Assembly Elections 2023 Live Updates: Congress is organising day-long marches in Chhattisgarh’s 90 Assembly constituencies to promote CM Bhupesh Baghel’s welfare schemes.
Assembly Elections 2023 News Today Live Updates (October 2): Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a public rally in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior today, where he decried the Opposition saying that they are ‘vikas-virodhi’ (anti-development). In an attack directed at Congress, he added, “If so much work can be accomplished in 9 years, then why couldn’t this be done in last 60 years” He also added that BJP ensured that the ‘BIMARU’ tag was removed from MP. Before his address, the PM had inaugurated and laid foundation stone of development projects worth Rs 19,260 crore in Gwalior.
Earlier in the day, the PM had addressed a crowd in poll-bound Rajasthan’s Chittorgarh, where he attacked the incumbent Congress government over issues like women’s safety, law and order, and alleged corruption. He said that the present Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot “himself knows he will leave, and is asking BJP government to not stop his schemes.” He had earlier inaugurated and laid the foundation stones of multiple development projects worth Rs 7,000 crore in Chittorgarh today.
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Both states are slated to have Assembly elections later this year. Meanwhile, the Congress will organise day-long marches in each of poll-bound Chhattisgarh’s 90 Assembly constituencies to promote Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel’s welfare schemes. Cabinet ministers, MPs, and MLAs will attend the events in their constituencies. Each of these “Bharosa Yatras (Trust Marches)” will cover 25-30 km and include public meetings.
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Assembly Elections 2023 Live Updates: PM Modi launches development projects in poll-bound Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh today; Congress to take out day-long marches in Chhattisgarh. Follow this space for all the latest news from poll-bound states.
That the flavour of the election season is OBCs was underlined yet again Saturday, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi returned to Chhattisgarh for a rally within a fortnight, and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addressed his first political meeting in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh. The speeches of both mentioned the recent women’s reservation law, with Modi accusing the Opposition of raising caste only to undermine his government’s achievement, and Rahul asking why the government could not provide OBCs a quota in it. The Modi rally also showed once again that local leaders would not be the focus of the BJP campaign, with the PM seeking votes in the name of the BJP and its symbol. If at his recent Madhya Pradesh rally, he made no mention of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, at the Bilaspur meeting, former CM Raman Singh got a mention but did not get to speak. In his speech at Bilaspur, an area that kept the BJP flag up even when it was routed in the 2018 Assembly elections, Modi said the Congress “hates” OBCs and “hates: him because, “despite being an OBC”, he became the PM, a post the party saw as “reserved” for it. Addressing a rally that was part of the Congress’s ongoing Jan Aakrosh Yatra in Shajapur, MP, Rahul said the BJP was not interested in giving the OBC community “real power” and repeated the demand for a caste census.
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First published on: 02-10-2023 at 09:45 IST
