Speaking on the 2024 Vidhan Sabha elections, Mishra said the CM Naveen Patnaik-led state government has failed the people of the state, and the BJP in the upcoming election will bring 147 seats.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday hit out at the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government in Madhya Pradesh, alleging corruption and misgovernance and said his party is committed to giving due share in power to weaker sections
Sitting Madhya Pradesh minister Tulsi Silawat, who is bidding for a fresh mandate from the Sanwer Assembly constituency, on Tuesday said the ruling BJP was on course to return to power in the November 17 sate elections.
"Their (Congress) government was at the Centre for ten years. Rahul Gandhi remembers everything when his party is in the opposition. His father and his grandmother all were in power. Now they are remembering all this (the issue of caste census)," Pralhad Joshi said while speaking to ANI.
"How many Dalits are there in this room.. how many OBCs are there in the room, raise your hands...," Rahul Gandhi asked at the press conference after the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting here.
The party, in its resolution, promised to conduct a nationwide Caste Census, implement OBC quota within women's quota and bring in a law to remove the 50 per cent cap to ensure reservation for OBCs, SCs and STs in line with the commensurate share of the population once it comes to power a
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Monday hailed the move of party-ruled Rajasthan government for caste survey in the state and said there was demand for it from delegation of OBC community which met Rahul Gandhi during his Bharat Jodo Yatra
After the Congress Working Committee supported the caste census, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) OBC Morcha National President K Laxman called it "drama" saying that Congress just wanted to do politics over caste.
Taking on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not conducting a caste survey across the country and alleging that the PM has been employing diversionary tactics to avoid the survey, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi said that PM Modi is "incapable" of doing the caste census.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday said that the Congress Working Committee (CWC) unanimously supported the idea of a caste census in the country and called it a "progressive and powerful step."