Assembly elections will be held in December 2023 in five states-Chhattisgarh (90 seats), Madhya Pradesh (230 seats), Mizoram (40 seats), Rajasthan(200 seats) and Telangana (119 seats) and will be the last before the Lok Sabha polls in May 2024. Of the five states, BJP is in power in Madhya Pradesh (127\/230) while Congress is in power in Chhattisgarh (68\/90) and Rajasthan(108\/200); Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS)in power in Telangana (71\/119) and Mizo National Front (MNF) in power in Mizoram (26\/40).The Congress and the BJP will be the main contenders in three big states \u2013Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh while the BRS has sway in Telangana and MNF in Mizoram. Against the backdrop of urgent calls for national opposition unity for 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the opposition parties are yet to let that sink in as each get ready to fight each other including the BJP in the five states. The five states have a total f 83 Lok Sabha constituencies of which BJP has 9 and Congress two out of 11seats in Chhattishgarh; BJP 29 and Congress 1 of 29 Lok Sabha seats in Madhya Pradesh; BJP has 24 and RLP one out of 25 in Rajasthan; BRS has 9, BJP 4, Congress 3 and AIMM 1 in Telangana while MNF holds the lone Lok Sabha seat in the state.After its spectacular win in Karnataka recently, Congress which stormed back to power winning 136 of the 224 seats. The Karnataka Assembly elections can be termed as the quarter-finals and the elections in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and Telangana later this year as the semi-finals ahead of the all-important Lok Sabha battle next year. The Congress win in Karnataka over BJP comes after the December 2022 win over BJP in Himachal Pradesh where Congress won 40 out of 68 seats. The Congress has a herculean task ahead of the December polls in Rajasthan where its beleaguered chief minister Ashok Gehlot is facing open revolt from Congress leader Sachin Pilot. In a significant political development, the Congress in Madhya Pradesh has gone \u2018Hinduvta\u2019 after the merger of the Bajrang Sena with the party which happened on June 6, in presence of M.P. Congress president Kamal Nath. Amid chants of Jai Shri Ram and a declaration of support for the Assembly poll due later this year in Madhya Pradesh, the Bajrang Sena has committed to work for the Congress in the December polls. It remains to be seen whether the Bajrang Sena will be able to tilt the balance in favour of the Congress. At the national level, there is no hard evidence of all opposition parties coming together to fight the BJP together. There appears to be competition among the opposition ahead of 2024 Lok Sabha polls and both AAP and Trinamool Congress are keen to be seen as the prime challengers of BJP, a role that Congress has been espousing so far. AAP and TMC are disinclined to play second fiddle to Congress. TMC considers Congress as a rival in West Bengal and similarly the AAP in Punjab and Delhi. However things might change if Congress can retain Rajasthan and retake Madhya Pradesh but that will still not change the problem of the opposition being unable to come together for lack of a viable leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Assembly elections will be held in December 2023 in five states-Chhattisgarh (90 seats), Madhya Pradesh (230 seats), Mizoram (40 seats), Rajasthan(200 seats) and Telangana (119 seats) and will be the last before the Lok Sabha polls in May 2024. Of the five states, BJP is in power in Madhya Pradesh (127\/230) while Congress is in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[685],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}