Congressional Leader P Chidambaram tweeted citing US presidential candidate Joe Biden
New Delhi:
Congressman P Chidambaram summoned US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Sunday and urged the people of Bihar, who will vote in the Assembly elections from October 28, to choose “hope over fear, unity over the division … and the truth about lies. “
In a series of three tweets posted this morning, Chidambaram referred to a statement repeated by Biden when challenging Donald Trump for the US presidency, and asked people across India to take a similar vote.
“Mr. Joe Biden, Democratic candidate in the US elections, said yesterday: ‘We choose hope over fear, unity over division, science over fiction and yes, truth over lies,'” Chidambaram tweeted, and He added: “It is a good promise that the people of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and elsewhere should take when they go to the polls this month.”
That is a good promise that the people of Bihar, MP and elsewhere should take when they go to the polls this month.
– P. Chidambaram (@PChidambaram_IN) October 18, 2020
Chidambaram also referred to the New Zealand general election – Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s center-left government won yesterday by an unprecedented majority decision – to suggest that “decency and progressive values” can win the election.
The election of Ms. Jacinda Ardern as Prime Minister of New Zealand gives us hope that decency and progressive values can win elections in a democracy.
– P. Chidambaram (@PChidambaram_IN) October 18, 2020
In addition to the Bihar elections, polls for one seat in the Lok Sabha and 56 seats in the Assembly in 12 states, including 28 in Madhya Pradesh, are scheduled for the first week of November.
In Bihar, the Congress is part of the Mahagathbandhan – an opposition alliance led by the RJD – and published its manifesto yesterday, promising 10 lakh permanent government jobs and the immediate repeal of the central government’s controversial agricultural laws.
Congress will contest 70 seats as part of an agreement with the RJD (which will contest 144 seats) and the Left parties (which will contest 29).
Spread over three phases, the results of the Bihar elections will be declared on 10 November. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his JDU, backed by the BJP, hope to secure a sixth term in power.
In Madhya Pradesh, polls became necessary after 22 MLAs in Congress resigned and triggered the fall of Kamal Nath’s government in March. The party defends the 27 seats it won in the 2018 elections and currently has 88 seats in the 230-member Assembly.
The US presidential elections, one of the most closely watched electoral contests in the world, are scheduled for November 3, the same day that the second phase of the Bihar elections will take place.
Earlier this week, the 2020 American Indian Attitude Survey (IAAS) indicated that 72 percent of registered American Indian voters had voted or planned to vote for Biden and his elected vice president Kamala Harris.
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