Rahul Gandhi has entrusted the election management of Karnataka and Telangana states and its continuous analysis to election strategist Sunil Kanugolu. Though the opinion of several senior Congress leaders was not so positive about Kanugolu, Rahul has expressed his full faith in Kanugolu. Earlier Kanugolu has also worked for Akalis but Shiromani Akali Dal could not get any desired success from Kanugolu’s experiences. But this time Kanugolu is in full form. He called Karnataka State President DK Shivakumar recently and told him that ‘there is a meeting regarding Karnataka, you should come to Delhi’. On this Shivakumar reportedly told Kanugolu that thsi meeting would last for nearly one hour whereas if he travels to Delhi, his whole day gets wasted. He further asked as to why cant they talk on ‘Zoom Call’ only. This did not go down well with Kanugolu who complaint about Shivakumar’s behaviour to Rahul and the Gandhi-schion immediately called Shivakumar and told him that ‘we have no compulsion to accept everything you say, you should have at least listened to Kanugolu’. Shivakumar immediately replied to Rahul, “You talk to me like this, while there is Sonia ji who says – Shiv you are like my son. After all what should I believe to be true. You are seeing the condition of the Congress today, yet I am standing with the party like a rock, will I get this fruit for being with party?” Rahul was stunned on Shivakumar’s reply. Now, it is being heard that these days an old leader of Karnataka Congress KJ George i.e. Kelacandra Joseph George has started getting more attention in the Gandhi court. George,who also represent 2% of the state’s Christian population, has also worked closely with Indira and Rajiv. And now, Rahul has given him the opportunity by making him a member of his Bharat Jodo Yatra which will start from October 2 and will pass 16 states. Recently, George was called to Delhi where he had an important meeting with Sonia and Rahul. It is being heard that KJ George can be made the National General Secretary of Congress. Is this an alarm bell for DK?

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The Congress, which is fighting the battle to save its existence, is also well aware about the ‘warrior’ standing in front of it in the political battle of this changing era, what is his skill and why is he able to give the Congress a good beating time and again. The rival warrior has made the media his cherry, which fights half the battle for his side. Ever since Jairam Ramesh took over the charge of media management of Congress, he has been constantly trying to correct the party’s media image, but his own warlords are failing. Sonia Gandhi’s first appearance was to be held in the ED office on Thursday and Congress had pre-determined the outline of the nationwide demonstration. Congress’s communications in-charge Vineet Poonia alerting the media informs Congress Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha MPs will march on foot from Parliament House to Gurdwara Rakabganj to protest against ED’s questioning of Sonia Gandhi. It was also said that this march of MPs would be led by Rahul Gandhi himself. Actually there are many gates in the Parliament House, the Rakabganj Gurudwara road can be reached from inside the Parliament itself. Then Poonia told reporters that this march reach at gate number four. The entire media and TV cameras were ready at all gate number four and suddenly the media personnel got the news that the march was leaving from gate number one. When all the media people ran to gate number one, they saw that Rahul Gandhi is absent from that march. Rahul went straight to 10 Janpath in his car, from where he reached the ED office in a separate car while Sonia and Priyanka left for the ED office together in the same car. The visual media kept waiting but they could not capture those happy moments in their cameras. Therefore, now questions are being asked in not just Congress circles but even in the media if this is the failure of the media management of the Congress?

Due to the skyrocketing inflation, the Congress leadership decided that their MPs would protest in front of the statue of Mahatma Gandhi located in the Parliament complex. The time for this demonstration was fixed at 10 in the morning, as the Parliament starts functioning from eleven o’clock. But the MPs who reached there on time were just a handful, they were also senior party leaders like P. Chidambaram, Mallikarjun Kharge etc. Jairam Ramesh himself was standing outside waiting for the arrival of Congress MPs, and was also scolding them. Yet the counting of Congress MPs could not be completed till eleven o’clock.

It was not a secret that neither Mamata Banerjee, nor the then Governor of West Bengal Jagdeep Dhankhar, developed any amicable relations with each other. But when an important meeting took place in Darjeeling this time between Assam Chief Minister Hemant Biswa Sarma and Mamata Banerjee, since then Mamta’s attitude towards BJP and NDA has loosened a bit.Only after this important meeting Trinamool announced that ‘It will stay away from the voting process for the post of Vice President (in which Dhankhar is in the fray as an NDA candidate) i.e. TMC will not participate in the voting. Whereas Dhankar had laid serious allegations on Mamata and her government like excessive appeasement, communal patronage and extortion by the mafia syndicate. At the same time, Mamata has been continuously pretending to strengthen the opposition unity for a long time. Didi alleged that “Congress did not take her opinion in deciding the name of Margaret Alva for the post of Vice President.” Anyway, in December last year, Mamata had questioned the entire existence of the UPA and asked ‘What is this UPA? Then she herself gave the answer – ‘There is no UPA anywhere. Is this a constitutional compulsion?’

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The Bhupesh Baghel government of Chhattisgarh has also now come under the BJP’s target. After a year and a half from now, assembly elections are to be held in Chhattisgarh, in which Baghel is dreaming of returning to power on the basis of his works. But only his old friends are involved in destabilizing his government. Once the pair of Baghel and Singhdeo was called ‘Jai-Veeru’ in Chhattisgarh. Three and a half years ago, when the Congress government came to power in Chhattisgarh, there was an agreement between TS Singhdeo and Bhupesh Baghel for the post of CM for two and a half years. But when Singhdeo’s turn came, political circumstances snatched this opportunity from his hands. An angry Singhdeo has issued a four-page letter and announced that he will quit his ministerial post. Baghel had claimed that no MLA of Chhattisgarh Congress would cross-vote in this presidential election, but in support of Draupadi Murmu, six of his MLAs did cross-voting, which is the beginning of rebellion under Singhdeo’s leadership. Sensing the urgency of the occasion, the BJP has brought a no-confidence motion against the Baghel government, which is to be discussed on July 27. In the present assembly of Chhattisgarh, Congress has 71 MLAs, BJP has 14, Janata Congress Chhattisgarh has 3 and BSP has 2 MLAs. In this sense also, Baghel’s chair does not see any danger at the moment.