ELECTION TRACKER : NDA SUPPORT JUMPING ; Desperate Sonia woke up
***Former JD(U) Rajya Sabha MP N K Singh joined the BJP this Saturday.
***Senior journalist M J Akbar also took a plunge in active politics by joining the saffron party, expected to be official spokesman .
***Aizaz Ilmi, brother of AAP leader Shazia Ilmi, also joined the BJP Saturday. He is likely to campaign for BJP candidate, former Army Chief Gen V K Singh, in Ghaziabad against his own sister, Shazia.
*** Pawan Kalyan, a popular Telgu film actor and leader of the Jana Sena, met BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi,against the wishes of his elder brother and Union minister K. Chiranjeevi. He confirmed his alliance with NDA to support Modi as prime minister.
***Shatrughan Sinha offered full dedication to NaMo and said,"Now onwards my only aim, like Arjuna who focused only on the eyes of moving fish, is to make my action hero (Narendra Modi) prime minister"."Now onwards my only aim, like Arjuna who focused only on the eyes of moving fish, is to make my action hero (Narendra Modi) prime minister".
GROWING DISSENT IN NDA :
***BJP split wide open: Jaswant Singh hits out, Sushma Swaraj pained over denial of ticket to veteran leader.Sources close to Jaswant said he was likely to resign from the BJP on Sunday, and file his nomination as an independent candidate from Barmer on Monday.
***Shiv Sena warns BJP that Advani era is not yet over in Indian politics, his humiliation can have ramifications.
***Desperate Sonia Gandhi woke up of the realities on last moment to save her sinking ship at Rae Bareli to show some work. She asked the HRD ministry to set up a national women’s varsity in her constituency,Rae Bareli. But in her utmost fear and desperation refused to draw lessons from the fiasco over its move to promulgate a series of ordinances on corruption related bills.She is trying again, and asked the HRD ministry to get the law ministry to clear an ordinance to set up a national women’s university in Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s constituency Rae Bareli.