The chiefs of two BJP allies in UP, Apna Dal and NISHAD party, met Amit Shah in Delhi Thursday, reportedly to remind the party of promises made to them.
Fielding complaints about UP's handling of Covid crisis from its own party workers, BJP is trying to ensure it is ready to secure a second term when assembly polls take place next year.
The results are in variance from usual trends where the party in power at the state usually wins the panchayat elections. Experts see rural distress as reason for BJP faltering.
The apex court also ordered that govt officials, candidates & their agents will have to produce Covid negative RT-PCR tests before entering counting centres.
Principal Secretary, Home Department said high-speed data services will continue in Ganderbal & Udhampur districts, while internet speed will be restricted to 2G only in other places.
RJD, once a prominent representative of Mandal politics, now finds itself in a political era where welfare, good governance, and new aspirations are overshadowing old caste equations.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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