Wednesday, 9 August 2017

Gujarat Rajya Sabha election: Ahmed Patel's win a shot in the arm for Congress, but the bigger battle remains


The struggle that the Congress birthday celebration went via to get its candidate Ahmed Patel re-elected to the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat indicates the disconnect between the birthday celebration s significant and nation leadership. Rajya Sabha elections have been an low-key affair for the reason that numbers position is greater or much less settled we don t see an awful lot hullabaloo and the parties can constantly predict the winner relying on the numbers each birthday party holds. However this time across the complete episode were given blown out of share in Gujarat after the disgruntled nearby leaders revolted towards the celebration and Congress top management failed to pacify them. This in turn created a state of affairs that gave its political rival BJP the danger to fish in stricken waters and brought about a political slugfest over the Rajya Sabha seat.The very truth that Patel the Political Secretary to Sonia Gandhi got votes from handiest 42 party MLAs out of the 51 left after the latest insurrection says sufficient approximately the disaster inside the celebration. Patel barely managed to scrape thru via bagging exactly 44 votes wished with the aid of garnering aid from different events.File image of Ahmed Patel. PTIThe first blow to the Congress came simply after Shankersinh Vaghela a veteran chief abandoned the party along with six of his followers. But this became not the primary time when discontent a number of the regional leadership has led the birthday celebration to a primary hassle. Earlier sour dissidence in Assam Pradesh Congress Committee led by Congress minister Himanta Biswa Sarma induced an electoral disaster for the party in 2016.In fact BJP rode the tide of disgruntlement a number of the Congress leaders to register its first historical victory in the Northeastern nation a Congress bastion.Sarma narrated his experience with Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi to the media after BJP won the election He could be very conceited. When you go to see him it is a servant-grasp dating that's disgusting. He additionally stated that he knowledgeable Rahul Gandhi two years earlier than the meeting election that the birthday celebration become imploding. At that assembly Gandhi seemed preoccupied with playing together with his canine in preference to taking note of the humans surrounding him NDTVquoted him as saying.Defection of Sarma turned into most effective the start of the landslide to comply with. Rita Bahuguna Joshi another senior Congress leader joined BJP earlier than the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election dealing every other blow to the Congress. With her leaving the celebration the Congress lost the claim on the legacy of former Uttar Pradesh leader minister Hemavati Nandan Bahuguna who become her father and held deep have an effect on over the country s politics.Though she cited a politically more correct model of her cause to surrender but it became stated that she had already been pushed to the sidelines in the celebration by way of her competitors.Earlier the Congress party misplaced the complete country authorities of Arunachal Pradesh to BJP after lots bickering a number of the birthday celebration legislators induced by means of dissidence towards Chief Minister Nabam Tuki led via Kalikho Pul.The disconnect among the top and regional leaders of the party has ended in loss of loyalty for the celebration amongst local leaders. Shifting of loyalties through Congress MLAs led the Congress to the embarrassing state of affairs that spread out in Rajya Sabha polls in Gujarat.On the day of election the Congress had handiest forty four MLAs out of fifty one who it was positive might vote for Patel out of which two again go-voted for the BJP candidate. This got here regardless of the reality that the birthday party sequestered away forty four of its final MLAs to a lodge to avoid similarly defection. This most effective is going on to reveal that the requirement to protect the MLAs emerges from the widening gap a few of the pinnacle and the regional leaders wherein the previous fails to accept as true with party MLAs.The Rajya Sabha episode coincides with the Sultan and Sultanate jibe taken by senior Congressman Jairam Ramesh on some leaders of his birthday celebration. The sultanate has gone but we behave as if we're Sultans still Jairam Ramesh stated to the media. The gross show of lack of knowledge through the Congress top leadership with recognize to the heath of the birthday celebration s local gadgets which the Guajarat Rajya Sabha polls also introduced to daylight best lends extra relevance to Ramesh s words. Amit Shah gained his first Parliament election while Smriti Irani became re-elected too. (Source: PTI) The Gujarat Rajya Sabha election grew to become out to be a intricate affair as the Election Commission of India (ECI) invoked Article 324 of the Constitution to revoke the choice of its Returning Officer (RO) in the country and declare invalid the votes solid via two Congress MLAs. Such segregation can be carried out at the time of counting with regards to the serial numbers of the poll papers issued to the electors involved as in keeping with the record maintained at the counter foils of ballots papers below Rule 38A the Commission said. Out of the Bharatiya Janata Party applicants birthday party chief Amit Shah made his debut to the Parliament whilst Smriti Irani became re-elected too. Congress leader Ahmed Patel too changed into elected in one of the most dramatic elections these days. Prime Minister Narendra Modi nowadays congratulated Union minister Smriti Irani and BJP chief Amit Shah on being elected to the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat. Here are Gujarat Rajya Sabha election 2017 LIVE Updates: 1:05 PM: The BJP used all strength it had; it deployed all its union ministers however the fact received. It is a victory of truth. We thank the EC for upholding the regulation and retaining the two unwarranted votes. There can not be a better lesson for the BJP Congress spokesperson Surjewala had said. 12:25 PM: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah nowadays welcomed Ahmed Patel s win however brought that it must have not been that difficult. That Ahmed bhai has gained is a very welcome improvement however it must have by no means been this tough. Introspection

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