12:33:34 PM IST, 24 May 2024
India General Elections 2024 Live Updates: Congress wants to lock Ram Mandir, Modi at Shimla
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live News: Modi said the Congress party wants to lock the Ram temple. He said earlier Congress used to taunt BJP on Ram mandir inauguration date but did not attend the consecration cremeony when invited.
12:29:40 PM IST, 24 May 2024
India General Elections 2024 Live Updates: Modi mocks Congress, says past govts went around the world pleading for help
12:26:49 PM IST, 24 May 2024
India General Elections 2024 Live Updates: Modi on reservation
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live News: Modi said, “For 60 years Congress did not even think that there are poor people in the general category too. They also need reservation, Congress never thought about these communities. Modi came and made 10% reservation for the poor people of general category and there was no fight in this country. Due to this, today people of our society are getting opportunities at different places.”
12:20:15 PM IST, 24 May 2024
India General Elections 2024 Live Updates: Modi takes on Congress on security issue
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live News: Modi said, “When it came to building roads in border states… Congress would get nervous. Congress was afraid that if a road was built, the enemy would enter through the same road. Such timid thinking does not match with Modi’s temperament.”
12:18:59 PM IST, 24 May 2024
India General Elections 2024 Live Updates: Congress lied to the people of HP, PM Modi at Shimla rally
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live News: Modi said, “On one side there is Modi’s guarantee and on the other side there is Congress’s model of destruction. To gain power, Congress lied a lot to the people of Himachal. He said that this will happen in the first cabinet, that will happen.But nothing happened in the first cabinet; rather, the cabinet itself got destroyed.”
My government gave 10% reservation to general category (unreserved). Congress never cared about people of general category
– PM Modi
12:07:52 PM IST, 24 May 2024
India General Elections 2024 Live Updates: All the criminal leaders are in BJP, says Misa Bharti
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live News: “All the criminal leaders are in BJP. Who is Anant Singh? On what grounds a person is granted parole? If the person is not well, or someone in his family has died then parole is given, not to campaign for election. Don’t they understand this?” said RJD candidate from Patliputra Misa Bharti on Bihar Deputy CM Samrat Choudhary’s ‘will put all goons in the jail’ remark.
12:05:44 PM IST, 24 May 2024
India General Elections 2024 Live Updates: Will win for the third time, says Modi
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live News: “BJP-NDA government confirmed in the five phases of elections. Will win for the third time: Narendra Modi at a rally in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh,” said Modi.
12:04:41 PM IST, 24 May 2024
India General Elections 2024 Live Updates: PM Modi speaking live in Shimla
11:59:05 AM IST, 24 May 2024
India General Elections 2024 Live Updates: SC vacation bench adjourns NGO’s plea seeking directions to EC to upload polling station-wise voter turnout data on website
11:50:08 AM IST, 24 May 2024
India General Elections 2024 Live Updates: Supreme Court says it cannot interrupt the polls on Form 17C issue
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live News: Supreme Court has declined to grant any interim relief on application seeking uploading of Form 17C data on Election Commission of India website and publication of booth-wise voter turnout data. Supreme Court said it cannot interrupt the polls. The court has posted the application along with a similar pending plea for later date.
11:37:53 AM IST, 24 May 2024
India General Elections 2024 Live Updates: Manoj Jha slams PM Modi
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live News: Rajya Sabha MP & RJD leader Manoj Jha says, “After saying things about buffalo, Mangalsutra, PM Modi is now saying that they (opposition) will take your tap and cut the electricity. No one can see any big leader in the world saying such things. When despair takes over your mental balance, people say such things. PM Modi said that God had sent him as a messenger. If any of us say such a thing, our family will take us to a doctor that his mind is not working and he is saying that he has direct dialogue with God. PM Modi and his team are rattled due to the reports that he is getting from IB.”
11:34:01 AM IST, 24 May 2024
India General Elections 2024 Live Updates: RJD leader Manoj Jha defends Arvind Kejriwal stance not to resign
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live News: “Why should he (Arvind Kejriwal) resign? This entire case is fabricated. (ex-Jharkhand CM) Hemant Soren is in jail. They (BJP) have planned this… to arrest every opposition leader. They will know the consequences on June 4,” says RJD leader Manoj Jha on Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s ‘won’t resign because it will set precedent’ remark.
11:23:09 AM IST, 24 May 2024
India General Elections 2024 Live Updates: Kapil Sibal wants EC to protect logs of EVMs for 3-4 years
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live News: “The logs of EVMs should be kept protected for three to four years. And we want the Supreme Court to direct the Election Commission to declare the records of every phase of voting before counting so that there are no discrepancies in electing the candidates,” says Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal at a press conference in Delhi.
11:14:29 AM IST, 24 May 2024
India General Elections 2024 Live Updates: Preparations underway for 6th phase
11:03:47 AM IST, 24 May 2024
India General Elections 2024 Live Updates: RJD leader Manoj Jha says ‘Naukri matlab Tejashwi’
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live News: During a press conference in Patna, Bihar, Jha said, “The sixth phase of the Lok Sabha election will be held tomorrow (May 25) and only one phase will be left after it. Five phases of voting have already been conducted and a change is being witnessed in the country, especially in Bihar. Everyone is now saying – ‘Naukri matlab Tejashwi’.”
10:55:44 AM IST, 24 May 2024
India General Elections 2024 Live Updates: Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath welcomes Calcutta High Court decsion on Muslim reservation
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live News: Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath said, “We welcome the decision given by the Calcutta High Court regarding the Muslim reservation. Indian Constitution does not permit to give reservations based on religion. West Bengal CM-TMC government touching the heights of political appeasement gave reservations to 118 Muslims by adding them to the OBC category forcefully. This means they were deliberately snatching away the rights of the OBC. This unconstitutional decision was scrapped by the Calcutta High Court giving a tight slap to the TMC government. This was unconstitutional and this cannot be given permission…We should not create an atmosphere in the country that leads to the division of the country.”
10:39:01 AM IST, 24 May 2024
India General Elections 2024 Live Updates: BJD leader VK Pandian slams BJP, says it should not reduce political discourse to inappropriate levels
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live News: 5T Chairman and BJD leader VK Pandian said, “State BJP unit and all their constituency leaders are not able to come out of their constituencies because of the strategy of the BJD and Naveen babu, they are all fixed in their own constituencies. They are not able to come out. So, somebody has to come out and campaign for them. That is why, national leaders are coming…Actually, they are helping BJD in the sense that the way are abusing the CM – such a popular CM – they are helping BJD in getting higher vote share. It is very sad that they have to reduce the political discourse to such inappropriate levels, it is not good. We are a mature democracy…One should know where to draw the line. Just to get votes, you cannot demean great leaders. History will not forgive those people, also people of Odisha will not forgive, on June 4 we will see the results.”
10:28:21 AM IST, 24 May 2024
India General Elections 2024 Live Updates: Preparations underway for sixth phase
10:27:36 AM IST, 24 May 2024
India General Elections 2024 Live Updates: AAP is a conspiring party, says former AAP MP and Congress’s Patiala candidate Dharamvira Gandhi
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live News: On Swati Maliwal assault case, Congress candidate from Patiala Lok Sabha seat and former AAP MP, Dharamvira Gandhi told ANI, “This is a conspiring party. Kejriwal himself is a man who conspires, I know him very well. The conspiracy under which Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav were removed (from the party) and the atmosphere that was created – it scared me. So, I quit the party…Anything is possible in Aam Aadmi Party.”
10:18:14 AM IST, 24 May 2024
India General Elections 2024 Live Updates: BJP to win all the seats in the final phase, says Uttar Pradesh Deputy CM Brajesh Pathak
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live News: Uttar Pradesh Deputy CM Brajesh Pathak said, “The elections are in the final phase. BJP is winning all the seats in the final phase. Voting for the sixth phase will happen tomorrow. BJP will win all the seats in the seventh phase as well. BJP is winning 80 out of 80 seats.”
10:06:00 AM IST, 24 May 2024
India General Elections 2024 Live Updates: PM Modi to address poll rallies in Himachal, Punjab today
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live News: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address two election rallies in Himachal Pradesh today ahead of the sixth and seventh phase of the Lok Sabha elections on May 25 and June 1.In Himachal Pradesh, election campaigning is intensifying as the Lok Sabha elections are scheduled to be held on June 1, coinciding with six Assembly by-elections in the seventh and final phase.Prominent campaigners from both major political parties, the BJP and Congress, are vigorously supporting their candidates.Himachal Pradesh has four Lok Sabha seats: Hamirpur, Mandi, Shimla, and Kangra. In 2019, the BJP had won all four Lok Sabha seats in the state.
09:47:09 AM IST, 24 May 2024
India General Elections 2024 Live Updates: Owaisi asks voters to vote with hope
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live News: Addressing a public meeting in Uttar Pradesh’s Phulpur, MP & AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi said, “You voted for Congress, Socialist Party, Janta Dal, Janta Party and Samajwadi Party till now but you got nothing and to whom you voted for, you changed their destiny. You let them sit on the throne of either Delhi or Lucknow and to whomsoever you helped succeed, they destroyed us… We have been voting for the last 50-60 years with a sense of fear and that’s why the problems increased. I want you to vote with hope…
09:32:21 AM IST, 24 May 2024
India General Elections 2024 Live Updates: EC is biased, says Bhupesh Baghel
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live News: Former Chhattisgarh CM & Congress leader Bhupesh Baghel said, “When people used to vote through ballot paper, election commission used to release the data of voting percentage within 24 hrs. Today, in the digital era, the election commission doesn’t give the data even after 8-10 days and when it gives, the percentage increases by 6-8%. It means the election commission is biased…”
09:25:34 AM IST, 24 May 2024
India General Elections 2024 Live Updates: Neither women nor foreigners are safe in Bengal, says BJP MP
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live News: On the killing of a BJP worker in Nandigram and murder of Bangladesh MP Anwarul Azim Anar in Kolkata, BJP MP Dilip Ghosh says, “Neither women nor foreigners are safe in Bengal. People will have to think about it.”
09:17:21 AM IST, 24 May 2024
India General Elections 2024 Live Updates: INDIA bloc’s Ujjwal Singh says under BJP, Allahabad lost importance
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live News: “What do the farmers want? Electricity, tubewell, and lift canal so that they get water for their crops. The BJP keeps boasting of its double-engine government and does nothing on the ground,” said INDIA bloc candidate Ujjwal Raman Singh.
09:01:29 AM IST, 24 May 2024
India General Elections 2024 Live Updates: People have decided to make Modi prime minister for 3rd term, says HP BJP chief
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live News: Himachal Pradesh BJP President Dr Rajeev Bindal said, “People of the state are excited to listen to their leader…People in large numbers are coming here to listen to him (PM Modi)…All the people here have decided to make PM Modi prime minister for the third term.”
08:51:56 AM IST, 24 May 2024
India General Elections 2024 Live Updates: BJP hopeful of better performance in Kashmir
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live News: Jammu & Kashmir BJP General Secretary Ashok Koul told ANI, “After delimitation, South Kashmir seat’s configuration has changed. It has never been won by the BJP. But the BJP has strengthened its organisation in Kashmir and that can be seen. In 2014 and 2019, we struggled to have people work on polling booths for us but today we have gained much strength and we are working on what the party has decided. It will give the results… People have voted in large numbers in this year’s election, I appeal to people to come out and vote even more on the coming election day. I appeal to people to vote in the favour of the candidate for which PM Modi has appealed.”
08:38:09 AM IST, 24 May 2024
India General Elections 2024 Live Updates: EC transfers Ludhiana, Jalandhar Police Commissioners
The ECI has appointed Nilabh Kishore, IPS 1998 Batch (currently posted as ADGP STF Punjab, Shahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar), as Police Commissioner Ludhiana and Rahul S, IPS 2008 Batch (currently posted as DIG-cum- Director Vigilance Bureau Punjab, Shahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar), as Police Commissioner Jalandhar.
A letter has been sent to the Chief Electoral Officer, Punjab by ECI in this regard.
08:26:44 AM IST, 24 May 2024
India General Elections 2024 Live Updates: BJP’s candidate from Mandi Lok Sabha seat Kangana Ranaut offers prayers at Bijli Mahadev Temple in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh.
08:26:17 AM IST, 24 May 2024
India General Elections 2024 Live Updates: Some people have made a joke of the Indian Constitution, says Acharya Pramod Krishnam
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live News: “Some people have made a joke of the Indian Constitution; they speak nonsense in their speeches. Some say we will give 50 per cent reservations, while some claim to give 70 per cent reservations. There is a cap in providing reservations as per the Supreme Court’s order, but people who claim to uphold the Constitution are working against it. Leaders of opposition parties want to loot the country, and PM Modi is a hurdle in their plan, so they want him to lose. They can go to any extent to take hold of Delhi’s chair (referring to Prime Minister post),” spiritual leader Acharya Pramod Krishnam was quoted as saying by PTI.
08:38:27 AM IST, 24 May 2024
India General Elections 2024 Live Updates: Campaigning ends on Thursday
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live News: Campaigning ended on Thursday for the 6th phase of Lok Sabha elections in 58 constituencies across six states and two Union territories, including all the seven seats in Delhi. Besides the national capital, polling for the sixth round of the marathon seven-phase elections will be held Saturday in 14 seats in Uttar Pradesh, all 10 seats of Haryana, eight seats each in Bihar and West Bengal, six seats in Odisha, four seats in Jharkhand and one seat in Jammu and Kashmir.
08:24:28 AM IST, 24 May 2024
India General Elections 2024 Live Updates: Key candidates of 6th phase
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live News: Among the key contestants are Dharmendra Pradhan (BJP) from Sambalpur (Odisha), Manoj Tiwari (BJP) and Kanhaiya Kumar (Congress) from North East Delhi, Maneka Gandhi (BJP) from Sultanpur (Uttar Pradesh), Mehbooba Mufti (PDP) from Anantnag-Rajouri (Jammu & Kashmir), Abhijit Gangopadhyay (BJP) from Tamluk (West Bengal), and BJP’s Manohar Lal Khattar (Karnal, Haryana), Naveen Jindal (Kurukshetra) and Rao Inderjit Singh (Gurgaon).
08:23:54 AM IST, 24 May 2024
India General Elections 2024 Live Updates: Polling for 6th phase tomorrow
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live News: 58 constituencies in eight states will go to polls on March 25 in the 6th phase of Lok Sabha polls. Till now, voting has been completed in 25 states and Union territories and 428 constituencies out of 543. The last phase of polling is scheduled on June 1 and counting of votes will be taken up on June 4.
