Politics

In an interview to News18, BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia says the upcoming bypoll in Madhya Pradesh is not a prestige issue, but a question of development and progress.

Noting that his son and BJP state vice president B Y Vijayendra has been camping in Sira for the past three days, leading the election campaign there, he said he was confident that the party's prospects were bright in the assembly segment.

In an interview to editor-in-chief Rahul Joshi, Shah spoke on a range of topics, including the Bihar elections, the dispute at the border with China, the contentious farmers bills, the outrage surrounding actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death, among others.

In August, the Centre gave two options to the states to borrow either Rs 97,000 crore from a special window facilitated by the Reserve Bank of India or Rs 2.35 lakh crore from the market.

Khushbu Sundar had first sparked off rumours of rift with the Congress in July when she backed the BJP-ruled Centre’s new National Education Policy, inviting the ire of her party’s Tamil Nadu unit who accused her of "indiscipline".

Through the day in Siliguri, Amit Shah is expected to attend party meetings, meet prominent citizens, and interact with various stakeholders from the region.

Pradyumnsinh Jadeja, Brijesh Merja, JV Kakadiya, Akshay Patel, and Jitu Chaudhary — the five who had joined the BJP in June this year after resigning from the Congress will contest Gujarat bypolls.

The BJP MLA led by Sudip Roy Barman, claim to have support of at least two more MLAs in the house, which has 36 BJP MLAs out of 60.

Kanshi Ram, who died on this day in 2006 at the age of 72, had founded the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in 1984.

Gowala is a party MLA from Lakhipur in Barak Valley of the state. He was allegedly hobnobbing with the BJP for some time.

The nominations will be scrutinised on October 17 and the last date for withdrawal of candidature is October 19, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) S K Lohani said.

The party is holding meetings at all district levels with five top party leaders in every district working out the modalities of the campaign.

Karnataka's Sira and Rajarajeshwari Nagar Assembly segments are also going for bypolls on November 3.

The BJP on Wednesday released a list of two candidates for the first phase of the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections.

There are 44 assembly seats in Jangalmahal including 12 seats in Bankura, nine in Purulia, 19 in West Midnapore and four in Jhargram including Gopiballavpur, Jhargram, Binpur and Nayagram.

The poser from the NCP, a partner in the ruling coalition in Maharashtra, came in the backdrop of news reports about existence of a large numer of fake social media accounts.