The BJP has started giving a new edge to its election strategy in Madhya Pradesh. After the opinion polls in the state were found unsatisfactory, the party high command has approved a new strategy. Maybe the BJP will give them financial help so that they can defeat the authorized Congress candidate. Some strong candidates can also be made to stand against the Congress candidate. There is a situation of rebellion in the BSP in the Bundelkhand region and the BJP has already started identifying the rebel BSP leaders. It is believed that the BJP can equip them and field them against the Congress candidates.

Sources reveal that the BJP may field more than 50 current or retired bureaucrats in the 2024 elections. Sources also reveal that a team has been formed under the leadership of BJP’s Organization General Secretary BL Santosh and party General Secretary Vinod Tawde, who have completed the identification of such popular bureaucrats by roaming across the country. Some names are emerging in this episode, one of them is that of former IAS officer Parveen Singh Pardesi, who is currently gracing the NITI Aayog. He may get BJP ticket from Vidarbha region of Maharashtra. Radheshyam Mopalwar, who became popular from Pani Panchayat in Marathwada, is said to be the choice of Eknath Shinde and preparations are on to field him in the electoral fray. On the other hand, Parveen Singh Pardesi’s closeness to Devendra Fadnavis is well known. Apart from this, former Mumbai Police Commissioner Parambir Singh can be fielded from any Gujjar-dominated seat in Haryana or Rajasthan. Alternatively, he may also be fielded from UP or Maharashtra.

Recently, BSP chief Mayawati got the statues of Dr. Ambedkar and Kanshi Ram removed from her party office in Lucknow and shifted them to her official residence. Along with this, Mayawati has also ordered to make her own statue. It is said that Maya Memsaheb’s statue will be placed right in the middle of the statues of Dr Ambedkar and Kanshi Ram. The argument behind the removal of these two idols from the party headquarters is that ‘Behenji’ does not go to the party office these days and she does all the work of the BSP from her official residence. However, opposition to the party supremo’s decision to remove the statue has started in the party itself and Kunwar Fateh Bahadur, who was once one of Behenji’s special confidantes, has sparked this protest. On the other hand, Mayawati can often be heard saying to BSP leaders and workers these days that ‘Baba Saheb and Kanshi Ram ji used to say that the upliftment of Dalits can happen only when they remain with the government.’ Is this declaration of Maywati an indication that she is willing to go with the BJP in the 2024 elections?

As the time for the 2024 general elections is coming closer, the saffron politics is also taking new forms everyday. Ammunition for change in political atmosphere is burning, so BJP has already started its permutation and combination for each and every seat of Lok Sabha. Many new rules and regulations are being framed, like the ministers who have been decorated in the Modi government with Rajya Sabha quota have been asked to find a suitable seat for themselves in their respective home states, from where they can contest the next Lok Sabha elections. When Narendra Modi became the sole face of BJP in 2014, he had decided that no party leader would get Rajya Sabha term more than 2 times. Former Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi also did not get the next chance because of his formula. Another formula of Modi made place in saffron headlines that leaders above 75 will not get ministerial post. Under this formula, Yeddyurappa had to leave the post of CM in Karnataka. BJP strategists are already busy in brainstorming meetings regarding 2024. The echoes emanating from these meetings are also being heard clearly that more than one-third of the sitting MPs may be denied tickets in big Hindi heartland states like UP, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh. At the same time, some ministers and legislators of the UP government can also get tickets for the Lok Sabha elections. These names include leaders like Jitin Prasad, Rajeshwar Singh, Brajesh Pathak, Keshav Prasad Maurya and Dinesh Pratap Singh in this list. Former ED officer Rajeshwar Singh is said to be a favorite of Amit Shah. Rajeshwar Singh is said to be eyeing Sultanpur seat, from where currently Maneka Gandhi is the sitting MP.

It is said that nothing is permanent in politics, neither enmity nor friendship. The Modi government, which has been handling Jaganmohan Reddy’s tantrums for so many years, is now showing a changed attitude regarding Andhra. Its fragrance was realized when Union Home Minister Amit Shah, in a public meeting in the South, for the first time took a dig at Andhra CM Jaganmohan Reddy and said, “The Jaganmohan government has not done any work in the state except corruption. Jagan’s cadre loots the money Modi government of Delhi sends to Andhra.” In fact, there was an alliance between Naidu’s TDP and the BJP in the 2014 general election, in which the BJP won 3 seats. But in 2018, Chandrababu broke his ties with the BJP. But now for the last one year, Chandrababu has been coming to Delhi in the struggle to regain his lost ground in his home state and has been doing rounds of BJP’s top leaders. Chandrababu’s TDP openly supported Draupadi Murmu, the NDA’s presidential candidate, in this presidential election as well. BJP wants to overcome its weakening mass base in South India, so if it gets Chandrababu’s support in this way, it can present a serious challenge to Chandrasekhar Rao in the coming Telangana assembly elections also because Telugu Desam has won some seats in Telangana, but it still has mass influence. In May next year, along with the Lok Sabha elections, assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh will also be held, where the BJP wants to repeat the history of 2014 by getting Chandrababu’s support.

More than 6 months have passed since Mallikarjun Kharge became the President of the Congress, but he still has not been able to form his new team. It is said that the 47 members of Kharge’s steering committee are very active behind this, who do not want the party president to ignore their utility with the announcement of his new team. Kharge is also under pressure from Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi to announce his new team as soon as possible. It is said that for the last 2-3 days, Kharge is engaged in a marathon meeting with his core team, so that he can give a face to his new team. Sources reveal that preparations are on to give Bhupinder Singh Hooda a ‘freehand’ in the Haryana elections. Hooda is lobbying to give the charge of western UP to his son Deepender Hooda. Former Uttarakhand CM Harish Rawat, who has expressed his desire to retire from politics, wants to remain a part of the working committee. Both the old and important leaders of Madhya Pradesh Congress i.e. Kamal Nath and Digvijay Singh have crossed 75. The party wants to bring forward its young and new faces, but for this the two leaders do not seem ready. The name of Jitu Patwari, a young leader from Madhya Pradesh itself, is coming to the fore, and Kharge wants to assign him an important responsibility in his team.

Recently, a purported letter from Congress’ ‘powerful’ General Secretary KC Venugopal reached UP State Congress President Brijlal Khabri in Hindi, in which Venugopal is talking about canceling the appointments of executive district presidents of Jhansi and Jaunpur. But Khabri had a doubt about this letter from the beginning, so he did not take any action on the recommendations of this letter of Venugopal. Usually whenever any letter is sent from Venugopal’s side, it is in English. It is said that Venugopal does not know Hindi and in such a situation, it is told that the other ie Khabri does not know English properly, so how can a communication bridge be established between the two? This is the biggest question. Anyway, after sending a letter, Venugopal’s office also calls up the concerned person, but Khabri did not receive any call this time. Khabri kept thinking that this letter sent to him was forged, so the posts of the working presidents of Hansi and Jaunpur are still intact.

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A new marathon of the opposition unity has started, for which Chief Minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar has become the chief architect. The first meeting of the opposition unit is called in Patna on June 23, in which both Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge can attend representing the Congress. Apart from this, senior opposition leaders like Mamata Banerjee, Sharad Pawar, Akhilesh Yadav, Hemant Soren and MK Stalin have also agreed to attend this meeting. Only the issue of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Telangana CM KCR is still stuck. Actually, it is the Congress party which does not want him to be seen on the same stage with these two leaders. Assembly elections are also due in Telangana in the coming few months, so the Congress fears that if it is seen sharing a common platform with KCR, then its votes in the state may be transferred to KCR’s party ‘BRS’. The emphasis of the Congress was to convene this meeting in Shimla, but when Nitish explained that this new alliance of the opposition unity should start from the land of Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan, who shook the stove of the then ruling Delhi with his moral force, the Congress leaders accepted. Congress also wants that the new alliance that is taking shape to replace the UPA should meet at regular intervals. If sources are to be believed, after Patna, the next meeting of this alliance can be held in any Congress-ruled state like Himachal Pradesh or Rajasthan. Sources also reveal that Sharad Pawar could be made the president of this new alliance and Nitish could be its convenor.

Afzal Ansari, who was a Member of Parliament from Ghazipur Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh, lost his membership of the Lok Sabha when he was sentenced to 4 years by the court in a case. Now gearing up for Ghazipur by-election, Jammu and Kashmir Governor Manoj Sinha, who won the 2014 Lok Sabha elections from Ghazipur Lok Sabha seat and lost the 2019 elections from here, wants to get his daughter-in-law Deepali or son Anubhav Sinha a BJP ticket to retain his hold on this seat. On the other hand, UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath wants to field Radhemohan Singh, his cousin and prominent leader of SP, from here. Ghazipur used to be a Bhumihar majority seat, but in the delimitation, two major Bhumihar seats here were included in Mohammadabad and Jahurabad Ballia and now Rajput and Yadav votes have become decisive in Ghazipur. Anyway, Yogi argues that Rajputs alone have a cut of 19 percent Yadav votes and 10 percent Muslim votes in Ghazipur. Chandrashekhar’s son and Rajya Sabha MP Neeraj Shekhar is also eyeing this seat. The claim to this seat is also of Virendra Singh Mast.