Former Minister and Senior Congress Leader Krishna Tirath Joins BJP

Senior Congress leader and former women and child development minister in the Manmohan Singh government, Krishna Tirath has formally joined the BJP. The senior leader met the BJP president Amit Shah this morning and took the decision that has taken the Congress party as a surprise.

Tirath was one of the most distinguished faces of the Congress in Delhi.  After the conclusion of her meeting with Mr Shah, she said, "This is about ideology. I want to serve people and I have come here with that mindset and that ideology only."

Announcement of Tirath's induction into the BJP came at the same time when Ajay Maken, Congress' election in charge in Delhi, was holding a press conference. Mr Maken accepted that he had just been informed of such development. He said, "It shows the desperation of the BJP, they have to import leaders from other parties because they have no faith in their own leaders."   

Sources say that the Congress leaders, in order to duck the massive embarrassment, are saying that Ms Tirath made this hasty decision in the light of the party denying her a ticket in the coming assembly elections in the capital city.  She contested the general elections last year on a Congress ticket from Delhi and lost to BJP's Udit Raj. 

Ms Krishan Tirath, 59, is the third prominent female leader to join the BJP bandwagon in the last few days; two other leaders being Kiran Bedi and Shazia Ilmi. 

Being a Dalit leader of repute, her exit from Congress is considered to be a big set-back for the party as it is trying to rebuild itself in the capital.

After ruling Delhi for 15 years, the Congress party was almost wiped out in the last assembly elections and was replaced Aam Admi Party as the second most powerful political organization in the city after BJP.  However, due to no party getting a clear-cut majority, fresh elections have been announced. Polling will be done on 7 February, and the results will come out on 10th of the same month.

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BJP’s Intent To Keep The Congress Out Of Power In J&K

The BJP might not have achieved - the full majority with 44 seats - what it was claiming before the elections in J&K. But the results are nothing less than a pleasant surprise for the party.  And the actual number (25) that the party got would definitely have matched the party's strategy makers' speculations. 

Now that the results are out, and all the parties are doing their share of negotiations and counter negotiations. The most logical choice would be an alliance between the PDP and BJP, as the numbers don't support the BJP-NC proposition.

BJP president Amit Shah's media outing yesterday gave a hint about its willingness to keep the Congress out of the power in the state at any cost. The congress has been a part of the last two governments in the state; first with the PDP, after that, in the previous government with the NC. 

Two things are have come to light in J&K: the people of Jammu have voted overwhelmingly for the BJP and the people of the Valley have done the same for the PDP. And for the NC and Congress - both have been voted out of the power.

Now the experts say that to respect the mandate of both Jammu and Kashmir, the BJP and the PDP should come together. But there are people who say that both the parties are like water and oil, they can never gel together. BJP will have to keep mum on the article 370 and the conversion and ghar wapsi kind of things, while the PDP will have to avoid its closeness with the separatists and stop taking in a hardline terminology.  

Any solid news will, hopefully, come by today evening.

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BJP chief Amit Shah says the party has all the options open as far as the formation of government in Jammu and Kashmir is concerned. This statement of the veteran politician comes after the party could manage 25 seats in the 87 member J&K assembly and has come second to the PDP which obtained 28.

Mr Shah has also congratulated the BJP workers in the both J&K and Jharkhand states for being there and seeing that the party does well in the elections. "2014 was the year of unprecedented electoral successes for the BJP," Shah said.

The think tank of the PDP will be sitting tonight to sketch their future course of action. They will have to choose between Congress and the BJP. The political pundits are of the opinion that the PDP should swallow its pride and ally with the BJP for the sake of the development of the state.

On the other hand the BJP has bagged 38 seats in the 81 member assembly of Jharkhand. With a little bit of political mathematics, it should reach the coveted number 41, which is just 3 steps away at the present moment.

For a state like Jharkhand, which has seen 9 governments in 14 years since its inception in 2000, a stable government is like a magic potion. 

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