EC lost its independence, time to review how it is appointed: Congress

The remarks came after Election Commission curtailed electioneering for nine Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal by 20 hours

LokSabha Elections 2019:Blaming the Election Commission for losing its validity and autonomy, the Congress on Thursday said opportunity has arrived to audit the procedure of the survey board’s arrangement.

Congress’ main representative Randeep Surjewala said the request disallowing crusading in West Bengal by 20 hours is a “dull spot” on India’s majority rule government and organizations like the Election Commission.

“Decision Commission has totally surrendered its Constitutional obligation under Art 324 to guarantee level playing field, other than nullifying the fair treatment under Article 14 and 21 of India’s Constitution,” he told columnists.

“The opportunity has arrived to survey the procedure of arrangement of Election Commission,” he stated, requiring a national discussion on the issue.

The Congress, a mindful ideological group, has never thrown outlandish slanders on the activities of Constitutional bodies, Surjewala said.

The gathering additionally blamed the EC for woking for the BJP. “This seems, by all accounts, to be Election Commission’s separating blessing to Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi and BJP, so as to guarantee that the two pre reported race encourages of Shri Modi at Mathurapur and Dum in evening/evening today are not hit by the EC’s organization,” a public statement issued by the Congress expressed.

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Modi will rule for 25 years, Lohia’s prediction will be realised: Yogi

The UP CM said that the BJP will win more seats than it did in 2014 as it has worked for the poor

LokSabha Elections 2019:Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday conjured Ram Manohar Lohia to recommend that Narendra Modi is set to run the nation for some more years as a result of his attention on giving toilets and fuel to poor people.

In a meeting to PTI, the main priest communicated certainty that the Bharatiya Janata Party will win 74 of the 80 Lok Sabha situates in his state, three more than it packed away without anyone else in 2014.

Adityanath said the communist chief’s fantasy has been satisfied by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP will shape the administration with a reasonable greater part after the 2019 races.

“Dr Lohia told Shrimati Indira Gandhi ji in Parliament that this nation lives in the towns. The day each needy individual in this nation has a can in his home and his fuel necessities are met, whoever is the PM at that point will lead for at any rate 25 years,” he said.

He said Lohia tended to the then head administrator around 1966 or 1967 however it is just since his longing has worked out as expected.

“I think there are many individuals who do legislative issues for the sake of Dr Lohia however his fantasy has been satisfied by PM Modi,” Adityanath said.

He said this race will be the first to break all gauges around standing, religion, area and vote banks.

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Tortured in jail, won’t apologise: BJP activist on sharing Mamata’s photo

‘I don’t have any regrets. I have not done anything for which I will have to apologise,’ Priyanka Sharma said

LokSabha Elections 2019:BJP youth wing extremist Priyanka Sharma, who left prison on Wednesday in the wake of being captured for posting a transformed picture of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Facebook, said she would not apologize.

“I don’t have any second thoughts. I have not done anything for which I should apologize,” Sharma told a question and answer session at the BJP office here.

She was discharged at 9.40 am from the Alipore correctional facility following five days following a Supreme Court request.

The BJP extremist claimed that she was bothered and tormented inside prison. “I was tormented in the correctional facility. Indeed, even the guard pushed me yesterday. I disclosed to them I am not a criminal that you are pushing me into the prison room this way,” she said. “They acted all around discourteously. The condition inside was awful.”

Nearby BJP pioneers and her mom were available outside the prison in south Kolkata when she was discharged.

“Me and my family has experienced much anguish which I figure I don’t merit,” Sharma told PTI over telephone.

Her sibling, Rajiv Sharma, claimed that the correctional facility specialists disregarded the Supreme Court request by not discharging her on Tuesday.

“When we went to the correctional facility yesterday, authorities said they required a printed copy of the request. I am in Delhi and it required investment to get the printed copy of the request and in this manner the postponement. They didn’t keep the Supreme Court request of prompt discharge,” he said

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EC to hold review meeting before phase 7; West Bengal might be focus

The review meeting will be held via video conference and will be attended by poll officials and observers for constituencies going to polls on the 19th

LokSabha Elections 2019:The Election Commission will on Wednesday hold an audit meeting with eyewitnesses and state boss constituent officers for the last period of Lok Sabha surveys on May 19.

The audit meeting which will be held by means of video gathering, comes multi day after BJP and Trinamool Congress specialists took on pitched conflicts in the city of Kolkata amid a huge street appear by the saffron party president Amit Shah.

“Since nine out of 59 parliamentary voting public going for survey on May 19 are from West Bengal, it is regular that onlookers and survey authorities from the state will likewise take an interest,” an authority said.

He, in any case, would not say whether the attention will be on West Bengal.

While Trinamool Congress has looked for a gathering with the Commission on the issue, a Bharatiya Janata Party appointment asked the Election Commission on Tuesday to bar West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from crusading in the state and affirmed that “established hardware” has crumpled there.

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Who’s with whom? Parties seek partners as Lok Sabha election nears end

The seven-phase election started on April 11 and ends on May 19. Below is how India’s biggest parties are aligned

LokSabha Elections 2019:Prime Minist Narendra Modi’s decision alliance is certain of a second term in office however resistance groups are conversing with one another to seal a partnership, planning to topple him after general race results are declared on May 23.

The seven-stage decision began on April 11 and finishes on May 19. The following is the means by which India’s greatest gatherings are adjusted.

NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE (NDA)

BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY (BJP): Modi’s Hindu patriot BJP drives the NDA and won 282 seats in the last race five years prior. There are 545 seats in the lower place of parliament, two of which are assigned by the president from the Anglo-Indian people group.

ALL INDIA ANNA DRAVIDA MUNNETRA KAZHAGAM (AIADMK): The third-greatest gathering and Modi’s greatest accomplice in the south of the nation, the BJP’s weakest area. The AIADMK won 37 of the 40 seats it challenged the last time, yet the demise of its charming pioneer, J. Jayalalithaa, in 2016 could influence its exhibition.

SHIV SENA: The hardline Hindu gathering, situated in India’s budgetary capital Mumbai, is in an on-off association with the BJP. The gatherings fixed a coalition before this race, with the development of a Hindu sanctuary at a questionable site in the north being one of Shiv Sena’s key requests. Shiv Sena won 18 situates the last time, making it the 6th greatest gathering.

LOK JAN SHAKTI PARTY: The gathering predominantly speaks to bring down rank Hindus and won six of the seven seats it challenged the last time.

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Election 2019 may see the highest voter turnout, but will it benefit BJP?

Increased voter turnout seems to be concentrated in states where the voters have been at the forefront of the ongoing rural distress

LokSabha Elections 2019:As the decision 2019 season enters the last lap with surveying left just for one period of the seven booked, voter turnout this time around is probably going to make a record. As indicated by reports, the 2019 race is on track to accomplish record voter turnout of around 67 percent (55 – 56 million new voters with respect to 2014 general races), which would outperform the past record of 66.4 percent amid the 2014 surveys.

According to the information accessible with the Election Commission of India (ECI), voter turnout in the initial four stages remained at 69.5 percent (first stage), 69.44 percent (second stage), 68.4 percent (third stage) and 65.51 percent (fourth stage).

Electorate shrewd examination, according to a Nomura report proposes that in the initial four stages (around 69 percent of the seats), expanded voter cooperation was gathered in the key Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) bastions of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Assam and Karnataka.

“The two exceptions are Andhra Pradesh and Kerala, where voter turnout was high, yet the BJP’s prospects have generally been feeble,” the report says.

Things being what they are, will the BJP/National Democratic Alliance (NDA) advantage from this higher voter turnout or will it surrender to against incumbency?

Both hypothetical and exact investigations, as indicated by Nomura, have attempted to discover causality between voter turnout and decision results. In past Lok Sabha races, there have been hostile to incumbency results amid both high and low turnout races.

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Priyanka Gandhi takes jibe at PM Modi for his ‘cloudy weather’ theory

Priyanka further said that Modi promised a corruption-free govt but went ahead and perpetrated a “Rs 30,000 cr Rafale scam”

LokSabha Elections 2019:Congress pioneer Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Monday took a correspond at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his announcement about IAF air ships sidestepping Pakistan radars amid the Balakot air strike due to the “shady climate”.

At a roadshow in Indore’s Rajwada Chowk, the Congress chief, perusing from a bit of paper, stated: “Amid his five-year residency as the executive, Modi has just given jumlas (talk) to the general population.”

“He trusted that he won’t please individuals’ radar because of the shady climate,” said the Congress general secretary in Hindi in the midst of cheers from the group that had thronged the traffic intersection.

In a meeting circulated on Saturday, Modi had stated, “The climate was bad upon the arrival of air strike. There was a believed that sneaked in the psyches of the specialists that the day of strike ought to be changed. Be that as it may, I recommended that the mists could really enable our planes to get away from the radars.”

The Congress head additionally said that Modi guaranteed a defilement free government yet felt free to execute a “Rs 30,000 crore Rafale trick”.

“He is such a major resistance master, that only he chose that the Rafale flying machine will be fabricated by an organization that has never assembled one ever. It was given land too. Be that as it may, be it downpour or daylight, individuals came to comprehend what is reality of this present man’s legislative issues,” she asserted.

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Shah ‘denied’ permission to rally in Jadavpur: BJP to protest, move EC

BJP has also alleged that the TMC is resorting to undemocratic means even as the EC remains a mute spectator

LokSabha Elections 2019:Blaming the West Bengal government for not permitting its leader Amit Shah’s rally in Jadavpur, the BJP said on Monday that the Election Commission has turned into a “quiet onlooker” to the Trinamool Congress’ supposed undemocratic intends to focus on the saffron party.

BJP media head and Rajya Sabha MP Anil Baluni said his gathering will hold challenges and furthermore move the EC.

Shah’s rally was booked for Monday in Jadavpur, which goes to the surveys on May 19 in the last stage, however the authorization for it was denied at last by the state organization, he said.

Along these lines, the authorization for Shah’s chopper to arrive was likewise pulled back, Baluni said.

“Tragically the EC has turned into a quiet onlooker to this and furthermore utilization of brutality by the TMC in the state,” he said.

He affirmed the decision party in Bengal was utilizing undemocratic intends to focus on the BJP.

Nine seats will go to surveys in the last period of the general decision.

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Elections 2019: Why popularity is not a guarantee for winning seats

Party with fewer votes can get more seats and win elections

LokSabha Elections 2019:In the vicious decision challenge in India, ideological groups are centered around transforming cast a ballot into winning seats. The reason – history demonstrates that a gathering can shape an administration by accumulating support from only a fourth of the complete electorate.

Head administrator Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party and Rahul Gandhi’s primary restriction Congress party are attempting to raise vote shares – the level of all out votes surveyed – to support them as the nation’s race moves into its last stage.

In India’s first-past-the-post framework, with a substantial number of contenders for each seat, the victor simply needs to get enough votes to win. The individual doesn’t have to get the greater part of the famous votes. For example in 2014, Bhujan Samaj Party earned 4.2% of the votes yet neglected to win a solitary voting demographic, while the Communist Party of India attracted 0.79% of the votes and figured out how to wrest 1 situate. The BJP with 31.3% vote share won 282.

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Elections 2019: Bahuguna’s legacy, M M Joshi’s shadow loom over Allahabad

Joshi still holds a place in the city’s heart, mind and Brahmin voters in the region harbour a grudge over the ‘raw deal’ he got from the BJP

Elections:The heritage of Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna contextualizes the talk of Rita Bahuguna Joshi and the shadow of Murli Manohar Joshi lingers uneasily over the discretionary legislative issues of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Allahabad, that cast a ballot on May 12. Rita Joshi is the BJP’s Lok Sabha competitor from this renowned voting public that had chosen her dad, Hemwati Nandan in 1971 while Joshi spoke to it without a break from 1996 to 2004.

Bahuguna senior’s association with his parent party, the Congress, may have been erratic however he transformed into a pioneer in his own directly during that time when he was the Uttar Pradesh boss pastor and a focal clergyman. It’s his inheritance to Allahabad and not all that much the multi year principle of Narendra Modi at the Center or the multi year routine of Chief Minister Adityanath that themed Rita Joshi’s chalk talk. Dr Vinay Dwivedi, her political associate, stated, “Bahuguna was a self-propelled pioneer like Rita ji. He changed the substance of this city in a few different ways.” Rita is as of now a lawmaker from Lucknow Cantonment and a priest in Adityanath’s gathering yet her connection with Allahabad returns to her days as an understudy of history at the eponymous college and later as a city hall leader from the Samajwadi Party (SP). To be sure, the better piece of her political vocation has been outside the BJP, quickly in the SP and for long in the Congress, initiating a level of jealousy in the BJP’s old-clocks at her ascent in under three years.

Bahuguna senior set up the Naini Industrial Estate that opened up the work part in a vocation bone-dry zone during the ’60s despite the fact that a skeleton of its unique structure remains. He conveyed water system to the trans-Yamuna locale through channels with lift siphons. As a Congress campaigner previously, Rita’s discourse dependably started with the line, “Yeh Bahuguna ji ki dharti hai” (this is Bahuguna’s property) however in the BJP, her associates do the heritage informing. Asked who overwhelmed Allahabad’s political scene, Bahuguna or Modi, a BJP pioneer’s answer was, “Rita is the place she is a direct result of Bahuguna and we are the place we are a direct result of Modi.”

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