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  • Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah gives ministers target of winning 20 seats in Lok Sabha Elections

    Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah gives ministers target of winning 20 seats in Lok Sabha Elections

    Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who has formed a full-fledged government, has fixed targets for all his Cabinet colleagues, saying they should all strive to win at least 20 of the total 28 seats in the Lok Sabha elections. The Chief Minister on Saturday filled all 34 seats in his Cabinet by inducting 24 new ministers.

    Noting that the Lok Sabha elections are coming in a year, Siddaramaiah said, “We should win at least 20 Lok Sabha constituencies as a gift to party national president Mallikarjun Kharge and seniors Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, and Priyanka Gandhi.”

    Commitment to Party Leadership

    The Chief Minister has instructed the ministers to carry out their responsibilities by keeping this goal in mind and with commitment, honesty, and agility, a statement from the chief minister’s office said. “We should strive sincerely to ensure that the guarantees assured by us reach the people. The mistakes of the past should not be repeated this time,” he was quoted as saying in the statement.Siddaramaiah assured the ministers that portfolio allocation will be completed shortly, and told them, “All of you must work actively. As a result of our struggle in the opposition, people have rejected the misrule of the BJP and held our hands.”

    Responsibilities and Goals

    Telling the ministers to “listen to the people’s problems and respond to them”, he reminded them that “the people of the state have given us an unprecedented majority and also a great responsibility. It is our responsibility to provide a pro-people administration according to their expectations.” He added, “Take steps to solve problems locally and prevent them from running pillar to post even for small works. People should not be made to come to Vidhana Soudha (the seat of the state legislature and secretariat) to get their work done.” “Through our pro-people work, we have to register an unprecedented victory in the Lok Sabha elections again,” he instructed the ministers.

    Extensive District-level Engagement

    The situation is just right to end the misrule of the Centre through Karnataka, he said. “We must not forget this. Therefore, the ministers should travel to their districts extensively. The problems should be solved at the district and taluk level,” Siddaramaiah said.

    The chief minister has given targets to all the ministers and wished them good luck, the statement said, adding that he also asked them to keep a strict vigil on officers and to fight against corruption.

  • Karnataka polls will be key for Congress’ revival ahead of 2024 Lok Sabha elections 

    Karnataka polls will be key for Congress’ revival ahead of 2024 Lok Sabha elections 

    By PTI
    BENGALURU    : Wresting power from the BJP will be a morale booster for the Congress, key for reviving its electoral fortunes and strengthening its credentials as the main opposition player against the saffron party, ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

    By ensuring a win in Karnataka, the party also wants to bounce back after the recent losses in the North-Eastern states and give it a momentum of sorts to take on the battle-ready election machinery of the BJP, later this year in the Hindi heartland states of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan.

    The Congress is by-and-large focused on local issues and its campaign also was run by its state leaders initially.

    However, its central leaders such as AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra pitched in subsequently.

    This poll is also a prestige battle in a way for the grand old party with a Kannadiga Mallikarjun Kharge, who hails from Kalaburagi district, at its helm, as the national president.

    The Congress that entered the campaign with the challenge of keeping at bay factionalism, especially between the camps of its two Chief Ministerial aspirants — Siddaramaiah and D K Shivakumar — who were often seen to be engaging in political one-upmanship, it somehow managed to put a united front and ensured that no rift came out in open and derail its prospects.

    Though the campaign initially centered around its state leaders like Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar, Kharge gave it momentum and thereby prepared the pitch for the party’s top leaders Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi to join in.

    The brother-sister duo extensively travelled across the state, challenging the BJP’s campaign machinery led by Modi, countering and challenging him on various issues, most importantly on the issue of corruption, while promising to provide a better alternative for Karnataka.

    Their mother and former AICC president Sonia Gandhi addressed a party rally in Hubballi on Saturday.

    The party held 99 public meetings and 33 roadshows by its top state and central leaders.

    The Congress has set a target of winning 150 seats, and has been urging voters to ensure that it gets an absolute majority, so that BJP doesn’t “steal” the mandate by managing defections of other party legislators and “manufacture” a majority in its favour.

    The Congress’s main issues to attack the BJP government in this election was over corruption/ scams and the charge of 40 per cent commission, coupled with the Adani issue.

    While extensively highlighting its five key poll ‘guarantees’, the party tried to inform the people about its charge against the BJP government of having “failed in fulfilling 90 per cent of its promises” made in its 2018 manifesto.

    The Congress’ has promised to implement ‘guarantees’ 200 units of free power to all households (Gruha Jyoti), Rs 2,000 monthly assistance to the woman head of every family (Gruha Lakshmi), 10 kg of rice free to every member of a BPL household (Anna Bhagya), Rs 3,000 every month for graduate youth and Rs 1,500 for diploma holders (both in the age group of 18-25) for two years (YuvaNidhi), and free travel for women in public transport buses (Shakti), on the very first day, on coming to power in the state.

    At a time when it seemed like all was going well, the Congress itself waded into controversies with Siddaramaiah’s statement that “there’s already a Lingayat CM who is the most corrupt,” which the BJP turned into an “insult” to the entire Lingayat community.

    Mallikarjun Kharge’s “venomous snake” barb at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and then his son and Chittapur MLA Priyank Kharge ‘nalayak beta’ (incompetent son) remark against him, created a flutter in political circles, eliciting sharp reactions from the BJP.

    Amid these back-to-back controversies, the Congress manifesto proposing to banning the Bajrang Dal caused some anxiety as it threatened to hurt the optics, as BJP and PM Modi aggressively picked up the issue to portray the grand old party as being against Lord Hanuman and the sentiments of Hindus.

  • People will teach a lesson to BJP in Lok Sabha elections: Akhilesh

    People will teach a lesson to BJP in Lok Sabha elections: Akhilesh

    Kanpur (IANS) | Samajwadi Party’s National President Akhilesh Yadav has said that inflation, unemployment, corruption are at its peak in the BJP government. The public will teach them a lesson in the Lok Sabha elections.

    Addressing the silver jubilee celebrations of Nationalist Khatik Vikas Samiti at Lajpat Bhavan, Kanpur, Akhilesh Yadav said that “BJP government has ruined educational institutions. A VC has done huge corruption in educational institutions. The most corrupt Vice Chancellor ever.” He is the chancellor. He is being saved by the people of BJP.”

    He said that “Baba Saheb Bhimrao Ambedkar had laid maximum emphasis on education. But the BJP is ruining the education system, so that the children of the poor are deprived of education and do not move forward.”

    Akhilesh Yadav said that “Today there is so much unemployment in the state, which cannot be imagined. Educated youth have given up hope of employment. They are sitting at home. The BJP government makes false claims of investment. He was also seen in a tie suit, he was invited to the investor summit, MoUs were signed. Even before this, MoUs worth lakhs of crores were signed but nothing materialized. No youth got a job.”

    He said that “BJP is lying on smart cities, Ganga cleaning, doubling the income of farmers. Sewers are full in the cities. Sewers are not cleaned. Bulls roam on the roads. Sewers and drains are falling into the rivers. What This is the smart city. Law and order has collapsed in this government. Criminals are openly carrying out incidents. Samajwadi Party has demanded the BJP government many times outside the assembly and the assembly to release the list of top ten and top 100 criminals. The BJP government is not releasing the list because most of the names in the list are of criminals associated with the BJP.”

    Akhilesh Yadav said that “In order to defeat the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the Congress should promote regional parties. Regional parties are very strong in their respective states, there are governments of regional parties in many states. Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh The only alternative is the BJP.”

    Yadav said that “The population of Khatik community is large, but the count has not been done. That’s why we want caste census to be done. So that everyone gets rights and respect according to their population. BJP government is trying to change the constitution of Babasaheb. Conspiracy is being done. Conspiracy is being done to snatch reservation.

    –IANS