Going by Amit Shah's speech at a rally in Nanded, BJP will likely campaign mainly on Operation Sindoor for local body polls, which will be like a mini assembly election.
Independent candidates won 353 of the 411 seats. Major political parties contested in only a fraction of the seats and Congress didn't field any candidate on its party symbol.
Local leaders have accused state and Union ministers, including Faggan Kulaste and Prahlad Patel, of putting factions above party interests. MP BJP gen secy ‘aware of complaints’.
BJP gave tickets to as many as 380 Muslim candidates for local body polls, and Muslim BJP candidates defeated Hindu Congress candidates in at least 25 wards.
BJP has made much of ‘lotus blooming in every nook and corner’ of Tamil Nadu after getting 5.4% vote share in urban local body polls, but analysts say it has a way to go.
SC cites lack of empirical data, directs state election body not to act on state backward class commission’s report. Seats reserved for OBCs to be treated as 'general'.
Following its clean sweep in the first phase last month, BJP won all 31 district panchayats, 70 out of 81 municipalities and was way ahead of Congress in 231 taluka panchayats.
According to a study in 21 cities, not even a third of all booth-level officers could be contacted based on the phone numbers made available by the Election Commission.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
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