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Kharge, Rahul Meet K’taka Congress Leaders To Discuss LS Poll Strategy

By LokMarg 2nd August 2023

The Congress central leadership held a meeting with party leaders from Karnataka at its headquarters in Delhi on Wednesday to discuss the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. About 50 leaders and ministers from Karnataka participated in the meeting with Central Congress leaders, including Congress national president Mallikarjun Kharge and party leader Rahul Gandhi.

Karnataka deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar said on Tuesday that the meeting is for strategizing on an action plan for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
“Ministers, MLAs, and other leaders are visiting Delhi to discuss strategy for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The leaders have called a meeting in the interest of the party to discuss election strategy and distribution of responsibilities. In addition, all our guarantees will be discussed so that it reaches people of the state well,” Shivakumar said on Tuesday in Bengaluru.

The meeting will also likely discuss the criticism of many Congress MLAs that some ministers are not accessible to them.

In the Congress Legislative Party meeting, many MLAs said that some Ministers were not accessible to them, and raised grievances over the lack of funds for development works. (ANI)

BJP To Court OBCs, Minorities Ahead Of 2024 Elections

By LokMarg 24th February 2023

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) OBC Morcha will kickstart a mass outreach programme in view of the Lok Sabha polls next year, aiming to cover the OBC community and minorities across the country, a party leader said on Friday.

Through the programme which the party has named ‘Gaon Gaon Chalo, Ghar Ghar Chalo Abhiyan’, the party will kick it off on April 6 till 14.

The campaign will be led by the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP)’s OBC Morcha President K Laxman.

According to sources, he can start this campaign from Telangana. This campaign will be run in 30 states, in which Laxman will run this campaign in nine to ten states as the National President of OBC Morcha.

Speaking to ANI, Laxman said that this campaign will be done according to the order of BJP national President JP Nadda.

“This campaign will be run across the country from April 6 to 14 for the development and welfare of the poor. There is OBC population of 70 to 72 crore across the country and this campaign will play a big role in the upcoming elections,” he said.

“Our resolution is to connect Pasmanda Muslims with the mainstream, in which we will run this campaign in 900 villages of Pasmanda,” he added.

OBC Morcha President said that the Assembly elections are to be held in many states in 2023 and keeping in view the Lok Sabha, this campaign will be run across the country.

“Under this campaign, efforts will be made to connect OBC society with the main ideology of BJP,” he added.

“BJP’s foundation day is on April 6, Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar’s birth anniversary is on April 14 and in view of this, from April 6 to 14, for a total of nine days we will run the campaign Gaon Gaon Chalo, Ghar Ghar Chalo Abhiyan’,” said the BJP leader.

He further said that he will communicate with the public about the achievements of the government in the nine-day-long campaign.

“Will talk to the public about the achievements like increasing the respect of the OBC society, giving constitutional status to backward classes and giving reservations in exams like NEET etc. Under this campaign, our target is to reach one lakh villages and 9 to 10 lakh houses. We will set up a chaupal and will compare the opposition parties with the BJP and try to connect them. Our focus will be on more than 100 Lok Sabha constituencies,” said the BJP leader.

He said that there are a total of 12,000 mandal committees in the whole country and one mandal will go to 10 villages and run this campaign in full swing adding that the efforts will be made to connect every religion OBC with BJP.

Further, talking about the Telangana elections, which is likely to be held at the end of the year, Laxman said, “BJP will have a majority government in the coming elections in Telangana because the opponents have only ruined Telangana, while the BJP and the Modi government are providing free rations to the public and many more. It is providing facilities and developing the country.” (ANI)

2024 LS Polls: BJP’S OBC Morcha To Launch Campaign ‘Gao-Gao Chalo, Ghar-Ghar Chalo’

By LokMarg 5th January 2023

As the countdown for the Lok Sabha elections due next year began with the start of 2023, the BJP has stepped up its preparations to reach out to all sections of society. The party’s OBC Morcha has decided to launch the ‘Gaon-Gaon Chalo, Ghar-Ghar Chalo’ program in March-April.

According to the sources, the OBC Morcha, an important part of the BJP, has started putting in efforts to reach out to the voters of the nine states that will go to Assembly elections this year.
The Assembly elections are scheduled this year in Tripura, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram and Telangana.

“With the support of the OBC community, the BJP wants to form the government in the states because there is 40 to 50 per cent participation of the OBC community in all the states and the Centre,” a source said.

“The OBC Morcha will start the ‘Gaon-Gaon Chalo Ghar Ghar Chalo’ programme in the middle of March-April keeping in view the elections. Through this programme, OBC people be informed about the work done by the government for them which include decisions like 27 per cent reservation being given in NEET, and reservation being given in central education schemes,” the source added.

All the decisions pertaining to further preparations will be taken at the meeting of the OBC National Working Committee.

“All the office bearers will go to every village and distribute these achievements to the people through pamphlets,” the source said.

There will be a meeting of the national office bearers of the OBC Morcha in Haryana at the end of January in which decisions will be taken on the number of villages to be visited, the chunk of people to be contacted etc.

“The OBC morcha believes that since PM Modi came to power, the pride of OBC society has been restored and they are happy. The government has introduced many important schemes for the community. The OBC Morcha is continuously meeting intellectuals, and all BJP committees and are also engaging in public relations campaigns,” the source said.

The OBC Morcha has been given the responsibility of reaching out to the community in all the states. The Morcha members have already travelled to 25 states. It will soon travel to Jammu Kashmir and the Northeast as well. (ANI)

AIADMK To Decide On Seat-Sharing For 2024 LS: Jayakumar

By LokMarg 27th December 2022

With over a year still left for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), an ally of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at the Centre, on Tuesday said that the decision on seat-sharing for the parliamentary elections would be decided by AIADMK.

AIADMK interim general secretary and former Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami chaired a meeting of district secretaries at the party headquarters. Party MPs, MLAs and spokespersons also attended the meeting.
AIADMK spokesperson D Jayakumar said, “Today we had a meeting of district secretaries chaired by our interim general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami at the party headquarters.

We discussed the 2024 parliamentary election preparations.”

This was the second such meeting held at the AIDMK headquarters since the leadership rift began in the party.

Asked about seat-sharing for the 2012 LS polls, Jayakumar said, “It is not the right time to discuss seat-sharing since one year is still there. There is no doubt that the alliance will be led by AIADMK. Those parties which come under our AIADMK leadership will be inducted into our alliance. In the AIADMK alliance for the parliamentary election, seat allocation will be done by AIADMK.”

The AIADMK leader said people are oppressed by the DMK government in Tamil Nadu. He said DMK will get a befitting reply from people in the elections.

“This current DMK-led state government doesn’t procure sugarcane which affects farmers. It will be good if the Assembly elections also come along with the Lok Sabha polls,” Jayakumar said.

Jayakumar censured the reports of internal conflict in the party.

“There are no issues within our party. We all are united. We did not discuss O Panneerselvam, Sasikala, or TTV Dhinakaran since they are not at our party. How can Panneerselvam claim on our party flag and symbol when he is not in our party?”

Notably, Panneerselvam called a meeting of AIADMK district secretaries and other leaders of his faction on Wednesday.

Earlier on Friday, expelled AIADMK leader Sasikala hinted at the reunion of the party before the general elections in 2024.

“All factions will be united with the AIADMK and face the next general elections unitedly and emerge victorious,” she said. (ANI)