Union Dwelling Minister Amit Shah’s marketing campaign schedule on Thursday is full of temple visits and rallies.
He’ll first go to Mandla in Madhya Pradesh to carry out a puja on the Maa Narmada Pujon Rapta ghat. After that, he’ll tackle a rally on the native police floor. Mandla will vote in Section 1 of the Lok Sabha elections, scheduled for April 19, and the BJP’s Faggan Singh Kulaste will tackle the Congress’ Omkar Singh Markaam right here.
Within the afternoon, he’ll journey to Katni in Madhya Pradesh the place he’ll go to the Vijaynath Dham mandir within the city. Katni falls below the Khajuraho Lok Sabha constituency from the place the BJP’s VD Sharma is once more contesting.
The BJP had received 28 of the 29 seats in Madhya Pradesh final time, and will probably be seen if it might handle to retain the tally in a state that falls into the Hindi heartland grouping that the BJP virtually swept final time.
Shah will even journey to Maharashtra, which has all of the indications of being a neck-and-neck struggle to date, with each the Maha Vikas Aghadi (Shiv Sena (UBT), Congress, NCP(Sharadchandra Pawar) in addition to the ruling NDA (BJP, Shiv Sena NCP) vowing to go all out. The approaching election can be the primary main electoral contest after the respective splits within the Sena and the NCP.
Shah will tackle a gathering in Nanded, his first election rally in Maharashtra. Nanded will vote within the second section scheduled for April 26. Right here, the BJP has fielded sitting MP Prataprao Chikhlikar as its candidate, whereas the Congress occasion’s former MLA Vasantrao Yashwant is within the fray.
The Nanded Lok Sabha seat is among the many eight constituencies in Marathwada area — a area that has remained a problem for the BJP. Regardless of many efforts, the BJP has not been capable of make deep inroads in Nanded. Even in the course of the Narendra Modi wave in 2014, Ashok Chavan had defeated BJP candidate Digambar Patil. However this time, the BJP hopes to reverse the development.
In February, the BJP obtained Congress chief and former chief minister Ashok Chavan to hitch the occasion. This was an enormous setback to the Congress with Chavan having an enormous base in Marathwada.
Within the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Chavan, who had then contested as Congress candidate, was defeated by BJP’s Prataprao Chikhlikar.
The BJP can be taking coronary heart from the lack of the Congress maintain within the area, which is now restricted to the districts of Latur and Nanded.
In 2019, out of the eight seats, the Shiv Sena received three whereas the BJP received 4. The AIMIM was a shock winner within the lone seat of Chhatrapati Samabhajinagar. In a modified political state of affairs after the cut up within the Shiv Sena, the duty in entrance of Shiv Sena *UBT)’s Uddhav Thackeray might be to retain his dominance.
In the meantime, Raj Thakeray, the president of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) is ready to canvas in help of the NDA.
Sanjay Shirsat, the spokesperson for the Shiv Sena made the announcement on Wednesday.
“There was a chance of vote division which might have resulted in us (NDA alliance) barely lacking our goal to win 45 plus seats in Maharashtra. Now, we will certainly obtain our goal,” Shirsat instructed reporters.
Tamil Nadu enters closing leg of campaigning
The entire 39 seats in Tamil Nadu head for polls within the first section, which is only a week away from now.
The state might be carefully watched within the days to return for the discourse shaping up. The ruling DMK and its allies had received 38 of the 39 seats within the 2019 polls and this time, the BJP hopes to make a breakthrough within the state.
P Vaidyanathan Iyer writes that the BJP is hoping to cement caste identification – by reaching out to OBC teams such because the Vanniyars — alongside non secular identification within the state. Whether or not that can repay in Tamil Nadu, the place the DMK is a formidable problem and the BJP has by no means traditionally had a presence, stays unclear for the time being.
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Nadda’s schedule
In the meantime, BJP president JP Nadda will tackle a rally in Port Blair. The lone Lok Sabha seat of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands will go to the polls within the first section on April 19.
The BJP’s Bishnu Pada Ray is within the fray and can struggle incumbent Congress MP Kuldeep Rai Sharma.
Ray and Sharma have lengthy been rivals within the seat. Ray was first elected to the Lok Sabha from the constituency in 1999 when he defeated Sharma. He once more received in 2009 and 2014.
Within the 2019 elections, the BJP had fielded Vishal Jolly, and Sharma had defeated Jolly by a slender margin of 1,407 votes.
—With PTI inputs
