Today in Politics: After Jharkhand first phase, PM Modi set to campaign in Maharashtra

In his caller rallies, Modi has been utilizing the slogan “ek rahenge toh harmless rahenge (united we volition beryllium safe)”, portion claiming the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), the Congress successful particular, is “creating fights among the Dalit, backward and tribal communities, and dividing them to summation power”.

While successful the Marathwada region, wherever Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar is located, the ascendant Marathas volition find the outcome, successful Mumbai, the PM is expected absorption connected the larger economical connection of the ruling Mahayuti and talk astir the infrastructure improvement that some the authorities and Central governments person brought to the state.

Meanwhile successful Jharkhand, Shah is acceptable to pb the BJP’s complaint with rallies connected Thursday successful the Giridih, Gandey and Dumri Assembly seats, which ballot successful the 2nd signifier connected Thursday. All 3 seats are held by the ruling Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM); the Gandey seat, successful particular, features 1 of the state’s astir high-profile contests with Chief Minister Hemant Soren’s woman Kalpana looking to clasp a spot she won successful a bypoll earlier this year.

Delhi mayoral elections

After respective disruptions, a Supreme Court verdict and a seven-month delay, elections for a caller Delhi Mayor are scheduled for Thursday.

Even if the elections are held successfully, the caller Mayor and Deputy Mayor volition lone person a five-month tenure arsenic the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act mandates mayoral elections to beryllium held annually successful April.

The mayoral posts person been reserved for the Scheduled Caste (SC) class this year.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had nominated Dev Nagar councillor Mahesh Kumar Khichi and Aman Vihar councillor Ravinder Bhardwaj for the posts of Mayor and Deputy Mayor. Meanwhile, the BJP had nominated its Shakurpur councillor Kishan Lal for Mayor and Sadatpur councillor Neeta Bisht for Deputy Mayor.

One twelvemonth of Revanth Reddy government

The Revanth Reddy-led Congress authorities successful Telangana is acceptable to implicit 1 twelvemonth successful powerfulness connected November 14.

In the 2023 Assembly polls, the Congress won 64 of the 119 seats successful the Telangana Assembly and defeated the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) that had been successful powerfulness for 10 years.

Revanth Reddy – who has had a meteoric emergence successful the Congress having joined the enactment conscionable successful 2017 – became the archetypal prime of the precocious bid for the apical job.

The past twelvemonth has been a mixed container for Reddy. While helium has been appreciated for much oregon little delivering connected the Congress guarantees, Reddy has been facing the vigor implicit contracts awarded to household members.

Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) moving president and erstwhile Telangana curate K T Rama Rao Tuesday alleged that Reddy’s brother-in-law was awarded contracts worthy implicit Rs 1,000 crore nether the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) – a improvement ngo that aims to amended prime of municipality beingness – contempt his institution lacking the indispensable qualifications.

Rao, popularly known arsenic KTR, wrote a missive to Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs Manohar Lal Khattar, alleging that the CM’s brother-in-law S Srujan Reddy’s institution was awarded a declaration worthy Rs 1,137 crore “despite its meagre nett declaration of Rs 2.2 crore for the fiscal twelvemonth 2021-2022”.

– With PTI inputs