The coming time can be difficult for Tejashwi Yadav. The BJP is trying his best to ensure that investigating agencies make up the cases against Tejashwi in any way so that it gets stamped in the court as well and he is disqualified from contesting the elections. It is said that some officers of Bihar associated with the investigating agency had already warned Tejashwi that ‘he should get his papers in order as soon his family will be attacked’, but Tejashwi took his words as a joke. After this, RJD’s Rajya Sabha MP Manoj Jha organized a tea party in honor of Tejashwi at his home in Delhi, in which, apart from leaders of various parties, a former director of IB also attended. This former director is also from Bihar. That former director had cautioned Tejashwi only then, saying, “The entire team of CBI and ED is going to come to your house for investigation.” Tejashwi then made fun of his words by saying that ‘Pandit ji, keep in mind that we are not pandits. If they come, we will beat with sticks.”

Opposite to his cousin Rahul Gandhi, BJP leader Varun Gandhi is being a little more careful in projecting the new face of India in foreign forums. On the one hand, while Rahul Gandhi, on three other occasions, including at the University of Cambridge in London, spoke about the threat to democracy in India, Varun turned down the invitation to the Oxford Union in which he had to debate how successful India is under Modi’s leadership. This invitation was sent to Varun from the office of Oxford Union President Matthew Dick. Varun first received the invitation through an e-mail, after which Mathew’s assistant Sultan Khokhar contacted him over the phone. At a time when Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is going to London and living there with the idea that democracy in India is under threat, Varun’s refusal to speak against the Oxford Union proposal can be dismissed for many political reasons. As Varun also said in his reply to the Oxford Union, “I believe that such issues should be raised within the periphery of the country and between the policy makers here. Foreign forums are not the appropriate place for it.” In fact, Varun reiterated in his private conversation that ‘it is a form of treason to say such negative and misleading things about India on foreign soil.” And this ‘thing’ pleased his party ‘top’ too.

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The Congress may have rekindled a new wave of hope in Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal in these by-elections, but the talk of the town is about the party’s resounding defeat in the Northeast. The party expected that after Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’, the party would perform brilliantly in the three recent assembly elections in the Northeast, but its opposite happened. Anyway, the big leaders of the party including the Gandhi family did not take the elections in the Northeast seriously and did not even bother to campaign there. As a result, in Meghalaya, where the Congress won 18 out of 60 seats in the 2018 elections, this time it came down to 5. Even after alliance with the Left in Tripura, it could win only 2 seats while in Nagaland the Congress party got swept away. Now the party leaders are saying that from now on the Congress is going to put its full strength in Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh, where it is confident of forming the government. The party has left Rajasthan to Gehlot and is sure of making a comeback in Chhattisgarh.

Even as the BJP basks in the celebration of its victory in two northeastern states and is set to be part of the Conrad Sangma government in Meghalaya, the party’s performance in the recent bypolls has been worrying. Especially in Maharashtra’s Kasbapeth by-election, it had to face defeat after 27 years, and that too at a time when assembly elections are to be held here only next year. This is a Brahmin-dominated seat where Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had thrown all his might, yet the seat was wrested from the hands of the BJP by the Mahaghadi alliance. In the struggle to prove Shinde’s Shiv Sena as real, the BJP’s ground in Maharashtra has started to rupture a bit. Even though the ‘arrow and bow’ symbol has been snatched from Uddhav’s group and handed over to Shinde, Uddhav still proves to be the real shooter. Shinde’s Shiv Sena is going to embark on a yatra to show it as the real Shiv Sena, which is in a way also in response to Uddhav’s yatra. While Uddhav will go from village to village in his journey to strengthen his old ties with Thackeray loyalists i.e. real Shiv Sainiks, the Shinde faction’s real challenge will be to prove themselves as real Shiv Sainiks. The BJP top is already brainstorming for Kasbapeth, where it feels a mistake has been made in choosing the candidate – Hemant Rasne, who was defeated by 11,000 votes. But for the time being, Shinde and Fadnavis team is dominating here overall.

In the coming days, the investigating agencies may tighten the noose around former Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi Manish Sisodia. Sources say that the investigating agencies have found some strong evidence against Sisodia in the espionage case. The CBI has started preparing its latest charge sheet regarding this. In favor of Manish Sisodia, the way ‘I love you Manish Sisodia’ campaign is being sponsored among the children of government schools in Delhi, parties like BJP and Congress have attacked AAP, and said that ‘ The AAP government is playing with the feelings of innocent school children.’ CBI sources also claim that ‘Sisodia’s men are threatening the witnesses and showing them fear of the Punjab Police.’ Some leaders are also raising questions that ‘why the mastermind of the liquor scam and the manager of the party fund has been spared as this AAP leader is one who may have the most information about the matter’.

Recently, some unknown people pelted stones at Asaduddin Owaisi’s official residence on Ashok Road in New Delhi and Owaisi was so enraged by the incident that he shouted that ‘he will take out a big march of Muslims in Delhi. Soon after, the Delhi Police Commissioner called up Owaisi and said that ‘he is concerned about his safety, elaborate arrangements will be made for his safety.’ Owaisi was pleasantly surprised when he received a direct call from the country’s Home Minister Amit Shah who said, “This is wrong, the police will take immediate action on this.” Along with this, the security of Owaisi was increased within twenty-four hours, the government really expressed as to how much it cares for Owaisi.

Telangana Chief Minister KCR wants to expand his party at the national level and he is also visiting different states and is also in constant contact with non-BJP satraps as he wants to ‘be a part of the opposition unity’ and emerged as a major pivot.’ KCR is also well aware that there is a lot of enthusiasm among the people of his state about his new rise on the national stage. Sources reveal that KCR’s personal astrologer has advised him that ‘if he conducts early elections in the state, he can come back to power ‘with a bang’. September 2023 is said to be the most favorable time for the elections, while the tenure of the current assembly is till January 16, 2024. It is said that following the advice of astrologers, KCR called a meeting of his special loyalists and said, ‘You people should start preparing for the elections ahead of time.’

Recently, some unknown people pelted stones at Asaduddin Owaisi’s official residence on Ashok Road in New Delhi and Owaisi was so enraged by the incident that he shouted that ‘he will take out a big march of Muslims in Delhi. Soon after, the Delhi Police Commissioner called up Owaisi and said that ‘he is concerned about his safety, elaborate arrangements will be made for his safety.’ Owaisi was pleasantly surprised when he received a direct call from the country’s Home Minister Amit Shah who said, “This is wrong, the police will take immediate action on this.” Along with this, the security of Owaisi was increased within twenty-four hours, the government really expressed as to how much it cares for Owaisi.