Tag: Karnataka assembly elections

  • BJP can be defeated if Opposition is ‘aligned properly’: Rahul Gandhi 

    By PTI

    SANTA CLARA: The ruling BJP can be defeated if the Opposition is “aligned properly” and the Congress party is working towards it and it is “coming along very nicely”, Rahul Gandhi has told Indian Americans here, citing his party’s emphatic victory in the recent assembly elections in Karnataka.

    Responding to questions from the moderator and the audiences at an event at the Silicon Valley Campus of the University of California in Santa Cruz on Tuesday, Gandhi said he can clearly see “vulnerabilities” in the BJP.

    As a political entrepreneur, I can clearly see vulnerabilities in the BJP. The BJP can be defeated if the Opposition is aligned properly, he said.

    If you look at the Karnataka elections, the general sense is that the Congress Party fought the BJP and defeated the BJP. But what is not well understood is the mechanics that we used,” he said.

    The Congress party used a completely different approach to fighting an election and building a narrative, Gandhi said, adding that elements of what happened in Karnataka came out of the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’.

    In the May 10 elections to the 224-member Karnataka Assembly, the Congress won 135 seats, while incumbent BJP and the former prime minister H D Deve Gowda-led Janata Dal (Secular) got 66 and 19, respectively.

    Gandhi said in the Karnataka elections, the BJP spent 10 times more money than the Congress party.

    He said the country needed an alternative vision to defeat the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in addition to having a united Opposition in the 2024 general elections.

    On the matter of opposition unity, we are working towards it and it is coming along very nicely. But I think in order to defeat the BJP, you need more than just opposition unity. Just opposition unity, in my opinion, is not going to be enough to do the job. I think you need an alternative vision to the BJP, he said.

    Part of Bharat Jodo Yatra was the first step in proposing such a vision. It’s the vision that all opposition parties are aligned with. No opposition party would disagree with the idea of the Bharat Jodo Yatra,” he said.

    Bharat Jodo Yatra (Unite India March) was a Gandhi-led mass movement aimed at uniting India. The yatra began on September 7 from Kanyakumari, passed through 12 states and culminated in Jammu and Kashmir on January 31.

    During the course of the yatra, Gandhi, 52, addressed 12 public meetings, over 100 corner meetings and 13 press conferences.

    He had over 275 planned walking interactions and more than 100 sitting interactions.

    “So, I think bringing the opposition together is important, but also aligning the opposition and making the people of India understand that there is not just a group of opposition parties that have combined but a proposed way forward for the country. And we’re working on those things, Gandhi said.

    The ex-Wayanad MP said it is the president of the Congress party who will decide the prime ministerial candidate.

    We believe that everybody in India, regardless of who they are, whichever part of the society they come from, should have a voice that voice should be respected, to be listened to be appreciated. And I think that voice is an asset, he said.

    In his address, Gandhi also took a dig at the ruling BJP government, saying it is “threatening” the people and “misusing” the country’s agencies.

    “The BJP is threatening people and misusing government agencies. The Bharat Jodo Yatra started because all the instruments that we needed to connect with the people were controlled by the BJP-RSS,” he said.

    “We were also finding that in some way, it had become quite difficult to act politically. And that’s why we decided to walk from the southernmost tip of India to Srinagar,” he said. Gandhi said the yatra carried the spirit of affection, respect and humility.

    “If one studies history, it can be seen that all spiritual leaders including Guru Nanak Dev ji, Guru Basavanna ji, Narayana Guru ji united the nation in a similar way,” he said.

    Gandhi said India is not what is being shown in the media which likes to promote a political narrative that is far from reality, asserting that there is a “huge distortion”.

    “It was very clear to me in the Yatra that it’s in the media’s interest to project these things, it helps the BJP. So, don’t think that everything you see in the media is the truth,” he said. “India is not what the media shows. The media likes to show a particular narrative. It likes to promote a political narrative that is actually not what is going on in India,” he said.

    The Congress leader arrived here on Tuesday on a three-city US tour during which he will interact with the Indian diaspora and meet American lawmakers.

    He had a first-hand experience of the American immigration system as he had to wait for about two hours along with his other co-passengers on the Air India flight because of the common shortage of staff at the US airports.

    People were seen taking selfies with him and asking him questions.

    He was seen interacting and mingling with other travellers at the San Francisco airport.

    Last week, Indian Overseas Congress chairperson Sam Pitroda said Gandhi’s visit is aimed at promoting shared values and a vision of real democracy.

    “The purpose of his (Gandhi’s) trip is to connect, interact and begin a new conversation with various individuals, institutions and media, including the Indian diaspora that is growing in numbers in the United States and abroad to promote the shared values and vision of the real democracy with a focus on freedom, inclusion, sustainability, justice, peace and opportunities world over,” Pitroda said in a statement.

    SANTA CLARA: The ruling BJP can be defeated if the Opposition is “aligned properly” and the Congress party is working towards it and it is “coming along very nicely”, Rahul Gandhi has told Indian Americans here, citing his party’s emphatic victory in the recent assembly elections in Karnataka.

    Responding to questions from the moderator and the audiences at an event at the Silicon Valley Campus of the University of California in Santa Cruz on Tuesday, Gandhi said he can clearly see “vulnerabilities” in the BJP.

    As a political entrepreneur, I can clearly see vulnerabilities in the BJP. The BJP can be defeated if the Opposition is aligned properly, he said.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });

    If you look at the Karnataka elections, the general sense is that the Congress Party fought the BJP and defeated the BJP. But what is not well understood is the mechanics that we used,” he said.

    The Congress party used a completely different approach to fighting an election and building a narrative, Gandhi said, adding that elements of what happened in Karnataka came out of the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’.

    In the May 10 elections to the 224-member Karnataka Assembly, the Congress won 135 seats, while incumbent BJP and the former prime minister H D Deve Gowda-led Janata Dal (Secular) got 66 and 19, respectively.

    Gandhi said in the Karnataka elections, the BJP spent 10 times more money than the Congress party.

    He said the country needed an alternative vision to defeat the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), in addition to having a united Opposition in the 2024 general elections.

    On the matter of opposition unity, we are working towards it and it is coming along very nicely. But I think in order to defeat the BJP, you need more than just opposition unity. Just opposition unity, in my opinion, is not going to be enough to do the job. I think you need an alternative vision to the BJP, he said.

    Part of Bharat Jodo Yatra was the first step in proposing such a vision. It’s the vision that all opposition parties are aligned with. No opposition party would disagree with the idea of the Bharat Jodo Yatra,” he said.

    Bharat Jodo Yatra (Unite India March) was a Gandhi-led mass movement aimed at uniting India. The yatra began on September 7 from Kanyakumari, passed through 12 states and culminated in Jammu and Kashmir on January 31.

    During the course of the yatra, Gandhi, 52, addressed 12 public meetings, over 100 corner meetings and 13 press conferences.

    He had over 275 planned walking interactions and more than 100 sitting interactions.

    “So, I think bringing the opposition together is important, but also aligning the opposition and making the people of India understand that there is not just a group of opposition parties that have combined but a proposed way forward for the country. And we’re working on those things, Gandhi said.

    The ex-Wayanad MP said it is the president of the Congress party who will decide the prime ministerial candidate.

    We believe that everybody in India, regardless of who they are, whichever part of the society they come from, should have a voice that voice should be respected, to be listened to be appreciated. And I think that voice is an asset, he said.

    In his address, Gandhi also took a dig at the ruling BJP government, saying it is “threatening” the people and “misusing” the country’s agencies.

    “The BJP is threatening people and misusing government agencies. The Bharat Jodo Yatra started because all the instruments that we needed to connect with the people were controlled by the BJP-RSS,” he said.

    “We were also finding that in some way, it had become quite difficult to act politically. And that’s why we decided to walk from the southernmost tip of India to Srinagar,” he said. Gandhi said the yatra carried the spirit of affection, respect and humility.

    “If one studies history, it can be seen that all spiritual leaders including Guru Nanak Dev ji, Guru Basavanna ji, Narayana Guru ji united the nation in a similar way,” he said.

    Gandhi said India is not what is being shown in the media which likes to promote a political narrative that is far from reality, asserting that there is a “huge distortion”.

    “It was very clear to me in the Yatra that it’s in the media’s interest to project these things, it helps the BJP. So, don’t think that everything you see in the media is the truth,” he said. “India is not what the media shows. The media likes to show a particular narrative. It likes to promote a political narrative that is actually not what is going on in India,” he said.

    The Congress leader arrived here on Tuesday on a three-city US tour during which he will interact with the Indian diaspora and meet American lawmakers.

    He had a first-hand experience of the American immigration system as he had to wait for about two hours along with his other co-passengers on the Air India flight because of the common shortage of staff at the US airports.

    People were seen taking selfies with him and asking him questions.

    He was seen interacting and mingling with other travellers at the San Francisco airport.

    Last week, Indian Overseas Congress chairperson Sam Pitroda said Gandhi’s visit is aimed at promoting shared values and a vision of real democracy.

    “The purpose of his (Gandhi’s) trip is to connect, interact and begin a new conversation with various individuals, institutions and media, including the Indian diaspora that is growing in numbers in the United States and abroad to promote the shared values and vision of the real democracy with a focus on freedom, inclusion, sustainability, justice, peace and opportunities world over,” Pitroda said in a statement.

  • AAP says it will do better in Karnataka Assembly polls than in Gujarat

    By PTI

    BENGALURU: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is scouting for good candidates who can win on their own reputation, and would focus on about 60 constituencies in the Assembly elections in Karnataka just a few months away.

    AAP is upbeat after wresting control of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) from the BJP and the noticeable show in the Gujarat Assembly election, say party leaders in Karnataka.

    The party’s state unit Vice-President Bhaskar Rao told PTI here on Friday that the five AAP candidates who emerged victorious in the Gujarat poll were not backed by “money and muscle power”, and they won on their own reputation.

    “We would like to pursue that line here (in Karnataka)”, he said. While the party would field “new and good candidates” in all the 224 Assembly constituencies in Karnataka, where the polls are due by May, it would focus on 50 to 60 “winnable” segments.

    “We are very optimistic that in Karnataka, we will make a better mark than what we have done in Gujarat”, Rao said, adding that campaigning by AAP National Convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for Karnataka Assembly polls would definitely boost the party’s “winnability, acceptability and chances”.

    ALSO READ | In victory speech, Kejriwal seeks PM’s blessings to run MCD

    Karnataka needs a “thoroughly new model”, he said. Congress, BJP and coalition models have been “rejected”, according to him.

    “We will concentrate on people (candidates) with good reputation”, added Rao, a former Bengaluru Police Commissioner.

    On the contention in some quarters that the AAP had eaten into Congress votes in the recent Assembly elections in Gujarat, he said nobody stopped M Mallikarjun Kharge-led party from consolidating their votes.

    He also said: “We are buoyed that Modi magic has not worked in Himachal Pradesh. So, it cannot work here (Karnataka) also”.

    BENGALURU: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is scouting for good candidates who can win on their own reputation, and would focus on about 60 constituencies in the Assembly elections in Karnataka just a few months away.

    AAP is upbeat after wresting control of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) from the BJP and the noticeable show in the Gujarat Assembly election, say party leaders in Karnataka.

    The party’s state unit Vice-President Bhaskar Rao told PTI here on Friday that the five AAP candidates who emerged victorious in the Gujarat poll were not backed by “money and muscle power”, and they won on their own reputation.

    “We would like to pursue that line here (in Karnataka)”, he said. While the party would field “new and good candidates” in all the 224 Assembly constituencies in Karnataka, where the polls are due by May, it would focus on 50 to 60 “winnable” segments.

    “We are very optimistic that in Karnataka, we will make a better mark than what we have done in Gujarat”, Rao said, adding that campaigning by AAP National Convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for Karnataka Assembly polls would definitely boost the party’s “winnability, acceptability and chances”.

    ALSO READ | In victory speech, Kejriwal seeks PM’s blessings to run MCD

    Karnataka needs a “thoroughly new model”, he said. Congress, BJP and coalition models have been “rejected”, according to him.

    “We will concentrate on people (candidates) with good reputation”, added Rao, a former Bengaluru Police Commissioner.

    On the contention in some quarters that the AAP had eaten into Congress votes in the recent Assembly elections in Gujarat, he said nobody stopped M Mallikarjun Kharge-led party from consolidating their votes.

    He also said: “We are buoyed that Modi magic has not worked in Himachal Pradesh. So, it cannot work here (Karnataka) also”.

  • Editorial :- The nationalism of the Sangh is the separatism of the Congress

    Congress denotes separatism This is the reason that Hamid Ansari, after being removed from the post of Vice President, became the symbol of the first jihadi fundamentalist separatism and joined the ISI-affiliated organization of the organization PFI at a function. Seeing this scene, the polynomial Janayoghari Brahmin Rahul Gandhi and his mother were quite energetic. Since the Congress does not go public with Janpath, it was natural to sprinkle the leader of the blind-witted Congress leader of Nehru-Gandhi Dynasty.

    Here’s a picture of how this situation happened later.

    During the Gujarat assembly elections, Rahul Gandhi had knocked on the doors of the temples while digging the votes of the Hindus to be called the Janawardi Brahmin. On the other hand, the star campaigner of the Congress to grab the votes of Muslims was Buran Wani, a devotee of the Hurriyat who considered the leader of the Hurriyat, Salman Nizami

    Prior to the Karnataka Assembly elections, Congress’s Karnataka cabinet decided to withdraw the case against the Muslim organizations’ Jihadi Front (PFI) and the Karnataka Forum for Dignity (KFD) workers. Who had been called from Kerala for the riots in different parts of the state in recent years.

    There is nothing new for Gandhi Dynasty. From Pandit Nehru to all other descendants, during their own reign, they have been following the policy of votebank politics and rule.

    It is worth noting that Jigrass got financial support from Jihadi organization PFI at the time of Gujarat elections.

    Omar Khalid’s father, who has been the officer in the SIMI terrorist organization PFI is a renamed form of this banned organization, SIMI. Omar Khalid, Kanhaiya Kumar and Hardik Patel are on trial for treason On the basis of these same people, Rahul Gandhi is looking forward to becoming the Prime Minister.

    I think it’s fair to do this more clearly. There were two Home Minister Sushil Shinde and P. Chidambaram in the UPA regime. Both of them spread the lies of Hindu terrorism, saffron terrorism.

    Two Pakistani citizens were arrested by the police in the compromise blast. In the case of the Sarpanch and Malegaon blasts, the innocent Karnal Purohit and Pradnya Bharti were imprisoned in the jail to defame Hindus and make Pakistan happy.

    The UPA government wanted the union chief Mohan Bhagwat ji to be arrested in the case. But immediately after this thought, the conspiracy did not succeed with the end of UPA rule.

    Now on June 7, in the Sangh’s program, former President Pranab Mukherjee has approved to join and give speeches on nationalism, this is because some Congress leaders are hurt.

    Sandeep Dikshit, who called the Chief of the Army Staff Vipin Rawat as a street punk, has favored the former president’s move.

    Senior Congress leader CK Jafar Sharif has written to Pranab Mukherjee not to join the Sangh’s program. It is also said, “I do not understand, what is such compulsion?”

    It is pertinent to remind the separatist leaders of the Congress that in 1963, Nehru was reminded of the union workers being called in the Republic Day parade. It is also being reported from the Sangh that on the call of senior leader Eknath Ranade, Indira Gandhi had unveiled the Vivekananda Rogue Memorial in 1977. The Sangh also praised the relief work done during floods and other emergencies.

    If the Congress does not have the secularism today, then it will have to adopt nationalism instead of separatism.