MC Election Update Today February 6: Charanjit Singh Chaani is Congress' CM face for Punjab

A woman holds a walking cane as her inked finger is seen after casting her vote at a polling station. (Representative image: Reuters)

Highlights:

-- Charanjit Singh Chaani will be Congress' CM Face for Punjab

-- BJP postpones release of poll manifesto for UP election after Lata Mangeshkar's death

-- BJP alleges attack on Babita Phogat's convoy by SP-RLD workers

-- Congress , Left parties form pre-poll alliance in Manipur

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Charanjit Singh Chaani will be Congress' CM Face for Punjab

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi announces Congress' chief ministerial candidate for the upcoming Punjab Assembly elections 2022

"Punjab CM will come from a poor family, Chaani will be CM face for the upcoming Punjab Assembly elections," says Rahul Gandhi

#WATCH | Congress leader Rahul Gandhi announces Congress' chief ministerial candidate for the upcoming Punjab Assembly elections 2022

"Punjab CM will come from a poor family, Chaani will be CM face for the upcoming Punjab Assembly elections," says Rahul Gandhi pic.twitter.com/SvnhvYAY3r

— ANI (@ANI) February 6, 2022

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addresses rally in Ludhiana

I met Navjot Singh Sidhu 40 years ago but he doesn't know that he met Rahul Gandhi. I was in the Doon School where he came to play a cricket match: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in Ludhiana

Punjab Congress President Navjot Singh Sidhu on Congress CM Face

I have accepted Rahul Gandhi's decision...if I am given decision-making power, I will finish the mafia, improve people's lives. If not given power, I will walk with a smile with whomever you make CM: Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu in Ludhiana

#WATCH | I have accepted Rahul Gandhi's decision...if I am given decision-making power, I will finish the mafia, improve people's lives. If not given power, I will walk with a smile with whomever you make CM: Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu in Ludhiana pic.twitter.com/pS71BUBkhW

— ANI (@ANI) February 6, 2022

Punjab polls: BJP questions Rahul's  locus standi to name Cong CM face 

The BJP on Sunday questioned the locus standi of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to announce his party's chief ministerial face for the Punjab Assembly polls, saying he doesn't hold any position in the party right now. Rahul Gandhi on Sunday arrived in Ludhiana for a virtual rally and he will announce the chief ministerial face of the party.

"Rahul Gandhi does not hold any position in the party so in what capacity and authority will he be announcing the party's CM candidate today," Union Minister for Jal Shakti and BJP leader Gajendra Singh Shekhawat asked in a statement. While choosing the CM candidate is indeed the party's prerogative but people of Punjab would like to know what authority Gandhi has in the party right now, other than being one of the 50-odd MPs belonging to the Congress, he said.

Shekhawat said Gandhi had resigned as the Congress president in 2019 in the aftermath of the party's defeat in the Lok Sabha polls.

BJP postpones release of poll manifesto for UP election after Lata Mangeshkar's death

The release of the BJP manifesto for Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls was postponed today due to the demise of Lata Mangeshkar, reported news agency ANI.

PM Modi cancels meetings, BJP postpones release of poll manifesto after Lata Mangeshkar's death

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's virtual meeting and all BJP's programs including the release of poll manifesto and Union Minister Nitin Gadkari's meeting, stands cancelled. Small scale constituency-level programs will be held, after honouring Lata Mangeshkar: Goa CM Pramod Sawant

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's virtual meeting, & all BJP programs including the release of poll manifesto, & Union Minister Nitin Gadkari's meeting, stands cancelled. Small scale constituency-level programs will be held, after honouring #LataMangeshkar: Goa CM Pramod Sawant

BJP alleges attack on Babita Phogat's convoy by SP-RLD workers

The BJP has accused SP-RLD workers of attacking the convoy of wrestler and party leader Babita Phogat here while she was campaigning for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly polls and claimed four people were injured in the incident. However, police denied the charge of Phogat's convoy being attacked, saying two workers of the BJP and RLD had exchanged blows in which one of them got injured.

Congress, Left parties form pre-poll alliance in Manipur

A pre-poll alliance called Manipur Progressive Secular Alliance (MPSA) has been formed in the state by six non-BJP parties - the Congress, CPI, CPI (M), Forward Block, RSP and JD (S) for the February-March Assembly poll. The MPSA leaders said that they have agreed to implement a 18-point agenda if they voted to power in Manipur. The agenda includes saving the territorial integrity of Manipur and historical boundaries of the state, to enact the right to free healthcare laws to benefit the people of Manipur, to provide unemployment allowance to the youths of the state, to preserve communal harmony in the state and to deliver economic justice by ensuring livelihood income to every family in Manipur, the leaders said.

Manipur CM N Biren Singh files nomination

Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh has filed his nomination papers from Heingang constituency in Imphal East district for the upcoming assembly election. State BJP president A Sharda Devi accompanied the party candidate when he reached the office of the returning officer.

It's 90% versus 10% now, says Yogi Adityanath on UP polls

Claiming that the BJP is heading to a landslide victory in Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has said that the electoral battle now will be "90 percent versus 10 percent" in favour of his party instead of "80 percent versus 20 percent".