LS Polls HIGHLIGHTS — DMK Standing Shoulder To Shoulder To Strengthen Congress' Hands: MK Stalin
Lok Sabha Elections HIGHLIGHTS: Follow this space and keep refreshing the page for all the latest updates pertaining to the Lok Sabha Elections 2024.
Chhattisgarh CM Vishnu Deo Sai held a roadshow in Bastar's Jagdalpur.
Tamil Nadu CM & DMK chief MK Stalin addressed a public meeting in Coimbatore today. "To strengthen Congress' hands in the country's second freedom struggle, DMK is standing shoulder to shoulder. Things like social justice, which DMK has always demanded, have been reflected in the Congress manifesto. PM Modi who is always on foreign tours is now on a national tour since the elections have been announced. By whom was the electoral bonds scheme introduced and corruption made legal? It was you (PM Modi). People of Tamil Nadu people know well who is stopping the growth of state. BJP and its B team should be defeated unitedly. Let your vote go to INDIA alliance to save India, to save Tamil Nadu, to save our future generations and to defeat fascism," CM Stalin said.
BRS announces Dr. Marepalli Sudhir Kumar as its candidate from Warangal, for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
In Kalaburagi, Karnataka earlier today, Congress national president Mallikarjun Kharge said, "BJP has a washing machine. It washes out the corruption charges of leaders who have been imprisoned before joining the BJP party. They project them as good leaders. Amit Shah and PM Modi are supporting corrupt people."
Prime Minister Narendra Modi conducts a roadshow in Dausa, Rajasthan. BJP candidate from Dausa, Kanhaiya Lal Meena and state minister Kirodi Lal Meena are also with him.
"We have decided that we will give guaranteed legal MSP to farmers...We will give the farmers of India a farm loan waiver...," says Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during his public address in Tamil Nadu's Tirunelveli.
A case has been registered against Tamil Nadu Bharatiya Janata Party president and party candidate from Coimbatore, K Annamalai and Coimbatore District BJP Secretary Ramesh for allegedly campaigning in the Avarampalayam area last night beyond the permitted campaigning hours.
The election code of conduct is that candidates who are contesting for parliamentary elections should end their campaigning by 10 pm.
Addressing a poll rally in West Bengal's Cooch Behar, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee says: "As soon as the elections come, people come to ask for votes. After the elections, no one is visible, no work is done. We have given a clean candidate but the BJP has given a candidate who is a demon, there are many cases against him. I have all the records against him...I will put forward the entire case."
The Trinamool Congress has fielded Jagadish Chandra Basunia from this seat while the Bharatiya Janata Party has given the ticket to Nitish Pramanik. `
On Modi's statement regarding granting statehood to Jammu and Kashmir and holding Assembly polls, former J&K CM and NC leader Omar Abdullah says: "It is the verdict of the Supreme Court. It would have been a favour for us if he (PM Modi) had conducted elections before the verdict of SC. It is now a compulsion for him. It is the Supreme Court's verdict to conduct elections in J&K before 30th September...As far as statehood is concerned, he could not explain to us till now why was Article 370 removed..."
Addressing a public rally in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur, PM Modi says, "...Congress, National Conference, PDP and all other parties want to take Jammu and Kashmir back to those old days. No one has caused as much damage to Jammu and Kashmir as these family-run parties have done. Here political party means of the family, by the family and for the family..."
NCP-SCP chief Sharad Pawar was never going to join the BJP, said party leader Jayant Patil today.
"It was the effort of some people to take him in that direction but Sharad Pawar continuously rejected it. This is why some people are saying that he was going to go, but I want to say if he was going to join the BJP then why didn't he go (and join the party). This is because their (BJP) idea was not acceptable to him," he said.
Congress leader Digvijaya Singh says: ".. I have complaints with the Election Commission, they don't reply to us on any issue and don't give us time to meet. I have said this in the parliament and outside of the House. I have three basic questions, is it (EVM) a stand-alone machine? Does VVPAT have any connectivity with the internet? Third, I want to know, which software you have installed in the VVPAT? Why don't they reply to these questions? A national party is seeking time since April 2023, but they don't give us time. I have complaints with the ECI, they are totally partial in their work..."
Bharaitiya Janata Party leader Dhairyasheel Mohite Patil has resigned from the primary membership of the party. He also met Nationalist Congress Party - Sharadchandra Pawar party chief Sharad Pawar yesterday.
CPI-M candidate from Pathanamthitta Lok Sabha constituency and former Kerala Finance Minister Thoma Isaac says, "In Kerala, people want Modi to be out. The choice is between Congress and CPM... CAA is a serious issue in Kerala, the Muslim community and democratic-minded people are concerned about it. This has been a very serious problem for Congress, they have not outrightly said that they will withdraw CAA once they come to power. But we have taken the position."
"Inter-religious marriages will continue to take place in Kerala, inter-caste marriage was one of the key slogans of social movements in Kerala and it's totally misleading to call it 'Love-Jihad'. These are the slogans raised to create ill-will between the social groups in Kerala...," he added.
Former Karnataka Chief Minister and rebel BJP leader K S Eshwarappa said he would file his nomination today from Shivamogga Lok Sabha seat.
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Lok Sabha Elections HIGHLIGHTS: Follow this space and keep refreshing the page for all the latest updates pertaining to the Lok Sabha Elections 2024.
PM Modi To Hold Roadshow In Agra On Friday
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a roadshow in support of the BJP candidate for the Lok Sabha polls in Agra on Friday (April 12). "Prime Minister Modi's roadshow will start in Agra at 4 pm on Friday," BJP state general secretary and Legislative Council member Govind Narayan Shukla told PTI on Wednesday.
In Agra, the BJP has again fielded Union Minister S P Singh Baghel as its candidate. On Saturday, PM Modi had conducted a roadshow in Ghaziabad in support of BJP candidate Atul Garg, his first roadshow in Uttar Pradesh after the announcement of polls.
Shukla said Union Home Minister Amit Shah will address public meetings organised in support of the BJP candidates in Moradabad on Friday and Gautam Buddha Nagar on Saturday.
Eshwarappa To File Nomination For Shivamogga Lok Sabha Seat On Friday
Former Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister and rebel BJP leader K S Eshwarappa on Thursday said he would file his nomination for Shivamogga Lok Sabha seat tomorrow. Eshwarappa asserted he would file his nomination in the wake of speculation that he would back off from contesting the polls and said a large number of people would turn up.
"Tomorrow, a large number of people from across the constituency will come as I will be filing my nomination papers. I was not sure that I will get such an overwhelming response during my election campaign," the veteran leader said, as quoted by news agency PTI. He claimed people were backing him because they were realising that the dream of a 'Hindutva' supporter winning the election is going to be fulfilled.
Several Hindutva activists have come out in his support across the eight assembly segments under Shivamogga Lok Sabha constituency, he added.
Hitting out at those spreading rumours that he would back off, the former DCM said, "I am seeing that false information is being spread out of fear of defeat. I don't know why they are indulging in such activities. I have said in all the languages I know that I am not going to withdraw. My well-wishers have also said I should not give up." Eshwarappa rebelled against the party after BJP denied his son K E Kantesh a ticket from Haveri Lok Sabha seat.
He held former Chief Minister and BJP strongman B S Yediyurappa and his two sons B Y Raghavendra and B Y Vijayendra responsible for his son not being given a chance to contest.
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