Lok Sabha polls
For 2019 Lok Sabha Election BJP Plans Campaigning on WhatsApp
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met a group of senior BJP leaders about three weeks back where the details of this campaign were presented to them by a senior official in the Prime Minister’s Office, the first person said, asking not to be identified. Meet the “cell phone pramukh” , a key player in the Bharatiya Janata Party’s campaign for 2019. Around 900,000 of these, one for each polling booth or station (there are 927,533) , will drive the party’s extensive WhatsApp-based campaign for parliamentary election, circulating specially designed campaign materialRead More
For 2019 Election Polls Congress Sticks To Shiva , BJP To Ram, SP Picks Vishnu For Goodluck!
Ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the key political parties of Uttar Pradesh seem to have chosen their favourite lords. With the BJP apparently sticking to Lord Ram, the Samajwadi Party seems to have chosen Vishnu and the Congress Lord Shiva to spur their poll fortunes, if remarks by their leaders are any indication. Congress president Rahul Gandh, fresh from his Mansarovar Yatra, was greeted in his Lok Sabha constituency Amethi this week by hundreds of ‘bol bam’-chanting party activists, all dressed up as “Kanwariyas”, the devotees of LordRead More
In SP Event With Mulayam’s Presence, Shivpal Yadav’s Morcha ‘Not Demoralised’
SSM spokesman Deepak Mishra told they were not demoralised after the presence of Mulayam Yadav at an SP event in New Delhi. “We are moving ahead with our socialist agenda and working to strengthen our oganisation,” he said. Determined to “move ahead” with its “socialist” agenda despite Mulayam Singh Yadav making his stand obvious by attending Samajwadi Party events, the Samajwadi Secular Morcha (SSM) said Wednesday it was working on strengthening its organisation and will continue to “honour” the SP founder. SSM spokesman Deepak Mishra told they were not demoralisedRead More
How BJP’s Caste Equation In Rajasthan Imbalance By Resignation Of Manvendra Singh
Manvendra Singh, who announced Saturday he is quitting the party, is said to have a significant influence in the Rajput community in western Rajasthan. The others leaders who could make a difference in the BJP’s caste equations in the state include Brahmin MLA Ghanshyam Tiwari, firebrand Jat leader Hanuman Beniwal and Gujjar agitation’s poster boy Kirori Singh Bainsla. Former union minister Jaswant Singh’s son and Sheo MLA Manvendra Singh is the latest among disgruntled leaders . Who might dent the BJP’s hold among key communities ahead of the assembly elections,Read More
For 2019 AAP Plan To Strike Bargain For 1:4 Poll Equation With Oppn Parties
AAP national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal recently visited areas in Haryana. Where state party head Navin Jaihind has been able to strengthen the organisation in several constituencies. “We will work hard to pose a tough challenge to BJP and Congress on all the 10 seats in Haryana,” he said. The party will contest Lok Sabha polls in the three states – Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh – where assembly elections are due later this year. Besides focussing on Delhi, Haryana and Punjab, he said.Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and GujaratRead More