Amid the reports of the strife between ruling BJP-Jannayak Janata Party(JJP) alliance in Haryana, 4 independent MLAs meet BJP state in-charge Biplab Kumar Deb expressing confidence in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership.

Deb said, Haryana MLAs Dharam Pal Gonder, Rakesh Daulatabad, Randhir Singh and Somveer Sangwan met him on Thursday and expressed confidence in PM Modi’s leadership.

Deb said, the party believes in PM Modi’s slogan Sabka Saath and Sabka Vikas and is leaving no stone unturned for the growth and development of Haryana. The BJP had taken the support of JJP to form the government in Haryana in 2019, since it failed to get a majority in the state election.

JJP leader Dushyant Chautala has been holding the Deputy Chief Minister’s post since 2019, after the government formation with Manohar Lal Khattar as the Chief Minister. There has been tension arising between the two parties as leaders of the two parties had a war of words with each other. Deb even said the JJP did no favor to the BJP by supporting it, as JJP is also part of the government in Haryana.

There have been reports of recent disagreement between the two parties on contesting the upcoming elections in 2024 together. Chautala when asked whether the two parties will contest together in 2024, he diplomatically replied, he is not an astrologer and cannot predict what the future has in store for the parties. He told the media that both parties will contest for 90 seats on their own in the 2024 elections.  

The news on Twitter started spreading like wildfire as diverse comments on the tweet started appearing, where one user said BJP should take support of these four candidates as the alliance government has done a lot of corruption in the state.

Another user hailed the BJP alliance government and said, Har Har Modi Ghar Ghar Modi. Another user said that this is all hypocrisy of the BJP in Haryana.  

A dispute over Aam Aadmi Party MP Raghav Chadha’s official bungalow is ongoing. The matter is to be moved to a higher Court after a Delhi Court put on hold an order canceling its allotment. The Rajya Sabha Secretariat had ordered Raghav Chadha to vacate the bungalow in Central Delhi’s Pandara Road, which he had been allotted a year ago.

He was told that the bungalow was above his grade as a first-time MP. However, the Patiala Court had paused the order saying Chadha, who was staying with his parents in the bungalow, could not be thrown out and the proper process had to be followed as per the law. The next hearing will take place on July 10.

Head of the Rajya Sabha Housing Committee CM Ramesh said the ruling will be challenged.

He further added that Chadha, as a first-time MP, was not entitled to a type 7 bungalow. These types of bungalows are assigned to former Chief Minister, former Union Ministers, and former Governors. He cited BJP MP Radha Mohan Das had been moved from a type 7 bungalow to a type 5 bungalow.

Chadha had approached the Court after receiving the cancellation notice. He asked the notice to be declared illegal and demanded Rs 5.50 lakhs in damages for mental agony and harassment.

He told the Court that he had been allotted a type 5 bungalow on July 6, 2022. On August 29, he wrote a letter to the Rajya Sabha Secretariat requesting a Type 7 bungalow. He was then assigned the current bungalow from the Rajya Sabha pool on September 3.

Chadha said, he accepted the allotment and shifted with his parents in November, after carrying out renovations. He further added that the allotment was canceled without a reason or logic and he was informed about the same on March 3, 2023.

A mega opposition meet is scheduled to take place in Patna, Bihar on June 23. A meeting that is expected to bring a series of opposition parties from across the country together at the same table.

The meeting will be attended by Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge and former chief Rahul Gandhi, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren.

The meeting will also witness the presence of Nationalist Congress Party supremo Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena (UBT) Chief Uddhav Thackeray and Samajwadi Party National President Akhilesh Yadav and Bihar’s Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav.

Leaders of the left front are also likely to join the meeting.

The huge meeting convened by Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal(United) supremo Nitish Kumar was earlier slated to take place on June 12. Reports said the decision to change in dates was taken after Congress announced Kharge and Gandhi would not be able to be part of the meeting on June 12 due to prior commitments.

This will be the first mega meeting of all the opposition parties together, which was in planning for almost two months now. Bihar CM Kumar had started his bid for opposition unity against the Centre ruling BJP in April when he met Kharge and Gandhi in Delhi with his deputy Yadav and other leaders of Bihar Mahagathbandhan.

The Agenda of the meeting in Patna is expected to be deciding a common strategy for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Opposition parties have been throwing signals of unity for some months now, the most recent one, the boycott of the inauguration of the new Parliament building by 20 like-minded opposition parties, the show of strength- leaders of different parties shared the stage while attending the swearing-in ceremony of Siddaramaiah as Karnataka CM on May 20.

Congress leader KC Venugopal said they believe in unity and are committed to the purpose of defending democracy. He further added they would surely defeat the divisive forces which are in power at the Centre.