The decision to appoint the chief of the BJP's Rajasthan unit has been deferred as the differences between the party's president, Amit Shah, and the Rajasthan chief minister, Vasundhara Raje, remained unresolved. Sources say Raje and Shah are adamant over their picks.
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Shatrughan Sinha, veteran BJP MP from Patna Sahib, triggered speculations about his future political move in Patna when he attended an iftar party hosted by Tejashwi Yadav. He said he will be contesting the (future) elections on either a Congress ticket or an RJD ticket.
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Chief minister of Maharashtra, Devendra Fadnavis, said people will vote for Prime Minister Narendra Modi again in the 2019 Lok Sabha election. He said people will vote for Modi because what India could not achieve in 67 years, it achieved under Modi in four years.
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Rahul Gandhi hosted an iftar party on behalf of the Congress for the first time after becoming the party president. The party was attended by former presidents Pranab Mukherjee and Pratibha Patil. Several senior opposition leaders too attended the event.
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Congress president Rahul Gandhi said a "mahagathbandhan" (grand alliance) is not just a political necessity but the people's desire today. However, the Congress president evaded answering when asked who would lead such an alliance.
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Sensing everything is not well following the spate of losses in the recent byelections, BJP president Amit Shah has got the party's ball rolling for the state elections in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, which will sent the tone for the 2019 Lok Sabha election.
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Rajasthan Congress chief Sachin Pilot on Wednesday ruled out his party's alliance with Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party for the upcoming assembly election in the state. The election is likely to be held in December this year.
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The party, which has lost a string of bypolls, both assembly and Lok Sabha, since it stormed into power at the Centre in 2014, is appearing to take no chances with the key state that traditionally witnesses a bipolar contest between the Congress and the BJP.
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