Nitish Kumar who has been the chief minister of Bihar for 14 years and 6 months has announced his retirement at a rally in Dhamdaha in Purnia and also announced that all is well that ends well. The day before poll in his speech he said “This is my last election, will you vote for JD(U) or not”. Bihar’s third and last phase of poll is scheduled on November 7. The surprise announcement came on the last day of campaigning and set off speculation about the bad story. According to sources’ Kumar has sought to send out a clear message different from his ally BJP which analysts’ say can be attributed to the fact that the Muslims dominated Seemanchal region goes to poll on Saturday and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath a star campaigner for the BJP talked about driving away illegal immigrants during his rally in Seemanchal.
THREE CONGRESS MP’S MISSED CAPT. AMARINDER SINGH’S DHARNA
Chief Minister of Punjab Captain Amarinder Singh has sat on symbolic dharna at Jantar Mantar along with his ministers, MLAs and MPs from the state against the step motherly treatment towards Punjab by the union government but surprisingly all the three Rajya Sabha MPs and senior leaders of Punjab Ambika Soni, Pratap Singh Bajwa and Shamsher Singh Dullo were missing. While Bajwa and Dullo have openly spoken out against the chief minister in the past, Ambika Soni is said not to share a good rapport with the chief minister. According to Chief Minister’ office all the three Rajya Sabha MPs were informed about the dharna. Meanwhile Rajya Sabha MP has said they were not told about the dharna plans earlier.
AMIT SHAH SETS A TARGET OF 200 SEATS FOR BJP IN BENGAL ASSEMBLY POLL
The crucial election in Bihar and by-polls of 28 seats in Madhya Pradesh are close to end and the preparation for the West Bengal assembly election has started with the two day visit of Union Home Minister Amit Shah in West Bengal where he visited on November 5 a tribal family in Bankura district and Bangladeshi refugee family from Matua community in Kolkata. Mamata Banerjee also reached out to these very two communities with a string of incentives and financial aid. On Wednesday the state government granted land rights to 25000 refugee families and she said 1.25 Lakh families would eventually stand to benefit. Meanwhile Amit Shah has fixed a target of 200 seats out of 294 assembly seatsin West Bengal. The election is due early next year. Amit Shah has appealed to the people to over throw Mamata’s govt and give the BJP an opportunity to serve and build Sonar Bangla.
RAHUL GANDHI CALLS SHARAD YADAV’S DAUGHTER HIS SISTER IN BIHAR RALLY
Everything is fair in politics. The best example of this was narrated by Rahul Gandhi while addressing a rally for Subhashini Yadav daughter of veteran socialist leader Sharad Yadav who had fought the Congress all his life. In the meeting Rahul Gandhi gave a surprise by calling Sharad Yadav his guru. He narrated that he and Yadav were together in a function in Andhra Pradesh few years ago and travelled in the same car for about two hours where Yadav taught him a lot about Indian Politics so Yadav is his guru and his daughter is like a sister whose protection is his responsibility. Subhashini had joined Congress and she is fighting on Congress ticket from the Bihariganj seat in Madhepura. (IPA)
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