NEW DELHI: After a surprising victory in Karnataka, the main target of Congress management has shifted to the subsequent spherical of meeting elections the place the get together is locked in a direct contest with the BJP in some states. With meeting elections due in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Mizoram within the subsequent few months, the Congress is engaged on ballot methods in these states and has convened a gathering of state leaders on May 24.
While Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh are two states dominated by the Congress the place it’s hoping to offset the anti-incumbency issue and factional preventing by replicating the ‘Karnataka technique’, the get together can also be decided to make a comeback in Madhya Pradesh the place it misplaced energy after Jyotiraditya Scindia and a few of the MLAs switched loyalties, sources mentioned.
They mentioned Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has known as a gathering of its leaders from Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh on May 24 to strategise on the upcoming meeting elections. Kharge will maintain separate conferences with the state leaders. A senior chief mentioned the thought is to chalk out an early technique to achieve out to the grassroots stage.
“The Bharat Jodo Yatra, which passed through states like Telangana, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, will benefit the party as the cadres are already activated and the party will get the benefit of the Yatra, as it did in Karnataka,” a senior chief concerned with one of many states informed PTI. Another chief mentioned the nice schemes and works initiated by the Congress governments in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh shall be highlighted in a giant manner and the ballot technique adopted by the get together management in Karnataka shall be replicated in these poll-bound states.
The Congress faces peculiar challenges in a number of of those states, particularly because of infighting and factionalism. In Rajasthan, the Congress has to deal with the festering feud between Sachin Pilot and Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot. Upping the ante, Pilot has threatened to launch an agitation if his calls for weren’t met by May finish.
Concluding his five-day Jan Sangarsh Yatra in Jaipur throughout which he focused the Gehlot authorities on the problem of corruption, Pilot had not too long ago positioned three calls for – disbanding the Rajasthan Public Service Commission (RPSC) and its reorganisation, compensation to youths affected by the federal government examination paper leak and conducting a high-level inquiry into corruption allegations towards the earlier Vasundhara Raje authorities.
There is an additionally open struggle between Chattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and state minister T S SinghDeo, who has been staking declare to the highest put up within the state. In Telangana too, its state unit chief Revanth Reddy faces infighting from state leaders who think about him an outsider. In Karnataka, the get together gave 5 ensures to the individuals of the state and the politics of freebies appears to have labored in its favour.Â
The get together is prone to carry this freebie coverage ahead in different poll-bound states after its success in Himachal Pradesh and Karnataka. Another senior chief mentioned the get together wants to begin now and current a united face towards the BJP, as has been carried out in Himachal, Karnataka and another states, the place the state leaders have been projected.
In Karnataka, state leaders, nudged by the central management, introduced a united face all via the marketing campaign – an element that helped the get together oust the BJP. The variations did come to the fore quickly after the victory and the race for chief ministership turned intense however the get together succeeded in overcoming the problem.
The get together is in a direct contest with the BJP in Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, although there’s a triangular struggle in Telangana among the many Congress, the BJP and the ruling BRS. The Congress isn’t leaving any stone unturned to proceed its successful spree, after wresting Himachal Pradesh and Karnataka from the BJP, because the get together hopes to consolidate its positive factors.
