Modi to address six rallies in Karnataka from April 8
Bengaluru, Apr 2: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address six election rallies in Karnataka, including two on April 18, the day 14 Lok Sabha seats in southern districts will go to polls in the first phase, the BJP's state unit said Tuesday.
On April 8, Modi will address rallies at Chitradurga and Mysuru, and on April 13 at Mangaluru and Bengaluru, state BJP general secretary Arvind Limbavali said.
The Prime Minister will address public rallies at Chikkodi and Gangavathi on April 18, he said in a release.
Karnataka will go to polls in two phases, 14 constituencies each, on April 18 and 23.
Chikkodi and Gangavathi will go to polls in the second phase.
BJP president Amit Shah will campaign in the state on April 10, 12, 17 and 20 at Davangere, Hassan, Tumkur, Kolar, Kalaburagi, Vijayapura and Dharwad, respectively, he said.
Several senior leaders of the party including Home Minister Rajnath Singh will be campaigning in the state, he said.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will campaign in parts of the state on April 15 and 21 and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will address rallies in Karwar and Haveri.
The BJP, which is fighting the polls against the rulingCongress-JD(S) combine, has fielded its candidates in 27 out of the total 28 constituencies.
BJP is supporting independent candidate and actress Sumalatha Ambareesh in the Vokkaliga bastionof Mandya, which will go to polls in the first phase.
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Bengal MLA Humayun Kabir floats new party days after laying foundation for Babri-style mosque
Beldanga (WB), Dec 22 (PTI): West Bengal MLA Humayun Kabir on Monday floated a new outfit, Janata Unnayan Party, days after he was suspended by the TMC for laying the foundation stone for a Babri-style mosque in Murshidabad district.
Addressing a public meeting in Beladanga, Kabir named eight candidates that his new party will field in the 2026 assembly elections in the state.
Kabir, the MLA of Bharatpur, said he would contest the assembly polls from two seats, Rejinagar and Beldanga in Murshidabad.
"We can only tell you later how many seats we will be finally contesting," he told the gathering.
Kabir said his mission is to oust Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from power in the assembly polls, which will be due in less than six months.
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"Mamata Banerjee is no longer the same person I knew. She is beyond the reach of the common man," he alleged.
The BJP alleged Kabir was working to help the TMC return to power.
"Kabir will not be a factor in the next assembly polls. He will face the drubbing of the electorate along with his old friend TMC, with which he is still in touch in a clandestine manner. Both Kabir and his new party will be rejected by the people of Bengal," state BJP president Samik Bhattacharya claimed.
He claimed Kabir was attempting to split "BJP votes" in the assembly polls.
"In the wake of the situation in Bangladesh, people of Bengal will thwart Kabir's attempts and elect a strong nationalist force like the BJP, only which can defeat fundamentalists," he claimed.
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The TMC is yet to comment on Kabir's new party.
The TMC had suspended Kabir on December 4 after his announcement to build a Babri-style mosque triggered a massive row.
On December 6, the day the Babri Masjid was razed in Ayodhya in 1992, a defiant Kabir laid the foundation stone for the mosque at Rejinagar.
Kabir has had a tryst with most of the major political parties in the state over the last 10 years.
In 2015, he was "expelled" by the TMC for six years for criticising the CM and alleging that she was trying to make her nephew, Abhishek Banerjee, the "king".
He contested the 2016 assembly elections as an Independent from the Rejinagar seat, but lost to Congress candidate Rabiul Alam Chowdhury. He subsequently joined the Congress, which then had a huge presence in the district, but switched to the BJP ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
The BJP fielded him as its candidate in the Murshidabad Lok Sabha seat, and managed to secure the third spot after the TMC and Congress nominees. He then returned to the TMC and, in 2021, became the MLA of Bharatpur.
