NEW DELHI: The Congress on Monday launched a fierce attack on the BJP accusing it of destabilising the northeast in its blind quest for power . Still reeling from a dismal show in the recently-concluded http://www.blogster.com/kkdigital/d4int-services-in-bangaloreassembly polls in Tripura Nagaland and Meghalaya senior Congress leader Randeep Surjewala tweeted up a storm and charged that the saffron party was forsaking the stability of the region so it can assume power at any cost and by any means . Tell tale signs of BJP s blind quest for power superseding the stability of region propagation of democracy nipping the separatist tendencies and ignoring core issues of region are already visible Surjewala tweeted. The Congress communications in-charge pointed out that the BJP was allying itself with regional parties whose ideology and demands it did not necessarily prescribe to or support thereby undermining the mandate of the people of the state. The BJP-IPFT combine decimated the Left Front in Tripura by securing 43 seats in the 60-strong assembly. In Tripura BJP aligned with IPFT whose election plank is division of state and now demands a tribal CM. Time for Modi government and BJP to address both issues. Does it stand for demand for division of state of Tripura? Would it reject the demand for a tribal CM? enquired Surjewala. Turning to Nagaland where Congress and BJP had till last month been part of the NPF-led government Surjewala called out the saffron party for switching sides at the eleventh hour to join hands with the fledgling NDPP floated by former chief minister Neiphiu Rio. In Nagaland BJP is in government with NPF yet fought election in alliance with its opposition party NDPP. NPF won 26 seats and NDPP won 18 seats. With both NPF and NDPP staking claim to form the government is Nagaland headed for another round of instability like in last 5 years? And Naga Accord? said Surjewala. He was referring to Nagaland Peace Framework signed by the Modi government and the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah) in 2015 that brought an end to insurgency and made way for peace talks in the north-eastern state. Many regional parties had called for a boycott of the February 27 polls in the absence of clarity over the Naga peace accord. Congress President Rahul Gandhi has previously targeted PM Modi over the Naga accord and said it was nowhere to be found after nearly three years of being finalized. Surjewala then touched upon the sore spot of Meghalaya where the BJP with only two seats in hand once again outmaneuvered the ruling Congress by negotiating an alliance with other parties to form the government. Even after emerging as the single largest party with 21 seats the grand old party failed to retain power in the state it had ruled for the last 15 years. In Meghalaya as BJP assumes power with just 2 MLAs every discordant party that fought BJP and each other ideologically-politically-electorally is sewn up to form the government at any cost - NPP UDP PDF HSDP BJP Ind. Is this the answer to Meghalaya s aspirations and a stable government he railed. Meghalaya is the second state after Manipur and Goa where the Congress has not been able to forge a post-poll alliance with any of the regional parties despite emerging as the largest single party. BJP is following a dangerous game of destabilsation subversion and usurpation of power in North East unmindful of the stability security peace and progress. Hope Modiji had cared to learn from Rajivji who put Nation First and brought peace to the region by Assam and Mizo accords Surjewala said.
Written by Lalmani Verma | New Delhi | Updated: March 13 2018 8:49 am Naresh Agarwal with Pramod Tiwari (Congress) in Parliament Monday hours before joining the BJP. (Express Photo: Tashi Tobgyal) Related News Delhi Confidential: Inside The DealNaresh Agarwal s Naachney Wali jibe at Jaya Bachchan upsets BJP: But it s nothing new for himPossibility of Samajwadi Party alliance with Congress in UP almost over: Naresh AgarwalIn 2016 when a bitter feud was in progress in the Samajwadi Party s first family with Akhilesh Yadav on one side and his uncle and then state party chief Shivpal Yadav on the other party leader Naresh Agrawal was seen as being at the centre of efforts to bridge the chasm and reunite the family. When Akhilesh took charge of the SP as national president Agrawal sided with him and was rewarded with the post of party national general secretary. On Monday when he joined the BJP Agrawal expressed his affection for SP leader Mulayam Singh Yadav as well as his cousin Ram Gopal Yadav saying he could never leave them besides praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. Over his political career of more than three decades Agrawal has had stints in the Congress SP and BSP before joining the BJP. He is currently an SP MP in Rajya Sabha. While he has won elections under two different parties. A seven-time MLA from Hardoi district in central UP Agrawal quit the SP Monday after the party chose to nominate Jaya Bachchan to the RS. Read | Rajya Sabha polls: Naresh Agarwal joining BJP spoils SP BSP s numbers game; here s how Hardoi is also from where the BJP has picked another former SP leader Ashok Bajpai as the RS nominee. Agrawal was elected to the Upper House in 2010 as the BSP nominee and was re-elected in 2012 as the SP candidate. This was his second stint in the SP after leaving in 2008 to join the BSP. Then Mayawati had appointed him party national general secretary and even fielded him in the Lok Sabha election from Farrukhabad 2009 which he lost. Piyush Goyal welcomes Agrawal to BJP. (Express Photo: Tashi Tobgyal) When the BSP denied his son Nitin a ticket in the assembly elections he returned to the SP in 2011. Agrawal was first elected MLA in 1980 from the Hardoi seat under the Congress banner and again in 1989 as an independent. Soon after he joined the Congress again and won three successive assembly elections in in 1991 1993 and 1996. Read | Naresh Agarwal s Naachney Wali jibe at Jaya Bachchan upsets BJP: But it s nothing new for him He won the seat again in 2002 and 2007 this time with the SP. In the 2012 assembly elections Agrawal passed on his legacy to his son Nitin who was elected MLA from the same seat and was even made a minister under former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav. Nitin is presently SP MLA from Hardoi even as Agrawal Monday announced his vote would favour the BJP in the RS elections. The loss of Nitin s vote will hurt the SP which has fielded one candidate and has promised support to the BSP. Agrawal was also part of the Kalyan Singh-led BJP government after forming the Loktantrik Congress and was minister in the BJP governments led by Ram Prakash Gupta and Rajnath Singh. He was also power and transport minister in the Mulayam Singh Yadav government between 2003 and 2007. Agrawal who made comments about dance karne wali Monday has often made controversial remarks and been outspoken in Rajya sabha. In December 2017 Agarwal had raised a controversy when he said Kulbhushan Jadhav had been declared a terrorist by Pakistan and that the country would treat him like one. He issued a clarification later. In July last year Agarwal made controversial remarks which were later expunged about Hindu gods sparking a protest by the BJP in Rajya Sabha. Agarwal later apologised. For all the latest India News download Indian Express App More Related News From the gallery UP Gov stays mum on comments by SP leaders Tags: Naresh Agarwal
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ALSO READ Punjab minister submits resignation after corruption taint Modi cannot create wedge between me Congress: Amarinder Pb CM moots income tax self-payment by elected representatives Punjab CM ministers decide to pay their own Income Tax Punjab CM unfurls tricolour at R-Day parade in Patiala span.p-content div id = div-gpt line-height:0;font-size:0 Members of the Indian National Congress (INC) in Ludhiana prayed for the well being of Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on the occasion of his 75th birthday on Sunday. The INC members performed a yajna to mark the occasion. Today we conducted a yajna for Captain Amarinder Singh on the occasion of his birthday for his well being and long life. said President Congress of Ludhiana district Gurpreet Singh Gogi .Singh started his professional life on a heroic note when he served as a Captain in the 1965 Indo-Pak war.He defeated senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley by 1 02 000 votes in 2014 general elections and was also chosen as the President of Punjab Congress ahead of 2017 elections in the state.It was on Singh s birthday in 2017 when he got the best gift of his life after Congress won by a thumping majority with 77 seats in the 117-member Punjab Assembly.(This story has not been edited by Business Standard staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
NEW DELHI: An Indian-origin economist in Singapore is threatening to take the Congress to court over a tweet it posted of party president Rahul Gandhi s interaction at a university in the city state. Rahul Gandhi supports talks on J&K issue says bad political decision responsible for current turmoil The clip the party posted juxtaposes an audience question critical of the Congress with a second one - an audience comment really - heaping praise on it and then shows Rahul s answer - a rather humorous answer - to the second question. With political discourse hitting new lows everyday Congress President Rahul Gandhi shows how to gracefully handle https://t.co/lTl2pE5sDM Congress (@INCIndia) 1520521398000 The man who asked the first question is Prasenjit Basu an economist and author of a book called Asia Reborn: He s the one peeved that the Congress posted a video that shows his question but not Rahul s answer to his question. The video isn t exactly doctored but Basu calls it a classic fake-news video . The Congress didn t even censor Basu s critical question it just chose to highlight an answer that Rahul gave later in his interaction which referred to Basu s question. The author though believes the Congress is using his image to falsely advertise the party President. Withdraw this false video or prepare for prosecution in Singapore s courts! tweeted an irate-sounding Basu. @INCIndia This is a classic fake-news video. You are using my image to falsely advertise your politician showing a https://t.co/1lHHQUlIa4 Prasenjit K. Basu (@PrasenjitKBasu) 1520528683000 This was the question Basu asked: Why is it that during the years that your family ruled India India s per capita income was growing less than the world average? And yet in the years since your family relinquished the prime ministership of India India s per capita income has grown substantially faster than the world average? In its video clip of the interaction the Congress cuts after this to a comment about Jawaharlal Nehru and the Congress. I am a great admirer of your great-grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru and I think all the good things wherever India is today it s because of the Congress this audience member said. The clip then shows Rahul s rather humorous response to a comment even he recognised for its fawning tone. You are both going to extremes. I mean give me something in the middle. I mean he s (Basu s) saying I am the cause of every single problem. And you are saying I m the cause of every single solution. I mean this is crazy said Rahul. The Congress president then said that these extreme views reflected how polarised India has become. This conversation shows you the polarisation. That gentleman (Basu) thinks that nothing has ever been done by the Congress party. This gentleman (second speaker) thinks that everything has been done by the Congress party said Rahul as the audience burst out laughing. The Congress president also got in a dig at Basu as he explained that he believes India s success is due to its people and not because of the Congress or despite of it. Let me tell you what the truth is. India s success is hugely because of India s people. However anybody in this room who thinks that the Congress party is not part of that success thinks liberalisation wasn t a success...green revolution was not a success ...needs to write a new book he said very likely referring to Basu whose book was published in September last year. In his answer the Congress president also trained his guns on Narendra Modi and took a subtle dig at him by offering to hug Basu. The Congress has often been critical of what it calls Modi s hugplomacy - the PM s fondness for hugging other world leaders. I am proud to sit in a room and have a gentleman say this (critical comments) to me. Now there s something else... Mr. Narendra Modi would never do that. You would never have the ability to say what you said to me in front of Mr. Narendra Modi and am absolutely blazingly proud of that said Rahul. After this meeting I want to give you a hug and say you are very important to me he added.
Hours after inducting them to the Biju Janata Dal party chief and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik named editor and politician Soumya Ranjan Patnaik and educationist Dr Achyuta Samanta as his party s candidates for Rajya Sabha seats. His party will also be sending current Begunia MLA and party Vice President Prashanta Nanda to the upper house. Three RS seats would fall vacant with the terms of BJD MPs A U Singh Deo former hockey captain Dilip Tirkey and BJD-backed independent candidate AV Swamy coming to an end on April 2. Soumya Ranjan Patnaik son-in-law of late Indian National Congress Chief Minister JB Patnaik was with the BJP and then with Congress. Patnaik had been sacked soon after his brother Niranjan Patnaik had been removed from the post of PCC President in 2013. The influential businessman who owns the regional paper Sambad an Odia TV channel and radio station had then launched his own party Ama Odisha in 2013. He contested from the Khandapada constituency in Nayagrh district in 2014 but lost from a narro margin. Since then he has lent his support to issues like chit fund and farmers plight keeping up the pressure against Patnaik s government On Wednesday the editor who has served a term as Lok Sabha MP from the Congress said right now he it was important for people to consolidate around issues that mattered. Being a lone voice was of no use. Speaking to ET Patnaik said We have been giving far too much importance to parties and leaders and letting issues take a backseat. It is issues that I have prioritised and I think all political parties small and big must consolidate themselves around issues. Today am concerned about two important issues. Nationally I think the idea of India is in danger and any right thinking person must do whatever he can to consolidate in this fight to protect it. there has never been a more important time to fight for Odisha s interest whether it is for special category status or the Mahanadi river dispute. I think a regional party is the best platform to fight for the state s interest he added. Samanta whose organisation runs engineering and medical colleges and the county s single largest educational institute dedicated to tribal children Kalinga institute of Social Sciences also made his foray into active politics on Wednesday. Samanta enjoys considerable goodwill as a philanthropist and for the free education KISS provides to thousands of children. Naveen Patnaik s pro- people policy clean image and dedication to development of the weaker section inspired me to join BJD he told the media. Nominations for the three seats are to be filed before March 12 and polling is to be held on March 23. Naveen Patnaik s BJD occupies 117 of the state s 147 house assembly seats.
.story-content span .story-content p .story-content div color:#000!important;font-family: open sans Arial!important;font-size:15px!important ALSO READ Modi hosts party leaders for brainstorming for 2019 Lok Sabha polls Winning North East assembly elections critical for BJP s policy promises BJP and union of dissenters in the months leading to Lok Sabha elections Himachal results: As counting nears BJP Congress both claim victory Rahul Gandhi sworn in as Congress president hits out at PM Narendra Modi span.p-content div id = div-gpt line-height:0;font-size:0 Since 2014 the average percentage of votes the Indian National Congress http://www.bricksite.com/kkdigital has drawn in six of the seven northeastern states Meghalaya Tripura Nagaland Arunachal Pradesh Assam and Manipur has dropped 13.4 percentage points from 38.1% to 24.7%. The average number of seats it has won has nearly halved from 34.8 to 19.5 an IndiaSpend analysis shows. Ever since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power at the Centre in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections its average vote share in the northeast has grown 23.1 percentage points from 3.9% to 27%. From winning an average of 1.5 seats in the six states elections between 2009 and 2014 the BJP has won an average of 23.5 seats here since 2014. In the February 2018 elections although the BJP s vote share of 27% has been only a few percentage points higher than the Congress 24.7% the BJP with more seats and by swiftly forming coalitions with regional parties is now part of the government in all six states. Since the two national parties are yet to contest in Mizoram which is set to go to the polls later this year when its 2013 assembly term ends the state has not been included in our analysis. table th td font-size: 12px; font-family: arial; border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid black; table width:580px; th td text-align:center; padding:2px; th.center text-align:center; tr:nth-child(odd) background-color: #f9f9f9; tr:nth-child(even) background-color:#fff; th background-color: #1f77b4; color: #FFFFF0; font-weight: bold; Average Vote Share And Seats Of Congress And BJP Before & After 2014 BJP Congress Average Vote Share (%) Average Seats Won Average Vote Share (%) Average Seats Won Pre-2014 3.9 1.5 Pre-2014 38.1 34.8 Post-2014 27 23.5 Post-2014 24.7 19.5 Rise 23.1 22 Drop 13.4 15.3 Source: Election Commission of India A year before 2014 Congress vote share was between 24% and 36% Until a year prior to the BJP s win in the 2014 national elections the Congress had enjoyed a considerably larger vote share ranging between 24% and 36% while the BJP s had been below 2%. In the 2013 elections in Meghalaya where the Congress had been in power through one alliance or another since 1976 it had polled more than one-third (34.8%) of the votes. This is now down 6.3 percentage points to 28.5%. Although the Congress has emerged as the single largest party in the February 2018 election the BJP with two seats (it had none in 2013) has forged an alliance with the National People s Party (NPP) United Democratic Party Hill State People s Democratic Party and the People s Democratic Front to form the government in the Meghalaya. Its vote share has grown 8.3 percentage points from 1.27% to 9.6%. In Tripura where the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) had been in power for 25 years the Congress vote share of 36.5% had been the second-largest in the 2013 elections. Last week s results saw the party s vote share plummet 34.7 percentage points to 1.8%. In 2013 the party had won 10 seats; this year it has won none. The BJP s vote share in Tripura in 2013 was even lower 1.3% but has now grown 41.7 percentage points to 43% more than that of the CPM s 42.6% allowing the party to form the government with 35 seats (it had none in 2013) and in alliance with the Indigenous People s Front of Tripura (which has won eight). In Nagaland the BJP had already been in power through an alliance with the Naga Peoples Front (NPF) since 2003 but the Congress had enjoyed a larger vote share in state elections until now. In the 2013 elections the Congress had been the second largest party recording a vote share of 24.9%. This has now fallen 22.8 percentage points to 2.1%. The BJP in winning 12 seats has won 15.3% of the votes a 13.5-percentage-point increase from 2013 when its vote share was 1.8%. The party has now re-joined the NPF after briefly breaking away over a seat-sharing dispute before the February 2018 election to form the ruling alliance in Nagaland. A Year Before 2014: Vote Share And Seats Congress Vs BJP Vote Share (In %) State Post 2014 Pre-2014 Year Congress BJP Year Congress BJP Tripura 2018 1.8 43% 2013 36.5 1.50% Meghalaya 2018 28.5 9.60% 2013 34.8 1.30% Nagaland 2018 2.1 15.30% 2013 24.9 1.80% Seats Won State Post 2014 Pre-2014 Year Congress BJP Year Congress BJP Tripura 2018 0 35 2013 10 0 Meghalaya 2018 21 2 2013 29 0 Nagaland 2018 0 12 2013 8 1 Source: Election Commission of India 2014 onwards BJP vote share climbed 18-34 percentage points April 2014 when Arunachal Pradesh had its last state election a month before the Lok Sabha elections was the first time a shift in power in the region had become apparent. While the Congress had won 42 seats and gained a vote share of 49.5% it had failed to form the government as the BJP with 11 seats and a 31% vote share had quickly formed alliances with the People s Party of Arunachal and independents to wrest control. Although the Congress vote share had declined by just 0.9 percentage points from 50.4% in 2009 to 49.5% in 2014 the BJP s had risen 20.6 percentage points from 5.2% to 25.8%. Two years later in 2016 in the next state election held in neighbouring Assam the Congress party had seen a 8.4-percentage-point decline in its vote share from 39.4% in 2011 to 31% in 2016. The number of seats it had won was down by 52 from 78 in 2011 to 26 in 2016. The BJP s vote share meanwhile had risen by 18 percentage points from 11.5% in 2011 to 29.5% in 2016. From winning a handful of seats (five) in the previous election the national ruling party had now secured 60 seats firmly establishing itself in India s largest northeastern state. In the Manipur election of 2017 the Congress had emerged as the single largest party winning 28 seats seven more than the BJP s 21 but its vote share had actually fallen 7.3 percentage points from 42.4% in 2012 to 35.1% in 2017. The BJP s vote share had risen 34.2 percentage points from 2.1% to 36.3% during this time. The Congress had lost 14 seats from 2012; the BJP had only gained since it had had no seats in the previous assembly. Yet again despite the Congress winning more seats the BJP had swiftly mobilised an alliance with the National People s Party Naga People s Front Lok Janshakti Party Trinamool Congress and one defecting Congress MLA to form the government. 2014 Onwards: Vote Share And Seats Of Congress And BJP Vote Share (In %) State Post 2014 Pre-2014 Year Congress BJP Year Congress BJP Arunachal Pradesh 2014 49.5 31 2009 50.4 5.2 Assam 2016 31 29.5 2011 39.4 11.5 Manipur 2017 35.1 36.3 2012 42.4 2.1 Seats Won State Post 2014 Pre-2014 Year Congress BJP Year Congress BJP Arunachal Pradesh 2014 42 11 2009 42 3 Assam 2016 26 60 2011 78 5 Manipur 2017 28 21 2012 42 0 Source: Election Commission of India (Saldanha is an assistant editor with IndiaSpend.)
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