Amit Shah to release Chouhan govt's 'report card', address BJP meet in poll-bound MP
Bhopal (PTI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah will release the Madhya Pradesh government's "report card" in Bhopal on Sunday and address the BJP's working committee meeting in Gwalior, a party functionary said.
The state assembly polls are due this year-end.
Gwalior is the home turf of Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia.
"Shah will release the report card of the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government at a function here. Thereafter, he will leave for Gwalior where he will chair and address a working committee meeting," state BJP media cell head Ashish Agrawal told PTI over phone on Saturday.
This will be the last meeting of the state working committee before MP goes to polls.
BJP insiders said party MLAs, MPs, district presidents and general secretaries have been told to reach Gwalior. Around 1,500 office-bearers have been called to the meeting where the party is expected to come out with its final plan for the polls, they said.
"We want to increase our movement in Gwalior, the erstwhile kingdom of the Scindias," another BJP leader said.
According to political observers, the BJP is striving to put up a good show in Gwalior and Chambal region, especially after losing the Gwalior mayoral elections last year to the Congress, after 57 years.
This will be Shah's second visit to the state in the last 21 days. On July 30, Shah visited Indore district where he addressed booth-level workers.
In the 2018 assembly polls, the Congress won 26 of the 34 seats in the Gwalior and Chambal region. Jyotiraditya Scindia was a part of the Congress then.
After Scindia switched over to the BJP along with his loyalists, the Congress could win just 7 of the 19 seats in the bypolls in Gwalior and Chambal region in November 2020.
However, after the setback in last year's Gwalior mayoral elections, the BJP doesn't want to take any chances, said a political observer.
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Death toll from Israeli strikes in northeast Lebanon rises from 8 to 24, Lebanese news agency says
Deir al-Balah, Nov 1: Israeli airstrikes on Friday killed at least 24 people in northeastern Lebanon, the country's news agency said, raising the death toll from eight there.
It was the latest deadly toll in the area since the conflict between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah escalated last month.
Israel's military has said that its operation in Lebanon is targeting Hezbollah's military infrastructure.
Lebanon's state National news Agency reported four airstrikes in different villages across country's northeast, saying rescuers were still searching for survivors in Younine, a town in the Bekaa Valley, from the rubble of a targeted house.
Hussein Haj Hassan, a Lebanese lawmaker representing the region in Baalbek-Hermel region, said that 60,000 people have already fled their homes in the area due to Israeli bombardment.
