“Jan 30 rally not for making platform for LS 2024 polls”

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Chief Minister Manik Saha fielded from Town Bordowali seat Union Minister Pratima Bhoumik fielded from Dhanpur seat ruled the state unabated for 25 years. The BJP top brass was in talks with TIPRA, a regional party founded by former Congress leader and royal scion Pradyot Deb Barman, for a prepoll alliance, which has now been ruled out.

Guwahati (Agencies):

Assam Chief Minister

Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday said that women should give birth to children before they attain 30 years of age. Sarma was speaking at a function at Sankardev Kalakhetra in Guwahati.

Addressing the women present at the function, he said, “We are trying to stop child marriage because if you give birth to children at a very young age, you would face problems. Similarly, if you do the same thing after reaching a higher age, like 30 or 35, there must be complications. Many people keep delaying these things, and it gives rise to problems.”

The Chief Minister also proposed an ‘ideal age’ for women to give birth between the ages of 22 and 30.

YOUNG START-UP CONCLAVE

Srinagar (PTI): Congress’ rally in Kashmir on January 30 after the Bharat Jodo Yatra ends is “not a coalition building exercise” or to build a platform for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, Jairam Ramesh said.

To a question at a press conference on whether some Opposition leaders such as that of the Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party, and Trinamool Congress not attending the event would be a setback, he said “No, absolutely not.”

“I believe somebody from the BSP is coming. I am not entirely sure. But, I do not see the absence of anybody who has been invited as a setback. They may have other preoccupations,” Ramesh claimed.

Controversies And Barbs Kept Spotlight On Bjy

Srinagar: Rahul Gandhi’s Burberry T-shirt and his scraggly beard, V D Savarkar and north India’s chilling winters, the Kathua rape and Covid… As the curtains fall, the Bharat Jodo Yatra replays in a patchwork of issues personal and the overtly political with controversies aplenty to ensure the spotlight seldom wavered. The Yatra started from the southern tip of the country on September 7 and ends on January 30 in Srinagar.

NO COALITION POSSIBLE WITHOUT CONGRESS: RAMESH

Awantipora: The Congress must be the “fulcrum” of any Opposition alliance to take on the BJP in 2024 Lok Sabha as no coalition can be “meaningful” or “relevant” without it, Jairam Ramesh said on Saturday. The Congress leader also said that in his view, the Congress should be preparing to fight on its own in every state in the 2029 LS polls.

Rahul Gandhi Pays Floral Tribute To Martyrs Of Pulwama Terror Attack

Srinagar: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday paid floral tribute to the martyrs of 2019 Pulwama terror attack at Lethpora. He stopped the Yatra for a while at Lethpora in Pulwama and laid a flower bouquet at the spot where 40 CRPF jawans were killed in the terrorist attack. Rahul Gandhi had resumed Yatra from Chersoo village in Anantnag district.