Rebellion in K’taka BJP ahead of polls; Amit Shah holds meeting with party top brass: Reports
New Delhi: The Union Home Minister, Amit Shah, held a meeting with the top leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in New Delhi today, following the release of the party's first list of candidates for the upcoming Karnataka Assembly elections.
The meeting took place at Shah's residence and was attended by BJP chief JP Nadda, party general secretary (organisation) BL Santhosh, national general secretary and Karnataka in-charge Arun Singh, and Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.
Sources informed ANI, the high-level meeting between top Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders, including Union Home Minister Amit Shah, was held in the context of dissatisfaction expressed by multiple leaders in Karnataka after the party's initial list of candidates for the upcoming Assembly polls was announced.
After being denied a ticket to contest from the Athani constituency, former Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka, Laxman Savadi, has resigned from his position as a Legislative Council member and has also stepped down from the primary membership of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Former Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister, Laxman Savadi, has stated that he has taken a firm decision to resign from the primary membership of the BJP and the Legislative Council, after being denied a ticket to contest from the Athani constituency. In his statement, he emphasized his self-respect and denied being influenced by anyone.
Meanwhile, supporters of Anil Benake, the incumbent BJP MLA from Belagavi North, staged a protest on Tuesday evening after he was also denied a ticket to contest in the upcoming Karnataka Assembly elections.
In another development, supporters of BJP MLA Mahadevappa Yadawad held a protest in the Ramdurg constituency of Belagavi after he was denied a ticket, and the ticket was instead given to Chikka Revana, who recently joined the party.
Meanwhile, BJP sources have revealed that former Karnataka Chief Minister and six-time BJP MLA, Jagadish Shettar, has started displaying signs of rebellion and has been summoned to Delhi. Shettar's name was omitted from the initial list of candidates for the upcoming Assembly polls, according to sources within the party.
Jagadish Shettar, the former Chief Minister of Karnataka, has announced that he will be meeting with the national president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), JP Nadda, on Wednesday.
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Meanwhile, in Bengaluru, the current Chief Minister of Karnataka, Basavaraj Bommai, stated that the party has declared the names of 189 candidates, and a consensus has been reached in most areas. However, he acknowledged that some individuals disagree with the list and that discussions will be held with them. Bommai has been in constant communication with these individuals and has already spoken with Laxman Savadi, the State Vice President, urging him not to make any hasty decisions.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has announced the names of 189 candidates for the upcoming Karnataka Assembly polls. The party aimed to ensure fair representation of different castes and communities while also fielding "strong candidates" against notable Congress leaders.
Additionally, the BJP has emphasized "social engineering" in its initial list of candidates, with a mix of new and experienced individuals, according to party sources.
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has announced that he will be contesting from the Shiggaon constituency in the upcoming assembly polls. According to party insiders, the BJP's list includes 52 new candidates, while 21 incumbent MLAs have been excluded. The state assembly election will be held on May 10th, with 224 seats up for grabs. Vote counting is scheduled to take place on May 13th.
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Sharad Pawar praised RSS after seeing how it burst fake narrative balloon of LS polls: Fadnavis
Nagpur, Jan 10: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday said NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar praised the RSS after realising how the outfit managed to overcome the fake narrative spread by the opposition in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
The opposition had claimed BJP wanted to win 400 seats to change the Constitution and end reservations, a narrative which BJP leaders later claimed hit the party hard.
On Pawar praising the RSS recently, the CM said the MVA was successful in creating a fake narrative during the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
"When assembly polls were approaching, many people from diverse fields who are inspired by the RSS played their role and burst the balloon of this fake narrative. Sharad Pawar saheb is very intelligent. He would have certainly studied this aspect. He realised that this (RSS) is not a regular political power but a nationalist power. In any competition it is good to praise others," he added.
That is why Pawar may have praised the RSS, Fadnavis said.
Speaking at an interaction with senior editor Vivek Ghalsasi at Late Vilasji Fadnis Jivhala programme here, Fadnavis also said he had asked for organisational work when Eknath Shinde was made chief minister in June 2022, but senior leaders asked him to join the government.
He also said Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked him not to behave like an extra-constitutional authority in the government.
He said the decision to become deputy chief minister on the command of the party leadership earned him a lot of praise from the cadre.
After the massive mandate the ruling alliance received in the 2024 assembly polls, Fadnavis said people and party workers would not have been happy if the CM was not from the BJP.
Shinde himself agreed within minutes that the CM must be from the BJP, which itself got 132 seats and was close to a majority of its own in the 288-member assembly, he added.
On Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray meeting him during the winter sessions of the legislature in Nagpur, Fadnavis said he had announced he would not indulge in politics of revenge after becoming CM and all leaders responded positively to it.
On chances of the NCP (SP) and NCP coming closer or reuniting, Fadnavis said, "If you see the developments that took place from 2019 to 2024, I realised never say never and anything can happen. Uddhav Thackeray goes to some other party and Ajit Pawar comes to us. In politics anything can happen though I am not saying this should happen."
He praised BJP leader Arun Gujarati from whom he learnt patience, which he claimed was an important quality in politics along with the ability to take criticism.
In a lighter vein, he said, "I only get angry when I am hungry. If you see me angry then give me something to eat and my anger will go away."
