Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday launched a sharp attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Election Commission of India (ECI), alleging that the ruling party was manipulating the electoral process.
The next Assembly elections in Chhattisgarh are more than two years away. Yet political activity in the state is already beginning to take on an unmistakably electoral character.
The latest gathering of opposition parties in New Delhi offered a reminder that the central challenge before India's non-BJP political forces is no longer one of arithmetic. It is one of credibility.
A political war of words erupted on Wednesday as the Congress sought to challenge the narrative surrounding Prime Minister Narendra Modi becoming India's longest-serving Prime Minister in consecutive terms.
"The Election Commission has heard our case today, and now we are waiting. We are in our fight," Natarajan told reporters in Delhi.
The party's campaign focuses on allegations of voter list manipulation, including the addition of "bogus voters" and the "deleting of opposition-inclined voters."
The DMK was reportedly worried that since elections were just a few months away and there were murmurs of a Congress-TVK alliance, the INDIA bloc could destabilise in the absence of clarity.
However, Industry Minister D Sridhar Babu denied the allegation. He said the government’s decision to levy an impact fee for the conversion of industrial land, which Rao suggested was a scam, was nothing but “malicious propaganda.”
Criticising the Congress, party spokesman Gaurav Bhatia accused it of being “an army of traitors”.
He made these remarks following discussions with Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar, emphasizing the resilience of the Congress-led administration despite political challenges.
