana out, results on Dec 11

HIGHLIGHTS

Chhattisgarh will go to polls in two phases on November 12 and November 20
Telangana and Rajasthan will go to polls together on December 7
MP and Mizoram will go to polls together on November 28

The Election Commission of India today announced election dates for assembly elections in five states – Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram and Telangana.

Chief Election Commissioner, OP Rawat, announced the election dates for the five states.

Election in Chhattisgarh will take place in two phases. Election in phase one (18 seats) will take on November 12. For the second phase (72 seats) voting will be held on November 20.

For Madhya Pradesh and Mizoram voting will be held in a single phase on November 28.

For Rajasthan and Telangana voting will be held in a single phase on December 7.

Results for all the five states will be out on December 11.

These five assembly elections would be crucial for the BJP as it gears up for the Lok Sabha election next year. The BJP is in power in three of these states — Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. While the Congress is in power in Mizoram, Telangana Rashtra Samithi was in power in Telangana before the assembly was dissolved.

The election code of conduct comes into play with immediate effect in these states.

Here is the complete schedule for assembly elections in the five states:

CHHATTISGARH

Elections will be held in two phases. Phase one includes the left-wing extremism-affected areas with 18 seats and phase two includes 72 seats.

Phase 1

Last date of filing nomination – October 23

Date of scrutiny – October 24

Last date for withdrawal of candidature – October 26

Date of voting – November 12

Counting date – December 11

Phase 2

Last date of filing nomination – November 2

Date of scrutiny – November 3

Last date for withdrawal of candidature – November 5

Date of voting – November 20

Counting date – December 11

MADHYA PRADESH and MIZORAM

Election schedule in Madhya Pradesh (230 seats) and Mizoram (40 seats) will be the same. Elections will be held in a single phase in both states.

Last date of filing nomination – November 9

Date of scrutiny – November 12

Last date for withdrawal of candidature – November 14

Date of voting – November 28

Counting date – December 11

TELANGANA and RAJASTHAN

Telangana and Rajasthan will go to polls together. Elections will be held in a single phase in both states.

Last date of filing nomination – November 19

Date of scrutiny – November 20

Last date for withdrawal of candidature – November 22

Date of voting – December 7

Counting date – December 11

Assembly Election Rallies Live Updates: PM Modi In Rajasthan, Rahul Gandhi To Address Rally In Madhya Pradesh

With the Election Commission expected to announce the dates for Assembly Elections in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh among other dates, political parties are sending their star campaigners to these states to better their chances in the upcoming elections. While Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a rally in Rajasthan today, his political rival Rahul Gandhi will visit Madhya Pradesh.

BJP chief Amit Shah will also head to Madhya Pradesh, where he is expected to make multiple visits over the next few days to meet party workers, respective spokespersons of the two parties said. The Congress chief will arrive in Morena via Gwalior to take part in Ekta Parishad conclave, a party spokesperson said. He will proceed to Jabalpur on the same day where he will perform’ Narmada Puja’ at Gwari Ghat and later hold a roadshow.

Amit Shah will visit Indore today where he will meet party workers from Indore and Ujjain regions, a BJP spokesperson said. He will visit Gwalior on October 9 to meet party workers.

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi is in Madhya Pradesh for a day-long visit to the poll-bound state. Here, posters can be seen in Jabalpur where Rahul Gandhi will perform a Narmada Puja at Gwari Ghat today. He will also address a public gathering in Jabalpur. This is Rahul Gandhi’s third visit to Madhya Pradesh in less than 20 days.

With an eye on assembly polls due later this year, BJP president Amit Shah in Indore will formally launch the party’s mass contact campaign in the crurcial Malwa-Nimad region of Madhya Pradesh to woo voters especially traders, tribals and farmers. Amit Shah will launch the ‘Maha Jansampark Abhiyan’ from historic Rajwada area and walk for nearly 15 minutes up to Krishnapura Chhatri area to appeal people in the dense commercial area to vote for the BJP.

The Congress had won the Ajmer Lok Sabha seat by defeating BJP’s Ramswaroop Lamba who is the son of former Ajmer MP Sanwar Lal Jat in the bypolls held earlier in 2018. The seat went to bypoll after the then sitting MP Sanwar Lal Jat died due to cardiac arrest last year.

Poll-bound Rajasthan’s Ajmer district has eight assembly constituencies and seven of them are represented by BJP MLAs while the Congress has one seat of Nasirabad. The BJP, which had lost the Ajmer Lok Sabha constituency to Congress in bypolls held earlier this year, is trying to build a favourable atmosphere and mood among the voters by holding the rally of PM Modi, who had addressed an election rally in Ajmer in 2013 also.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a rally in Ajmer in Rajasthan today, marking the conclusion of Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje’s state-wide ‘Rajasthan Gaurav Yatra’ which she had begun from Rajsamand’s Charbhujanath temple.

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