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Early Congress post-mortem impressions of UP debacle

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Many believe that the responsibility for the Congress debacle in UP should jointly be shouldered by party vice-president Rahul Gandhi (left) and Prashant Kishor, the campaign strategist

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]BSP held responsible for BJP victory in the state assembly election

By Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr

Call it loss or deadening of sensation. Congress seems not to feel the electoral defeat in Uttar Pradesh. It is acknowledged that Congress did not make it, and that there is need for internal assessment to address the party’s problems. But there is no sense of despair. Congress’ Member of Parliament from Uttar Pradesh, PL Punia, said in an informal chat with media-persons, “Congress will return to power in 2019 and Rahul Gandhi will be the prime minister.” It seemed the kind of statement that would invite nothing but derision from a cynical media. But Mr Punia was serious. It was a straightforward statement.

Coming back to UP election, the argument that is doing the rounds at least in a section of Congress men and women is Mayawati of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) could not hold her flock of Dalit voters, and many of them have voted for the BJP. It conceded that it is mostly the non-Jatav votes that went to the BJP, and, perhaps, some of the Jatav votes as well. Overall, Mayawati has managed to hold the votes of the Jatavs. It is also said that by giving 100 assembly tickets to Muslim candidates she had triggered polarisation. According to Congress sources non-local RSS workers were around in every constituency and they carried the whisper campaign that if the BSP candidate is not defeated, then Muslims would carry the day. The implication seems to be that by giving so many seats to Muslims, she has indirectly helped the BJP to capitalise on the religious divide. It is also suggested by the Congress source that the habitual non-Dalit BSP voter too switched sides and voted for the BJP along with the non-Jatav.

The inference is that the BJP has picked up all those BSP seats because the party had gathered about 20 per cent of BSP vote, and when it was added to BJP’s own share of the vote, it became a big margin. The argument is that there was no wave in favour of the BJP, but that it just managed to gather those extra votes, quite a chunk of them, and it has had an incremental impact, which turned out to be crucial. Of course, the Congress source is not willing to concede whether the same thing happened with the Samajwadi Party and the Congress.

There is also the rationalisation that the Congress’ tally of seven seats in the present Assembly is commensurate with the number of seats that the party had contested this time around, that is, 100. The party had 28 Members of the Legislative Assembly when it had contested all the 400 seats in the 2012 Assembly election.

The Congress is not worried or shocked by the choice of Yogi Adityanath as the chief minister. The Congress source made it clear that Adityanath was not really Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pick , hinting that the Rashtriya Swayasevak Sangh (RSS)had played a role in catapulting Adityanath into the chief minister’s office. The Congress seems to hope that Adityanath, the party and Modi have made such exaggerated promises to the people which they cannot fulfil, and therefore they would be knocked down both in the 2019 Lok Sabha election as well as in 2022, the next assembly election in UP.

The most intriguing part is the view of Congress campaign wizard Prashant Kishore. It is being said that he gave a detailed campaign strategy for each constituency, marking out the number of people to be assigned social media work, the exact number who would arrange the meetings. This gave the impression that the Congress was seriously going to fight in each one of 400 odd seats. And the party cadres were enthused. But the man who laid out the strategy with such attention to minutae went and negotiated the alliance with the Samajwadi Party (SP), forcing the party to contest only 100 seats and pouring cold water on the energised cadres in each of the constituencies. A sharp inconsistency is seen in Kishore’s approach, where he could not make up his mind whether Congress should go alone or forge an alliance with the SP. But the Congress source defends the alliance with SP, and argues that it was the right thing to do.

The Congress in UP will go into a huddle when party vice-president Rahul Gandhi would return on March 23, and prepare a report on what went wrong with the poll effort and the lessons to be drawn from the campaign.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi to inaugurate Aero India 2023 in Bengaluru, says example of expanding capabilities of India

PM Modi in his address also said that the presence of around 100 nations here is a testament that the trust of the world in India has increased.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Aero India 2023 which is Asia’s largest aero show taking place in Karnataka’s Bengaluru. Prime Minister Narendra Modi while delivering his address at the event said that Aero India is an example of the expanding capabilities in India.

The aero show is the 14 instalment of the event and the objective is to put indigenous equipment and technologies on display in order to get a partnership from companies outside of India.

PM Modi in his address also said that the presence of around 100 nations here is a testament that the trust of the world in India has increased. He further said that the participation of more than 700 exhibitors from India and the world is unprecedented.

The event will be held for 5 days as the visitors will get to witness air shows, aerobatics as well as exhibitions. According to reports, over 809 companies from across 98 countries have participated in the Aero India 2023.

USA’s leading fighter jet , F-16 Falcons will be seen throughout the event as they will be performing aerial demonstrations and sorties. USA’s renowned F/A 18E and F/A-18F Super Hornet will also be seen on display at the event.

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The event is being held in Beneglauru’s Yelahanka Air Force Station and was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh also gave an address and was in attendance on the opening day of the event..

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Uttarakhand Chief Minister Live Updates: Pushkar Singh Dhami to be Uttarakhand CM

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Live Updates: The probable names that are coming out for Uttarakhand CM are Pushkar Singh Dhami, Cabinet Minister and Haridwar MLA Madan Kaushik, Shrinagar MLA Dhan Singh Rawat, former Union minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank and Union Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt.

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The announcement of the name of Chief Minister in Uttarakhand after the BJP came to power yet again in the hill state is set to come out later in the evening today. The probable names that are coming out for Uttarakhand CM are Pushkar Singh Dhami, Cabinet Minister and Haridwar MLA Madan Kaushik, Shrinagar MLA Dhan Singh Rawat, former Union minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank and Union Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt.

However, the road for Pushkar Singh Dhami is not going to be smooth as he lost his seat of Khatima to Congress candidate Bhuwan Chandra Kapri by a margin of 6,579 votes. He got a total of 41,598 votes with a vote share of 44.8 per cent as against Kapri who got 48,177 with a huge vote share of 51.89 per cent.

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BJP to reveal the name of next Chief Minister of Goa today: Pramod Sawant, Vishwajit Rane and Rajendra Arlekar in fray

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will hold a meeting today in Panaji, Goa where it will unravel the suspense over the name of the next Chief Minister and the date of the swearing-in ceremony.

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BJP to reveal the name of next Chief Minister of Goa today

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will hold a meeting today in Panaji, Goa where it will unravel the suspense over the name of the next Chief Minister and the date of the swearing-in ceremony. The BJP legislature party meeting will take place at 4 pm at the BJP office.

Eleven days after winning 20 seats in the 40-member House and securing the support of two MGP MLAs and three Independents, the saffron party will ask the governor to stake a claim to form the government.

On Sunday, Goa BJP President Sadanand Tanavade revealed that Union Ministers Narendra Singh Tomar and L. Murugan will attend the meeting as BJP central observers to help the state establish a government.

Pramod Sawant, a BJP leader, and the temporary chief minister is the strong frontrunner for the role of CM, but he faces some opposition. A senior state BJP leader claimed on Monday that BJP MLA and former state health minister Vishwajit Rane, as well as Himachal Pradesh Governor Rajendra Arlekar, a Goa native, is being considered for the CM post.

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Earlier on Saturday, Sawant met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi to discuss the formation of the government. The BJP will be in power in Goa for the third time in a row.

After choosing the next chief minister, BJP leaders will meet with state governor P S Sreedharan Pillai at 6 p.m. to stake their claim to form the government. In addition to Tomar and Murugan, PM Narendra Modi, Goa election in-charge Devendra Fadnavis, desk in-charge C T Ravi, and Tanavade, would attend the legislature party meeting.

According to the sources, the name of the next Chief Minister of Goa will be revealed by 5 pm and the swearing-in ceremony might take place between 23 to 25.

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