Many law graduates, MBA holders and youthswith PhD degrees were seen on the road outside Ramlila ground dressed in their graduation robes selling tea and pakoras. They are claiming that after completing their postgraduation, young people in the country are unemployed and the BJP government is responsible for it. They are among those who travelled from Kerala to attend the Congress-led Bharat Bachao Rally, wherein party workers and leaders from Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Arunachal Pradesh made their presence felt. The massive rally was addressed by Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and former Finance Minister P Chidambaram, among others. In the rally, Rahul Gandhi refused to apologise for his “Rape inIndia” comment against the recent spate of gruesome sexual crimes in the country. 13 students from Kerala, who were all wearing matching white t-shirts, saidthey believed that even though the BJP came back to power in the 2019LokSabha polls, the massive attendance at the rally proved that Congress would soon bounce back.
PRASHANT KISHOR MEETS NITISH AFTER OPPOSING CAA/NRC
Faced with the pressure from his party leaders following his tweets against JD(U)’s decision to support the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill (CAB) in Parliament, JD(U) National Vice President Prashant Kishor met Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar a few days back. According to party sources, in the meeting Nitish Kumar assured Prashant Kishor that NRC would not be implemented in the state.Moreover, Nitish Kumar also turned down the offer of resignation from his post byPrashant Kishor. Emerging after a two-hour-long meeting at the chief minister’s residence, Kishor declared that he stood by his statement.Kishor said the ball was now in Nitish Kumar’s court regarding his prospects within JD(U).
MAHARASHTRA BJP SEES INTENSE INFIGHTING AFTER ASSEMBLY LOSS
After the formation of Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government in Maharashtra, the infighting within BJP is going strong. There is a huge fight between former Chief Minister Deverdra Fadnavis and the Marathas and the backwards in the state unit of the BJP. Eknath Khadse and Pankaja Munde have already started criticizing Fadnavis openly. On 12 December, Pankaja Munde organised a rally in Beed district on the day of her father Gopinath Munde’s birth anniversary, at which BJP state president Chandrakant Patil was also present. Eknath Khadse has blamed Fadnavis for not giving him a ticket in the assembly election at the behest of the BJP high command and hinted that he may leave the party soon. While PankajaMundehas refused to leave the party, but she might come on the road in January to “expose” Fadnavis and blame him for her defeat from the Parli assembly seat. Munde and Khadse are also criticizing Fadnavis for taking the support of Ajit Pawar in making government in the presence of BJP state president Chandrakant Patil.
AS AIADMK, DMK CLASH ON CITIZENSHIP LAW, TAMIL NADU TREMBLES
With the new Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 in place, the political fight in Tamil Nadu has peaked between the ruling AIADMK and the main opposition DMK on the delicate issue of 1 lakh Sri Lankan Tamils sheltered in the southern state. It has been widely criticized that AIADMK supported the citizenship bill in Parliament, ignoring the issue of the long-pending citizenship of Sri Lankan Tamils. The DMK youth wing has now started organising protests across the state, making this a crucial plank. As a result, hundreds of DMK cadres, including MK Stalin’s son and actor-turned-politician Udhayanidhi Stalin, were taken into custody by Tamil Nadu police. Students of New College in the city also organised massive protests calling the law anti-national and anti-constitutional. In fact, DMK had called a statewide agitation on December 17, which was a grand success. Political observers from Tamil Nadu say it is after many years that DMK and AIADMK are fighting on the streets on an extremely charged political issue. Commentators are clear this fight will decide the political fate of the state for the next assembly election.(IPA Service)
Resurgence Of The Students Protest In Independent India 