Today's Witness Monday, 14 July 2025, 06:09 AM, ( Updated at 11:30 AM Daily)
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Monday, 25 December, 2023 11:43:PM
The proposal from Mamta Didi seconded by Arvind Kejriwal and Uddhav Thackeray to promote Kharge, Congress President a very clever step because during the last elections the BJP was able to secure good number of votes of Dalits source says. Kharge, a Dalit, if projected as PM facing Mamta Didi, added there is every possibility that Dalit voters come back and support the I.N.D.I.A. alliance, and a Congress source says, UP, MP, Rajasthan. Chattisgarh, Punjab, Bihar, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Haryana and Delhi have sizeable strengths of SC, ST and Dalits; these leaders feel that the move is most likely to give the alliance an upper hand source says. Nitish Kumar and Lalu Yadav probably did not support the proposal and kept mum and left the meeting, source says. In press conferences, both were also absent source says. All alliance partners agreed to complete the seat-sharing decision and start rallies before 21st January 2024 source says. The leaders also decided to manage 8/10 meetings of alliance in different parts of the country source says.