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Delhi confidential: Son’s Turn
Senior leaders Sachin Pilot and Bhanwar Jitendra Singh are unlikely to contest, as they are AICC general secretaries in charge of states. Sources said Kamal Nath's son and sitting MP Nakul's ticket has been cleared from the Chhindwara seat in Madhya Pradesh.
The TMC, it is learnt, will not send its representative to the rally, as it feels it cannot share the stage with the Congress when its West Bengal chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury is attacking it repeatedly. (File Photo)
The Congress leadership, it is said, was keen on Ashok Gehlot contesting the Lok Sabha elections quite like former Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel but the former Rajasthan Chief Minister expressed his unwillingness to fight the polls this time.
Instead he wanted his son Vaibhav to try out his luck once again. Monday, the Congress’s Central Election Committee cleared Vaibhav’s candidature but from a different seat in Rajasthan. Vaibhav lost the 2019 elections from Jodhpur to Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat. This time, the party has surprisingly fielded Vaibhav from Jalore.
Senior leaders Sachin Pilot and Bhanwar Jitendra Singh are unlikely to contest, as they are AICC general secretaries in charge of states. Sources said Kamal Nath’s son and sitting MP Nakul’s ticket has been cleared from the Chhindwara seat in Madhya Pradesh.
Stage Fright
After no seat-sharing, it’s no stage-sharing for the Trinamool Congress. The party Sunday announced its candidates for all the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal, dashing the Congress’s hope of a seat-sharing pact with it in the eastern state.
The TMC is now set to announce its candidates for the Tura Lok Sabha seat in Meghalaya and at least four seats in Assam. The Congress, however, has said it would invite all INDIA bloc parties to the rally in Mumbai on March 17 to mark the culmination of Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra.
The TMC, it is learnt, will not send its representative to the rally, as it feels it cannot share the stage with the Congress when its West Bengal chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury is attacking it repeatedly.
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