Most of the 60-odd sitting Congress MLAs are in the reckoning for renomination, as per folks conscious of the matter. The celebration’s central election committee is slated to maintain a gathering on Friday. Congress can be exploring restricted alliances with events corresponding to NCP and BTP.
AICC in-charge of Gujarat Raghu Sharma, a former minister in the Rajasthan authorities, indicated that the Gujarat Congress’ pre-poll guarantees will embody many schemes which the Ashok Gehlot authorities has executed. “Congress in Gujarat will promise to implement what our party’s governments, including in Rajasthan, have already implemented effectively,” he stated at a presser after EC introduced the Gujarat ballot schedule
These schemes embody a revival of the Old Pension Scheme, ₹10 lakh insurance insurance policies for households, zero electrical energy invoice for poor households and free energy provide to farmers, ₹5 subsidy per litre of milk, employment assure scheme for the city poor on the traces of MGNREG ACT, meal for ₹8 from Indira kitchen scheme, ₹3 lakh mortgage waiver for farmers and Mahatma Gandhi English medium faculties for poor kids.
Yet, there are whispers in Congress circles about Rahul Gandhi not launching a blitzkrieg in the state the place the opposition celebration gave a detailed struggle to BJP in the 2017 polls – he addressed one rally some weeks in the past. Though the Congress management is showcasing Gandhi’s preoccupation with the Bharat Jodo Yatra and maintains he may very well be campaigning each in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh as and when wanted, many wonder if Gandhi not making serial sorties into the election-bound states betrays his reluctance to chunk the bullet.
“Every political padayatra is in pursuit of electoral revival, and anyone pretending otherwise is not fooling anyone,” a Congress functionary stated on situation of anonymity.
The election marks the primary Congress ballot administration in many many years with out the late Ahmed Patel.
