Mandate 2023: Take a look at party leaders' promises during Assembly elections campaign
The stage is set for assembly elections in five states- Mizoram, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh- with the Election Commission announcing the dates for the electoral battle. Voting will happen between November 7 and November 30 while the counting of votes will be held on December 3.
With the Telangana elections just around the corner, senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi promised to undertake a caste survey in the state if his party gets elected. (Image: PTI)
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah, speaking at a rally in Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh, on October 19, accused the Congress of supporting Naxalism and claimed that occurrences of Naxal violence have decreased by 52 percent under the Narendra Modi government's nine-year rule. He asked people to vote for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the State currently run by the Congress, pledging that his party would rid the state of the Naxal problem. (Image: PTI)
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah attacked the BJP and its leaders for accusing the Congress government led by him of corruption, claiming that the JP Nadda-led party is already seeking lame excuses to explain its humiliation in the next elections. He was responding to the BJP's claim that crores of rupees confiscated from contractors during recent IT department inspections were commission money gathered at the behest of the ruling Congress in Karnataka to bankroll the party's election campaign in five states. (Image: PTI)
While addressing the issue of delay in the announcement of the Congress' CM candidate in Rajasthan, CM Ashok Gehlot said that all the decisions are being made by everyone's views and opinions. (Image: PTI)
The opposition BJP in Bihar announced that it had "closed" its doors to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who had abandoned the saffron party a year earlier, depriving it of power in the state. In response to questions from journalists about the JD(U) leader's remarks during the convocation ceremony of Mahatma Gandhi Central University in Motihari, state BJP president Samrat Choudhary made the remark. (Image: PTI)
