Cong looking to monsoon for electoral harvest in four states

Congress sources said the leadership could take a call on the issue after getting reports on how the monsoon will be progressing.

Haryana being a predominantly agriculture state,a good and timely monsoon could make farmers happy and Congress in that case could go for elections in October,along with the poll in Maharashtra,they said.

Congress’ success in Lok Sabha elections in Haryana where the party won nine of the ten seats has also prompted such thinking.

Though BJP and INLD had formed an alliance in the state and Bhajan Lal-led Janhit Congress too tried to cut into its vote,Congress had made mincemeat of both the challenges. Jharkhand is currently under Governor’s rule,with the Assembly under suspended animation. Fresh Efforts have also started for installation of a Congress-JMM Government.

Though the top leadership of Congress and JMM are not in favour of forming an alternative government and are even talking of advancing the assembly elections,MLAs from the two parties as well as from RJD are very keen.

Jharkhand has turned out to be a different cup of tea for Congress where a sizable section of partymen is becoming wary of aligning with any party including Shibu Soren’s JMM and Lalu Prasad’s RJD in the elections.

The Centre had only recently said there is no cause of worry for now over the delay in progress of monsoon but asked the states to come up with alternative plans to handle the situation in case of deficient rainfall this year.

The delay in monsoon appears worrisome as the weather office had said a couple of days back that the country had received just over 50 per cent of the normal rainfall so far this season.