During the hearing of the Hathras case, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court asked the UP government that if the SP was suspended in the light of this incident, then why was the DM kept there? Whereas the DM’s role in the overnight funeral of the victim is being considered suspicious. ”With this, the investigation intensified that who in the Yogi government is the one who is saving the DM? Special sources claim that in this case, a prominent officer of Yogi had called the DM at night and asked him to end the matter. It is said that only after receiving a call from Lucknow, the DM gave the SP such a command, and the poor SP became a scapegoat.

In order to give an edge to the possibilities of the NDA alliance in Bihar, now PM Modi himself is taking over the reins of campaigning there. Modi will hold 12 rallies in Bihar, of which 3 rallies are proposed in the first phase. Apart from this, more than 4 lakh smartphone warriors will promote Modi’s speeches across the state. The BJP is taking the Bihar election very seriously, which is probably why Modi and Nitish started announcing small and big projects through their virtual rallies five days before the Bihar election dates were announced. The PM had already understood the implications of the Bihar election call when he had announced ‘Jai Siyaram’ instead of ‘Jai Shri Ram’ while laying the foundation stone for the construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya since people from Mithilanchal have deep-rooted beliefs in Mata Sita. It is said that the PM had tried to touch the same sentiments of the Bihari people, apart from heartily praising the martyrdom of 16 of the 20 Bihar regiments martyred in the Galwan Valley, the construction of AIIMS in Darbhanga, and the construction of Kameshwar Chauppal in Bihar can be considered as part of this thinking of the PM.

If the worries of the Chief Minister of Jharkhand Hemant Soren are to be considered, then his government is under threat. Sources associated with Congress say that just a few days ago Hemant spoke to Rahul Gandhi and urged him to speak one-to-one with Congress MLAs of the state. The Chief Minister of Jharkhand is afraid that the BJP is luring the 15 Congress MLAs to carry out its ‘Operation Lotus’ in the state. The state has a government consisting of 28 MLAs of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, led by Hemant Soren, 15 of the Congress, 1 each of the RJD, NCP, and CPIL, while in response the opposition has 26 of the BJP, 2 of the AJSU and 2 Independent MLAs. By-election is being held on Bermo assembly constituency after the death of Congress MLA Rajendra Singh from Covid-19 who was the sitting MLA. Moreover, since Hemant Soren won 2 seats in the state, he has left the Dumka seat, and a by-election is happening there too. Sources reveal that after Soren’s warning, RPN Singh and Ahmed Patel are talking to the state Congress MLAs one by one and trying to allay their concerns. Congress knows that it is not in its power to defeat ‘Saffron Chanakya’ in a game of political manipulation. Otherwise, in 18 states where assembly elections were held between 2014 and 2019, the BJP was able to come to power only in 2 states of UP and Gujarat with an absolute majority. While the BJP could for governments either with the coalition or by toppling existing governments and though, the same effort took place in Rajasthan, it did not succeed there.

The removal of four general secretaries i.e. Ram Madhav, Muralidhar Rao, Anil Jain, and Saroj Pandey from the new team of BJP president JP Nadda is not a normal occurrence. Ram Madhav was equally powerful as Bhupendra Yadav in the old team as general secretary, Muralidhar Rao, it is being said, has been removed on the basis of his non-performance in carrying out the responsibility of Tamil Nadu where BJP has no prospects. It was more or less the same in Rao’s home state of Andhra. Anil Jain used to be close to Ramlal, is said to have received the patronage of Krishna Gopal, a prominent Sangh leader, but it is said that his complaint about some cases in Haryana had reached the PM, due to which he suffered. Saroj Pandey is said to have received the patronage of Saudan Singh, and ever since the demand of Saudan Singh has decreased in the Sangh, the stars of Saroj Pandey have also faded a bit. There was a discussion of appointments on four vacant seats in the party’s parliamentary board, which were vacant after the death of Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, and Anant Kumar and Venkaiah Naidu’s vice-presidency. It is heard that Nirmala Sitharaman can be brought to the seat of Sushma Swaraj from the women’s quota. The party’s general secretary BL Santosh was instrumental in the formation of Nadda’s new team who got CT Ravi, a state minister in the Karnataka government, and made him the national general secretary, and Bengaluru South MP Tejashwi Surya as the president of the BJP Yuva Morcha. But both of them are fierce Hinduist faces, which shows that the BJP can contest the next elections in Karnataka only on the basis of the Hindu-Muslim divide. BL Santosh is an engineer by profession, has been an old RSS pracharak and Mysore of Karnataka, Shimoga, and Bengaluru have been his areas of workings. He has a good grasp on the English language. He wanted to reward CT Ravi, who is also the tourism minister of the Yeddyurappa government, for the role in the ‘Rayat Sangh movement’. Anant Kumar had brought Tejasvi Surya to the party, but BL Santosh adopted him when he was not there.

Once considered the most powerful general secretary in the BJP organization, Ram Madhav’s departure from JP Nadda’s new team is surprising, however, Madhav supporters argue that the PM is going to include him in his cabinet. At the same time, there are people from the other stream who are saying that these days PM is extremely angry with Ram Madhav. There are many reasons for this outrage. A Gulf country ambassador met PM and complained about Madhav to him. When Ram Madhav was in Assam a few days ago, he announced Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal as the CM face in the upcoming election, due to which Hemant Biswa Sarma got so annoyed that he refused to contest the next election. To convince him the PM himself had to take the initiative and proposed to include him in his cabinet. The PM is also believed to have disliked the move by Ram Madhav when he met a businessman close to Madhu Koda to topple Hemant Soren’s government in Jharkhand and there were talks of some transactions. Is this the only reason that Ram Madhav has started showing his rebellious attitude? In his article published in the Indian Express newspaper on Gandhi Jayanti on 2 October, Ram Madhav has openly expressed his views, and has written- ‘ Gandhi respected his critics while the dictator did not tolerate opposition. They live in their cocoons, surrounded by men and henchmen, the same story was repeated from Hitler to Stalin. These signs are bigger and Ram Madhav’s intentions are even greater.

Arnab Goswami, who has awakened the ‘saffron India’ with his firebrand and aggressive mannerisms from news studio, is going to get the reward for his oratory skills. If sources are to be believed, he can be brought to the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat, and it is said that this proposal has got the approval of the BJP top leadership as well. Interestingly, Amit Shah and JP Nadda had given their consent for Naresh Aggarwal and Agarwal was believed to be in the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh. It is said that Shah and Nadda hoped that with Naresh Aggarwal been given a Rajya Sabha seat, the Baniya votes may fall in BJP’s kitty in UP, but at the last time PM Modi put forward the name of Zafar Islam. Modi wanted to give a big political message with his move in which he was very successful.

There has been a lot of news on social media for some time that preparations have been made to divide Uttar Pradesh (UP) into three parts i.e Uttar Pradesh, Bundelkhand and Purvanchal. While Lucknow will remain the capital of UP, Prayagraj has been selected for being the capital of Bundelkhand, and for the capital of Purvanchal, Gorakhpur has been shortlisted. The list of officers of these alleged gazetted states was also circulating in social media. When the matter gained public ire, the UP Chief Minister’s information adviser Mrityunjay Kumar had to give a statement that the government had no such plan. But reliable sources say that to control the growing influence and stature of UP CM Yogi Adityanath, the Central Government is considering such a proposal and if it is agreed between the BJP and the RSS, then this proposal will be given the green signal before the UP Assembly elections 2022 so that Yogi can be kept under control.

RCP Singh, who is called the ‘right hand’ of Nitish Kumar, is upset with him these days. His resentment is such that when Nitish was scheduled to have talks with BJP national president JP Nadda about seat sharing for Bihar, RCP quietly took a flight to Delhi. In that meeting with Nitish, Lallan Singh, who is considered to be a staunch opponent of RCP, was involved. When Nitish Kumar started his virtual rally, RCP could not be seen in it. But experts say that it will not be easy for Nitish to ignore RCP. As RCP is a Rajya Sabha MP he also frequents to Delhi, where he is the point man for the work of coordinating between JDU and the central leadership of BJP. Moreover, seated in Delhi, he is also embodying a big, long-standing dream of Nitish as well. He is also proficient in electoral management, and also manages election fund for JDU. Since he himself has been a bureaucrat, he also has a good hold in the bureaucracy of the state and holds considerable power in the transfer and posting of bureaucrats in the state. But, what is the reason for RCP’s displeasure? Recently, well-known leaders from Congress and other parties have started joining JDU and they are being promised of tickets in the assembly elections. Lallan Singh, Ashok Chaudhary, and Neeraj Kumar were the most active in the race to include these MLAs in JDU. For example, RCP promised to give the ticket to Shweta Vishwas, an old acquaintance from Bhumihar caste, from Paliganj seat of Bihar, but in the meantime, Jayavardhan, grandson of Bihar’s Yadav leader Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav, was brought into the party and Paliganj seat was promised to him for the upcoming assembly election. Another seat is Barbigha, from where Congress MLA Sudarshan has been promised a JDU ticket for joining the party, while RCP had promised to give the ticket to someone else from this seat. The third seat is the Kesariya seat in West Champaran where RCP promised a ticket to former MLA Maheshwari Singh who came in JDU from LJP, but now Nitish will field Shalini Mishra, daughter of former CPI MP late Kamla Mishra Madhukar. Experts say that only a few days ago when Nitish went there to unveil the statue of Kamla Mishra Madhukar, he had promised Shalini that she would contest from there on JDU ticket. It seems that Nitish is confident of this move as he believes that by doing so the cadre votes of CPI may also shift towards JDU.

The three ordinances on agriculture and farmers had come on June 3, but the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) took a long time to hear the conscience and screams of the farmers of the state, in fact until these ordinances were brought in the Lok Sabha, the Akalis did not realize that this issue is going to affect the politics of Punjab to such a scale. There are more than 20 lakh small and big farmers in Punjab, 3 lakh mandi laborers and about 28 thousand registered ‘Aadhtiyas’, for whom these ordinances are nothing short of an alarm bell. SAD was in support of these ordinances till one month ago, but what happened suddenly that broke the friendship of the past 20 years and Harsimrat Kaur Badal had to resign from the Modi cabinet? Between the Akalis and the BJP, tussle started to appear with the formation of the 17th Lok Sabha, when the SAD seat in the Lok Sabha, which was reserved for the front row, was shifted a few rows back. Sukhbir Badal and Harsimrat spoke about the BJP top leadership and even pleaded with the Lok Sabha Speaker, but it did not work. As long as Arun Jaitley was present, he acted as a dialogue bridge between the BJP and the Akali Dal, the Akalis have suffered the most because of his absence. Since long, the BJP has been wanting to do its own politics in Punjab. The assembly elections are to be held in Punjab in 2022, so till then, BJP wants to strengthen its organization there. For some time, the BJP had started growing closer to the rebel leader of the Akali Dal – Sukhvir Singh Dhindsa- a move that the Badal family did not like. The Shiromani Akali Dal’s worst performance in the last assembly elections was when it won just 15 seats out of the total 117 of the state and the Jat vote bank also slipped out of its hands, while the BJP has been proactive in the Hindu and Sikh voters, another point which upset Badal. Now the Akali Dal wants to return to its hardcore politics again, for which they too are seeing this as the most suitable time.

The saffron ‘anchor’ isn’t roaring ‘Uddhav your day are limited’ for nothing, the countdown for the Mahaghadi government led by Uddhav Thackeray has started in Maharashtra, and this time the house will be set on fire. Last week, NCP leader Ajit Pawar went to inaugurate a hospital in Pimpri Chinchwad, Pune. Just think, who was sharing the stage with him? Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. This means Ajit Pawar is still in love with the BJP. He is said to still have the support of 15-16 MLAs within the NCP. Ajith’s son Parth Pawar is now openly expressing his sentiments against the thinking of his grandfather Sharad Pawar, which started when Parth supported the BJP line and demanded a CBI inquiry into the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput. Sources reveal that now the command of the entire game in Maharashtra has come into the hands of the BJP, and the rule of Sharad Pawar is at stake. Either they now openly support the BJP to form the government in the state, or they should be ready for a split in their party, in both cases, Uddhav will lose the chair!