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  • Avoid cross-voting among opposition parties in 2024: Mamata Banerjee

    Avoid cross-voting among opposition parties in 2024: Mamata Banerjee

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    Mamata Banerjee

    Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Friday once again emphasised that the anti-BJP forces in the country should avoid cross-voting among themselves in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls to prevent the saffron camp taking the benefit of division in opposition votes.

    “Let all the opposition parties get united. Let us ensure a one-to-one fight. Let us all try to work together,” the Chief Minister said while addressing a rally at Samserganj in Murshidabad district.

    However, she continued to remain silent as to whether the Congress is included in Trinamool’s blueprint for united opposition. Previously too, she had remained silent on this matter even during her recent meeting with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav in Kolkata.

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    Political analysts feel that her call for avoiding cross-voting among opposition forces is a reflection of her strategy to ensure that Trinamool doesn’t have to make any compromise in West Bengal in any possible seat-sharing agreement.

    According to political analysts, her call for avoiding cross-voting among opposition forces means those parties which are strong in their respective states should only contest against the BJP in that state, and by that calculation, Trinamool will get an upper-hand in West Bengal, where she will not have to make any compromise in any seat-sharing agreement.

    Banerjee herself is aware that in West Bengal, multi-polar contest ha to be avoided at any cost. Already the Trinamool leadership has announced that the stand of the party is to maintain equal distance from the BJP as well as the Congress.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • Cross-voting shock to YSRCP as TDP wins Council seat

    Cross-voting shock to YSRCP as TDP wins Council seat

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    Amaravati: In a shock to Andhra Pradesh’s ruling YSR Congress Party (YSRCP), the opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) bagged a seat of Legislative Council from MLA quota in the elections held on Thursday.

    TDP’s lone candidate Panchumarthi Anuradha won the election by securing 23 votes, one more than the required number.

    YSRCP won six seats but its seventh candidate Jayamangala Venkataramna suffered shock defeat.

    With the cross-voting of two rebel MLAs of YSRCP, the TDP secured two more votes from the ruling party.

    All 175 members of the Assembly cast their votes and the counting was taken up in the evening.

    YSRCP’s V.V. Surya Narayana Raju, Pothula Sunitha, Bommi Israel, Chandragiri Yesuratnam and Marri Rajasekhar were elected as they secured 22 votes each. The other two candidates Kola Guruvulu and Jayamangala Venkataramna were polled 21 votes each but Kola Guruvulu was declared elected on the basis of second preference votes.

    The result came as a big setback to Jagan Mohan Reddy-led YSRCP, which was confident of a clean sweep.

    In the 175-member Assembly, YSRCP has 151 members and it was confident of securing votes of four rebel MLAs of TDP and the lone MLA of Jana Sena Party (JSP).

    TDP, which had 23 seats in the Assembly, was left with 19 members as four others had switched sides to YSRCP.

    Both the parties had issued whips to their members. YSRCP had taken all precautions by giving clear instructions to the MLAs about the candidates they have to vote for. The ruling party swiftly began an exercise to identify the black sheep.

    The win has given TDP a big moral victory. It comes close on the heels of winning three graduates’ constituencies in the recently held Council elections.

    When the voting began on Thursday morning, TDP leader Nimmala Kistappa claimed that 16 MLAs of YSRCP are in touch with them. The ruling party, however, dismissed the claim as a mind game being played by the opposition.

    Celebrations broke out in the TDP camp after Thursday’s win. Large number of TDP leaders gathered at party president and former chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu’s residence.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )