congress: Spurned by RJD, Congress opts for solo run in Bihar council polls

By the old ally Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), which has refused to share any of the 24 seats in the Bihar Legislative Council with the Congress, for which elections are to be held, the All India Congress Committee on Saturday announced its selection of eight candidates. First batch announced.

RJD-Congress relations at new low

The split of the RJD and the Congress in the Bihar Legislative Council elections marks a new deterioration in the Congress’s ties with the once solid ally RJD, led by Lalu Prasad and his son. It also means that Priyanka Gandhi Vadra did not move the RJD, emotionally or politically, after her latest conviction in a corruption case with Prasad recently, citing that customary “Thank you Priyanka ji” by Tejashwi Yadav. “Retweeted.

The RJD’s decision not to accommodate the Congress in even one of the 24 council seats – of which the Yadavs allotted a seat to another ally – the CPI-ML – for which elected local panchayat members would constitute voters across Bihar, further advertised The Bihar Party systematically distanced itself from the Congress after the RJD-Congress-Left assembly election battle against the BJP-JD(U) in November 2020.

Congress will go to the Supreme Court against the order of the Election Commission

Meanwhile, AICC observer for Manipur elections Jairam Ramesh said he would file a petition in the Supreme Court against the Election Commission’s decision (by dismissing a plea of ​​Congress) which said that the (BJP-led) Manipur government Money released to Banned Cookie National. The organization did not violate the model code of conduct under the provisions of “suspension of operation”. The Congress plea argued that since payments resumed under the provision of “suspension of operations” after a long time just before the election, it was a violation of the code of conduct.

Originally published at Pen 18