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BJP’s defeat in Anta bypoll foments dissent with questions over campaign strategy

BJP’s defeat in Anta bypoll foments dissent with questions over campaign strategy

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Rajasthan CM Bhajan Lal Sharma and former Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje campaign for BJP’s Anta constituency candidate Morpal Suman during a road show ahead of the Anta Assembly bye-elections, in Baran. | Photo Credit: ANI The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s defeat in the Assembly bye-election at Anta in Rajasthan has fomented dissent with questions being raised over the party’s campaigning strategy. Party insiders feel that the senior leaders of the Hadoti region were sidelined and the ground-level realities were ignored. The Opposition Congress wrested the seat from the BJP in the bypoll result announced on November 14, when former Minister Pramod Jain defeated Morpal Suman with a margin of 15,612 votes. As the Congress became confident after its victory, the deliberations within the BJP are centred on factionalism, internal squabbles and lack of coordination among the leaders. Also Read | Triangular contest at Anta Assembly seat poses challenge to parties amid caste mobilisation Seven-time BJP MLA and a veteran leader of the Hadoti region in south-eastern Rajasthan, Pratap Singh Singhvi, has blamed former Chief Minister …

After Vasundhara Raje slams water crisis, Rajasthan official now awaits posting | Jaipur News

After Vasundhara Raje slams water crisis, Rajasthan official now awaits posting | Jaipur News

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Following criticism by former Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje over issues with drinking water supply in Jhalawar, the Rajasthan government has put the concerned official on Awaiting Posting Order (APO). As per the order accessed by The Indian Express, Deepak Kumar Jha, the Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) superintending engineer in Jhalawar, has been put on APO “in view of the complaints regarding unsatisfactory progress of Jal Jeevan Mission works in Jhalawar district; water not reaching the last mile due to lack of proper zoning system in the implemented works of JJM; not monitoring the works of JJM properly; and not inviting tenders on time for implementation of drinking water schemes.” Taking to X late Tuesday, Raje had said, “Don’t the people feel thirsty? Only you officers feel thirsty?” Story continues below this ad A two-term CM, Raje had visited Jhalawar’s Raipur town Tuesday, where local officials apparently could not give a satisfactory reply to her queries regarding the drinking water issues. A day later on Thursday, Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma had held a meeting …

Rajasthan CM Bhajan Lal Sharma | Tackling teething troubles

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A political life has a way of bringing a measure to things. If not in a starkly spartan way, Bhajan Lal Sharma retains that good country feel to his daily rhythms: up at sunrise, a brief stroll in the sprawling lawns where the two cows he keeps are always indulged with a spot of patrician patting, and then a busy day interspersed with simple, home-cooked vegetarian meals. A calendar bustling with meetings means he often ends up skipping—or delaying—his early dinner. His demeanour, though, is not devoid of rosy reminders of his carefree, younger days when he was fond of eating—he even won a bet once by consuming over two dozen laddoos at a wedding feast without any water in between. In December 2023, no one would have grudged him a few extra sweets when his name was called out, tambola-style, in the game of chance that decided Rajasthan’s chief ministership. He was nowhere in the race: a first-time legislator, he was being pitchforked from near-anonymity to high office. But from that moment of elation, …

Interview with Bhajan Lal Sharma: ‘Politics and ideology is one thing, I like restraint in language’

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A career mostly spent in district-level work for saffron couldn’t have schooled Bhajan Lal Sharma for the office of Rajasthan CM. Trouble does not cease: an LS poll setback, imminent bypolls, rivals waiting to see him fail. But he’s learning to walk the ‘double-edged sword’, as he tells Deputy Editor Rohit Parihar (Photo: Purushottam Diwakar) ISSUE DATE: Aug 19, 2024 | UPDATED: Aug 9, 2024 17:15 IST Q. There is a perception that you are a novice. How are you tackling ministers senior to you? Source link

Chhattisgarh done, race for CM in MP, Rajasthan continues; Bhopal meet today | Latest News India

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With the announcement of the first-ever tribal chief minister for Chhattisgarh, the Bharatiya Janata Party began to scotch the suspense over selecting candidates for the top position more than a week after the party won in the heartland states in the assembly elections. The party will now take the much-anticipated decision to pick chief ministers for Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. Vasundhara Raje (L). Shivraj Singh Chouhan (R) Following the trend in Chhattisgarh and amid recent buzz, the BJP is likely to opt for a new line of leadership in the remaining states. However, former Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje and incumbent Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan remain to be tough contenders for the race. Stay tuned with breaking news on HT Channel on Facebook. Join Now Party huddle in Bhopal today The BJP’s newly elected Madhya Pradesh MLAs will meet in Bhopal on Monday to elect the leader of the legislative party, people aware of the matter said. The meeting will be supervised by Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar, national secretary Asha Lakra and …

Poll-bound Rajasthan | Welfare state

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Amidst a pre-election frenzy of welfare schemes and freebies, the Gehlot regime also enacts a couple of first-in-India bills FOURTH TERM IN MIND: CM Ashok Gehlot distributing social security pension in Sikar. ISSUE DATE: Aug 21, 2023 | UPDATED: Aug 11, 2023 16:13 IST Ascribe it to a genuine feel for the people or to plain shrewdness, but Ashok Gehlot has made social welfare a consistent focus of his administration. A special urgency to tend to the general weal seems to grip the Rajasthan chief minister especially before elections—a time such as now. Whether born of principle or exigency, this bent continues to give Rajasthan some pioneering policy moments. Back in 2011, during his second term, the Free Medicine Scheme was one such. More than an unthinking handout, it was an intervention that answered to a historical need, at a time when increasingly privatised healthcare was bleeding the mass of immiserated citizenry. Crafted around the procurement of generic medicines, it helped break the tyranny of huge mark-ups on branded drugs. Now, the budget session of …