All rights reserved. We went there on the invitation of the Left. READ | Sandeep Dikshit Backs Anand Sharma; Slams Cong-ISF Alliance But Adds 'parties Can Change', Sharma however criticised the move by Congress party members over their alliance with the ISF and had tweeted "Congress’ alliance with parties like ISF and other such forces militates against the core ideology of the party and Gandhian and Nehruvian secularism, which forms the soul of the party. âI believe for the party (MDC) it has really lost the real purpose of its existence to exercise oversight over the ruling party. As the opposition feuds within itself, and as Zanu PF conducts a behind-the-scenes defection diplomacy, it is likely more will defect in the future. Latest news headlines from Zimbabwe Situation, Source: Cockpit conflict ravages Alliance ⦠as an insider says âwe are now a Twitter partyâ â DailyNews. The presence and endorsement (of the) West Bengal PCC President (Chowdhury) is painful and shameful, he must clarify.". âThey appear to be a further indication of the multiple challenges and dysfunction that currently characterise opposition politics,â Pigou said. âIn a way, itâs only surprising that defections of this sort havenât happened earlier. The highly regarded political commentator also warned that this latest development in the MDC could open floodgates for more defections to the ruling party in the near future. ISF is a party that was recently formed by Abbas Siddiqui of the Furfura Sharif shrine in Hooghly of West Bengal. âIt is a party that has plunged into confusion and disarray as far as it has placed the nation into an election mode,â Matutu said further. ", He then conveyed that Anand Sharma 'must have spoken to him about the whys and whats of Congress' decision to enter an alliance with the ISF and Left in Bengal. Ford Kenya's Majimbo Kalasinga is the new Member of Parliament for ... Ford-Kenya Party Reclaims Kabuchai MP Slot. Chowdhary referring to the polls in WB explained "Congress wants to make an atmosphere in the state where all secular forces come together to fight the BJP and Mamata Banerjee led TMC. Senior Congress party leaders got into a heated argument on Twitter a day after an eminent member of the Congress' dissident 'G-23' group, Anand Sharma expressed disappointment over Congress' alliance with parties like Indian Secular Front (ISF) in Kolkata. He also accused the MDC of having lost its purpose as an opposition party, adding that it was now a movement in disarray because of constant bickering. The politics and economy of the country remain polarised and broken. Sharma said that 'Such alliances militate against the core ideology of the party and Gandhian and Nehruvian secularism, that form to be the soul of the party.'. 'Forward'), is an Iraqi electoral coalition formed to gain political control in the 2018 general election.The main components are the Shi’a Islamist Sadrist Integrity Party, the leftist Iraqi Communist Party, the Youth Movement for Change Party… In addition, the senior alliance … Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhary who is the West Bengal Congress President had attended this rally with other senior party members. Your email address will not be published. MLA for East Belfast, Naomi Long has been leader of the Alliance Party since 2016, succeeding David Ford. On the other hand, senior consultant at the International Crisis Group, Piers Pigou, said the defections were a reflection of the politics of opportunism and survival that was inherent in the opposition movement in Zimbabwe. Naomi has served as Lord Mayor of Belfast, MP for East Belfast, MEP for Northern Ireland, and is now MLA for East Belfast. âAnd the other hard truth is that we are so lacking in leadership, cohesion and effective strategies that we are now effectively a Twitter party. "Green Alliance’s way of achieving change: a combination of original thinking, firmly rooted in evidence and powerful coalition building." Third-party certification means that the fire door manufacturer or processor is audited by an independent third party that checks that the fire door / fire doorset is tested appropriately and produced to a consistent standard. âI have taken this decision because I have done a very serious introspection â a reflection of where we are coming from and where we are going and also having considered the amount of time we have lost as a nation and what we want to achieve as a people and especially as politicians. âIn Singapore, with a dominant party state, the small opposition being a decoration that proved democracy existed, the government there became liberal in a whole raft of sectors that were not essential to its survival and political prosperity. Iâm not sure, however, that Zimbabweans can expect that,â Chan said. âZanu PF obviously benefits from this in terms of propaganda value, although it is hard to see this as a truly substantive âwinâ. On Tuesday, Chowdhary reacting to Sharma's tweet said that he and the other party members were in WB to bring all the 'secular forces together' so Congress can avail more seats that the Left has agreed to offer it. âSo, it is a momentous development that will help the incumbent to consolidate his power base in Midlands. âThe situation is not helped by the fact that there is undue influence by a coterie of unelected people who include some politically-naive academics and lawyers who are misadvising the partyâs leadership,â the senior MDC Alliance official told the Daily News. Jubilee vice chair David Murathe has hinted that the party will form a new political alliance ahead of the 2022 General Election. These issues need to be approved by the CWC. Our alliance with the CPM did fetch us 92 seats, while the Left is heading the anti-communal alliance. The Trinamool Congress was part of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance … THE infighting and strategic missteps wracking the MDC Alliance are once again coming to a head, with a worried insider telling the Daily News yesterday that the coalition was becoming “a Twitter party”.. It will work wonders for him,â Masunungure said. He joined the Janata Dal for a while. We are not an alliance partner," Sharma reasoned. âIt is normal that leaders would want to build their power bases from their home provinces before spreading their tentacles elsewhere. The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI; Irish: Páirtí Comhghuaillíochta Thuaisceart Éireann) is a liberal and centrist political party in Northern Ireland.It is Northern Ireland's fifth-largest party, currently holding eight seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly, but has made breakthroughs in recent elections to place third in … âThese members who have crossed the floor from opposition formations to the ruling party do not appear to have done so on the basis of principle or with the support of constituencies that voted for them. Political analysts, including respected University of Zimbabwe political science lecturer, Eldred Masunungure, described the move by Timveous and Chebundo as âa godsendâ for President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu PF. 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This comes after former MDC senator for Zvishavane, and member of the Alliance, Lillian Timveous, as well as Blessing Chebundo â a former MP for Kwekwe Central â dumped the party, amid its ongoing senseless bloodletting and name calling. In the letter, Sudip Banerjee alleged that over the last few … âThe development will also send shock waves within the opposition support base because it is a strategic issue, and there is likely going to be continued migration to Zanu PF. Source: Cockpit conflict ravages Alliance … as an insider says ‘we are now a Twitter party’ – DailyNews STAFF WRITERS. READ | Congress Links PM Modi's Vaccination To Election Campaign, Claims 'message In Everything'. âThere is prestige and funding available in politics. At the same time, political analysts warned yesterday that if the MDC Alliance did not change course and recalibrate its strategies, it risked being decimated by Zanu PF, by the time of the 2023 national elections. âThat was schizophrenia that nevertheless required a form of pragmatic wisdom. Congress that is aiming to defeat the ruling TMC and the contesting BJP in the upcoming Bengal polls, was in Bengal in a rally where Siddiqui joined the Left-Front Congress alliance. © 2000 – 2021 Zimbabwe Situation In November last year, Zanu PF also welcomed former Masvingo Urban legislator, Tongai Matutu, to its ranks â with the former MP also decrying the chaos ravaging the opposition. He questioned, "Instead of talking against communal forces, why is he (Sharma) talking against communists?" âMost of the MDC members are biblical lepers caught between a rock and hard place on whether to remain there because âwe are called MDCs by the other party or if we go there we might be ill-treated on account of us being political activistsâ. âI believe that there is very little that I can say that is not in the public domain, especially in my former party in its various forms, whether itâs MDC T or you call it MDC Alliance. “The CPM after talks with the ISF has given it 30 seats. âIn Chebundo, we are talking about someone with real political capital, having previously defeated Mnangagwa in the 2000 and 2005 parliamentary elections. However, Sharma seems to have trouble with party leaders entering an alliance with the ISF, answering a query on what he thinks about Congress being part of a government Maharashtra that is led by a Hindu party Shiv Sena he claimed "We aren't contesting the elections together. In opposition politics, however, foreign funders are increasingly disillusioned by the unending bitterness that the splits have engendered. "The Congress and ISF were also invited. âThe optics do not look good for the opposition, losing national executive members to the ruling party, especially in this context. Then what is the reason for giving such statements?" âWhile itâs hard to admit this, we are a party in crisis, where we are specialising in fighting each other, rather than our real political foes Zanu PF. Kolkata: Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Sudip Banerjee on Tuesday requested Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to disqualify Sunil Kumar Mondal from the House.Banerjee claimed that Mondal joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) without tendering resignation to the TMC. She is the current Justice Minister of Northern Ireland. The question, he added, was what Zanu PF could offer Zimbabweans having been emboldened by the disintegration of the opposition, as well as what the agenda of the defectors was. There is therefore a need for Nelson Chamisa to re-strategise to counteract that,â Masunungure added. Sharma however criticised the move by Congress party members over their alliance with the ISF and had tweeted "Congress’ alliance with parties like ISF and other such forces militates against the core ideology of the party and Gandhian and Nehruvian secularism, which forms the soul of the party. The Alliance Towards Reforms or Marching Towards Reform, also known by its Arabic short form Saairun (Arabic: سائرون , Saairun, lit. Your email address will not be published. In addition, the senior alliance official also lamented the âundueâ influence that a few âunelected peopleâ â including âsome politically-naive academics and lawyersâ were increasingly having on the coalitionâs leadership. There is a big difference as the settings in Maharashtra were in place to keep the BJP out. âAt this point in time I am speaking on behalf of myself, but I know there are so many other people who are waiting on the fence. We have always been told that ZANU has the monopoly on the brand Cock Pit Party? Trivedi became the Union railway minister in 2011 soon after Mamata Banerjee took over as West Bengal CM. ... Asks Wayanad MP … ", आईएसएफ और ऐसे अन्य दलों से साथ कांग्रेस का गठबंधन पार्टी की मूल विचारधारा, गांधीवाद और नेहरूवादी धर्मनिरपेक्षता के खिलाफ है, जो कांग्रेस पार्टी की आत्मा है। इन मुद्दों को कांग्रेस कार्य समिति पर चर्चा होनी चाहिए थी।, His tweet further read "Congress cannot be selective in fighting communalists but must do so in all its manifestations, irrespective of religion and colour. Shaun Spiers, executive director, Green Alliance From running the largest ever mass parliamentary lobby on climate change and influencing the post-Brexit environmental settlement, to proposing … âIt may be that Chamisa retains some viability as a presidential candidate, more so than Douglas Mwonzora, but I foresee both MDCs having a reduced place in Parliament after the next elections,â Chan said. Stephen Chan, a professor of World Politics at the University of Londonâs School of Oriental and African Studies said with the ructions that have consumed the MDC since the death of its founding leader Morgan Tsvangirai in 2018, the current mass exodus of senior party officials was not surprising. 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Strategic Alliance Management Service P Ltd. (SAMS) is a general management consultancy, exclusively focused on servicing the needs of the health and development sectors in India. Third-party certification is at the heart of the BWF Fire Door Alliance. âMnangagwa wants to be seen as having united the people from his home area to rally behind him after getting the likes of Timveous to his side. THE infighting and strategic missteps wracking the MDC Alliance are once again coming to a head, with a worried insider telling the Daily News yesterday that the coalition was becoming âa Twitter partyâ. When Matutu was also welcomed by Mnangagwa at State House, he indicated that his coming to Zanu PF was a prelude to more MDC officials joining the ruling party from the ever-squabbling opposition. âI would like to believe that if a sign or signal is given that all is well and they are welcome, I can tell you that by 2023 there will be an amazing number of people who will follow their conscience,â Matutu said then.