Shinde to head caretaker Govt until Mahayuti Cabinet is sworn-in
The swearing-in date of the BJP-dominated Mahayuti government has not been decided, but the word is that it could be Wednesday or even scheduled for December 1 or December 2.
With two Assembly polls this month political parties seem to be gearing up their campaigning strategies and also comes the jibes from the Opposition parties. The All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen president Asaduddin Owaisi in his recent attack on Congress said the party has been “wiped out” from the landscape and can’t be revived even if it was administered a “calcium injection.”
AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi while addressing a public meeting for the October 21 Maharashtra Assembly elections on Sunday said that one of country’s oldest party is losing its relevance in the current political scenario. Owaisi claimed top leadership of the Congress has “ignored” important elections in Maharashtra and Haryana.
“The Congress has been wiped out from the political spectrum of the country. It can’t be revived even by a calcium injection,” he said.
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Slamming the ruling BJP, the Hyderabad MP said the ruling party has passed a bill in Himachal Pradesh making it mandatory for a citizen to give a one-month notice for religious conversion. “I will not be surprised if (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi brings such bill in Parliament,” he said.
The All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) had contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Maharashtra in-coalition with the Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh (BBM) of PrakashAmbedkar under the aegis of the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA). The VBA had won Aurangabad Lok Sabha seat.
Notably, it split votes of Dalits and Muslims which affected the prospects of many candidates of the Congress in Maharashtra in the polls.
In the 2014 assembly elections the AIMIM had won two seats. For the forthcoming Maharashtra elections, the party has been in talks with BBM leader Prakash Ambedkar.
However, the talks between the two parties have hit a roadblock over allocation of seats. The AIMIM is upset with the BBM for offering it “meagre” number of seats and their alliance seems to be over. However, Ambedkar recently denied the VBA had closed its doors on the AIMIM and said he was always open for discussions.
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