High decibel campaign ends in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh
The Hindu
Campaigning for MP & CG Assembly polls ends; PM Modi appeals to voters in MP to elect BJP for development; Congress & BJP locked in a keen battle; Kharge & Vadra attack Modi & Scindia respectively. PM Modi & Congress accuse each other of dynastic & negative politics.
New Delhi:
The high voltage campaign for elections to the 230-member Madhya Pradesh Assembly and 70 seats of the 90-member Chhattisgarh Assembly came to a close on Wednesday ahead of voting on Friday.
While Madhya Pradesh will vote in a single phase on November 17, voting in 20 seats of Chhattisgarh took place on November 7 in the first phase polling in the State.
On the last day of campaigning, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to social media platform X to appeal to voters in Madhya Pradesh to elect the BJP for the State’s development and claimed that people are very angry with the “dynastic and negative” politics of the Congress.
In a separate post, Mr. Modi said the Congress was headed for a rout in Chhattisgarh and assured the voters that the BJP would fulfil all its pledges.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra led the charge against the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government in Madhya Pradesh, while Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP president J.P. Nadda and former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi were the star campaigners in neighbouring Chhattisgarh.
The Congress and the BJP are locked in a keen battle in the two States, with both parties claiming the pole position.
“We are judges and therefore, cannot act like Mughals of a bygone era ... the writ courts in the guise of doing justice cannot transcend the barriers of law,” the High Court of Karnataka observed while setting aside an order of a single judge, who in 2016 had extended the lease of a public premises allotted to a physically challenged person to 20 years contrary to 12-year period stipulated in the law.
The High Court of Karnataka on Monday declined to interfere, at present, in the investigation against a Bharatiya Janata Party worker, who is among the accused persons facing charges of circulating obscene clips, related to “morphed” images and videos clips related to Prajwal Revanna, former Hassan MP, in public domain through pen drives and other modes.
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