Even as the nomination process for Amethi and Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seats concluded on Friday, uncertainty continues over whether Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will contest from these constituencies. .
The ongoing Lok Sabha elections will go through seven phases and counting of votes is scheduled for June 4. In the first two stages, 191 constituencies voted; in the first stage, 102 constituencies voted; and on April 26, 89 seats participated. The next stage is scheduled for May 7.
Wednesday’s Lok Sabha election news highlights
1. Congress accuses BJP of trying to amend the Constitution to abolish reservations: The Congress claims that the BJP’s ‘400 Pals’ slogan is a ploy to change the Constitution and abolish reservations. attacked.
2. Prime Minister Modi reiterates his stand on religion-based reservations: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reaffirmed his opposition to religion-based reservations and called on Congress and allies to clarify their stand.
3. Uddhav Thackeray apologizes for supporting Modi: Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray has expressed regret for supporting Prime Minister Modi in the past elections, saying that the government is accused of betrayal.
4. Ghulam Nabi Azad welcomes election postponement: Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) leader Ghulam Nabi Azad has postponed the 2024 assembly polls in Anantnag Rajouri constituency and offered relief to several political parties. He praised the election commission’s decision to grant the election.
5. Record-breaking heatwave affects voter turnout: Eastern India is experiencing its hottest April on record, with a scorching heatwave claiming nine lives. Analysts have blamed the low turnout in the ongoing 2024 Lok Sabha elections on extreme weather conditions.
Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Step-by-step schedule
• Phase 3 – May 7th
• Phase 4 – May 13th
• Phase 5 – May 20th
• Phase 6 – May 25th
• Phase 7 – June 1st
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Thursday, May 2, 2024 01:59 PM
2024 Parliamentary Elections Live: ‘400 par seats is a joke’ says Tharoor
Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Live: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor dismisses Bharatiya Janata Party’s claim of winning ‘400 seats’ in Lok Sabha polls as a joke, saying even ‘200 seats’ is a difficult target It was considered that Tharoor called the ruling party’s defeat a “foregone conclusion” and suggested that it would be impossible to reach “300 seats”.
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Thursday, May 2, 2024 01:44 PM
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: Shrikant Shinde files nomination from Kalyan
CM Eknath Shinde’s son Shrikant Shinde filed his candidature from Kalyan Lok Sabha seat on Thursday.
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Thursday, May 2, 2024 01:18 PM
Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Live: PM Modi’s ‘Love Jihad’ Attack on Parliament
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched a fresh attack on the opposition party INDI Alliance, accusing it of “dangerous intentions”. He was referring to the alleged “vote for jihad” appeal made by Samajwadi Party leader Maria Alam Khan, niece of Congress leader Salman Khurshid.
“The leader of the INDI alliance exposed his strategy before the nation. The INDI alliance called on Muslims to go to the jihad vote. It does not come from children of origin. The INDI alliance said all Muslims should come together and vote,” PM Modi said.
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Thursday, May 2, 2024 01:00 PM
Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Live: Yogi slams Congress-SP alliance
Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Live: “Punish the Samajwadi Party for allying with the Congress, a party designed to regress by handing constitutional reservations to minorities for vote bank politics.” UP CM Yogi attacks Oppn.
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Thu, 02 May 2024 12:53 PM
Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Live: Omar Abdullah files nomination for Baramulla seat
Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Live Coverage: National Conference Vice-President Omar Abdullah on Thursday filed nomination papers for Baramulla Lok Sabha constituency in Jammu and Kashmir. Abdullah was accompanied by NC State Treasurer Shammi Oberoi and Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee senior vice-chairman GN Monga, along with Baramulla vice-chairman Minga Sherpa, who has returned to the constituency. I have submitted my nomination papers before Mr.
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Thu, 02 May 2024 12:42 PM
Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Live: BJP conducts roadshow at SP fort
It is rare to witness the saffron party’s show of strength in Mainpuri. The three-kilometre-long Bharatiya Janata Party roadshow unfolded in Mainpuri city, in the heart of Yadav territory, where Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Jaiveer Singh holds the post of MLA and is a minister in the state cabinet.
(Input from Hemendra Chaturvedi)
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Thursday, May 2, 2024 12:25 PM
Parliamentary Elections 2024 Live: UP CM Yogi’s Mainpuri Roadshow Bulldozer
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath leads a roadshow in Mainpuri, the hometown of late Mulayam Singh Yadav, in support of BJP candidate Jaiveer Singh. The roadshow will span 3 kilometers and involve 14 bulldozers.
Dimple Yadav is the SP candidate here and won the elections two years ago, defeating the BJP candidate by a margin of around 300,000. Although the SP has not lost a Mainpuri Lok Sabha election here since 1996, the BJP has made inroads and in the 2022 assembly elections, the BJP has won two out of the four assembly constituencies in Mainpuri district.
The elections were held in 2022 after the death of SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav.
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Thursday, May 2, 2024 12:16 PM
2024 Lok Sabha Elections Live: Kharji accuses PM Modi of spreading ‘lies’
Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Live: In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge accused him of using lies in his speech and of amplifying it by NDA candidates .
“Out of desperation, I used language unbecoming of a prime minister,” Kharji said.
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Thursday, May 2, 2024 11:27 AM
Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Live: PM Modi in Gujarat
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Coverage: We have connected water to 14 billion houses in 10 years, but the Kong party has connected water to only 3 billion houses in 60 years, PM Modi says at a rally in Gujarat mentioned in.
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Thursday, May 2, 2024 10:41
Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Live: Sisodia Bail Petition in Delhi High Court
Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Live: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Manish Sisodia granted bail by city court in separate case against him in connection with alleged irregularities in Delhi excise policy for 2021-22 After it was rejected, the case approached the Delhi High Court. The petition was mentioned by advocate Rajat Bharadwaj in a bench of Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Manmeet PS Arora. “This is a bail application by an MLA. What is urgent is the ongoing elections,” Bharadwaj said. The court agreed to hear the matter tomorrow.
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Thursday, May 2, 2024 10:37
Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Live: Lalu Prasad Yadav vs Rohini Acharya in Saran, Bihar. surprised?read this
Rohini Acharya, daughter of RJD leader Lalu Prasad Yadav, is fighting to regain the Saran Lok Sabha seat historically held by her father. However, her candidacy faces opposition from Lalu Prasad Yadav, a local farmer from Bihar’s Saran district. The farmer, who shares his name with the veteran politician, has a history of participating in elections, adding a unique twist to the campaign.
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Thursday, May 2, 2024 09:47 AM
Parliamentary Elections 2024 Live: Re-voting begins at Ajmer booth
Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Live: Re-voting has begun at booths in Ajmer Lok Sabha district. The election commission canceled his previous vote on April 26 because the voter list was in the wrong place. Security has been stepped up for the new vote.
A spokesperson for the Department of Elections said voting at the Nanci booth will begin at 7 a.m. and end at 5 p.m.
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Thursday, May 2, 2024 09:31 AM
Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Live: Kunal Ghosh claims TMC knew about school recruitment scam before 2021 polls.
Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Live: “The party was well aware of the fact that there was massive corruption and extortion in lieu of employment in the school education sector. We were aware of that,” Kunal said. Ghosh, who was recently removed from the TMC’s West Bengal general secretary post, said this in an interview on Bengali news channel ABP Ananda.
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Thursday, May 2, 2024 08:58 AM
Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Live: AAP rallies in Bharuch and Bhavnagar today
Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Live: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s wife Sunita Kejriwal leaves from the CM’s residence on her way to the airport. She will campaign for Aam Aadmi Party candidates in Bharuch and Bhavnagar in Gujarat later today.
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Thursday, May 2, 2024 08:50 AM
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: Former CBI official throws hat at Andhra polling booth
Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Live: Former IPS officer VV Lakshmi Narayana is known for overseeing the 2012 ‘quid pro quo’ case and arrest of YSR Congress president and current CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy. He started his own political party. Currently contesting assembly polls in Visakhapatnam (northern), Narayana’s Jai Bharat National Party has won 15 seats in Lok Sabha (10 in AP and 5 in Telangana) and 15 seats in Andhra Pradesh. It is fielding candidates for 76 parliamentary seats.
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Thursday, May 2, 2024 08:22 AM
Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Live: “Some people in my party make me a weirdo,” says former Haryana home minister Anil Vij.
Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Live: Former Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij, who was left out of the cabinet in the recent cabinet reshuffle, on Wednesday expressed his feelings that he feels like an “outsider” in his party. .
Speaking anonymously at a rally in Ambala, the Bharatiya Janata Party leader said, “Mana kuch logo ne mujhe meri party, I am bana diya hai he started, paranthu kai baar has started.” , (may) aapno se bhi jada kaam kar jaate hai.” It is true that there are some people in my party who make me an outsider, but sometimes outsiders do a better job than my own people),” ANI reported.
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Thursday, May 2, 2024 07:58 AM
Congress 2024 Live: Rahul Gandhi holds rally in Karnataka
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: Rahul Gandhi will hold election rallies in Karnataka’s Shimoga and Raichur on Thursday. On Friday, the last day to submit candidates for Amethi and Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seats, Mr Gandhi is scheduled to hold a rally in Pune, Maharashtra.
