Lok Sabha Election 2024 Highlights: INDIA bloc rally in Jharkhand on Sunday

People of Hyderabad had seen BJP's intentions. They will not acept BJP-RSS's vulgar and provocative actions. Is this the 'Viksit Bharat' BJP is talking about? Bigger than elections is the peace of Hyderabad. I am confident that the people of Telangana will vote against BJP who are against peace in the state: Asaduddin Owaisi

A special polling station for internally displaced people set up near a relief camp in strife-torn Manipur's Imphal East.

Khumanthem Diana Devi, DC, Imphal East, visited the station and took stock of the situation today.

It's saddening and we are hurt by this. We may have political fights, but personally, we believe that their parents are our parents. But just to win the election, in Tejashwi Yadav's rally, for a candidate who herself is a woman, my mother-in-law was being abused and derogatory language was used for her and they silently listened to that, I think their silent agreement is involved in that: Arun Bharti on viral video of crowd in Tejashwi Yadav's rally ‘abusing’ LJP chief Chirag Paswan's mother

Tejashwi Yadav has been deputy CM for two times and trying to put his stamp on the jobs provided by CM Nitish Kumar. It's impossible to have talked about the development and such things in his party (RJD). They (RJD) aren't going to get into power: Giriraj Singh, BJP

Police in Assam's Jorhat conduct checking of vehicles ahead of voting in 5 parliamentary seats on Friday.

The remaining 11 seats will vote in two additional phases.

BJP national president JP Nadda attends a public meeting and plays Assamese Dhol along with the other party leaders.

I took part in the roadshow and nomination filing of our candidate from Sagar Lok Sabha constituency, Lata Wankhede today. The public's response suggests Sagar and the whole country is 'Modimay': Mohan Yadav

People have made up their minds to give all the 40 seats in Bihar to NDA: Lalan Singh, JD(U) MP

Telangana CM and Congress leader Revanth Reddy holds a roadshow for Adoor Prakash, the party's candidate from Attingal in Kerala.

In view of the first phase of voting for the Lok Sabha elections tomorrow on all five seats, the Uttarakhand government declares a public holiday across government and non-government offices/educational institutions on 19 April: Govt statement

On April 21, the INDIA alliance will organise its Maha rally in Ranchi, Jharkhand. All the big leaders will attend the event. AAP leaders Bhagwant Mann, Sunita Kejriwal, and Sanjay Singh will attend the event on behalf of the AAP: Saurabh Bharadwaj, Delhi minister and AAP leader

I urge all the people of Uttarakhand to cast their votes. Tomorrow all 5 seats of the state will go to polls. I am meeting everyone and appealing to them to vote: Pushkar Singh Dhami

Once (former PM) Rajiv Gandhi said that there is so much corruption in India, that if I (Rajiv Gandhi) send 100 paise from Centre, only 14 paise reaches the ground, and 86 paise goes to corruption. He (Rajiv) expressed his helplessness but couldn't provid any remedy to it, in independent India, PM Modi is the only Prime Minister who has accepted this challenge. He (PM Modi) has established a trinity of Jan Dhan, Aadhar, and mobile; today if 100 paise are sent from Delhi's bank, these reach your pocket and not a single penny goes into corruption: Rajnath Singh, Defence Minister, in Kerala's Kollam

Isn't it sad that there is rioting only in West Bengal and nowhere else in the country when processions of Ram Navami are going on. (Bengal CM) Mamata Banerjee has been cautioned in the past that take cognisance of any communal tension when it comes to Ram Navami, but she chose to ignore that and talk about riot, riot and riot. Here you have substantive evidence to show how the state government has not only not taken cognizance of the situation, they have dismissed the fact that there was any communal tension: Shaina NC, BJP spokesperson

This time, after the elections, the Congress party will dissolve. There will be no Congress in the nation: R Ashoka, BJP 

Sunetra Pawar, wife of Maharashtra deputy CM Ajit Pawar, files nomination from Baramati constituency as the NCP's candidate. Sunetra Pawar will face sitting Baramati MP Supriya Sule, Ajit's cousin.

BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla said, “We have seen a very important operation in Chhattisgarh in which 29 Naxals were eliminated by security personnel. It was indeed a big achievement for the security forces.” He further added, “Instead of welcoming the action by the security forces, the Congress has done what is expected of them. However, it is unthinkable that it claimed that the Naxals were essentially martyrs. It put a question mark on the bravery of our security forces.”

Rahul Gandhi, while addressing a polling rally in Kerala, said, “BJP is creating disharmony in country and it is harming millions of people.”

Senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh on Thursday took a dig at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, alleging that after his defeat from Amethi Lok Sabha seat in 2019, he does not have the courage to stand from there this time.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi told the party workers, “You are the backbone of our party. I thought that since it is election time, I should talk to you directly. This is not an ordinary election, this is an election to save the Constitution and democracy in which 'Babbar Sher' (lion-hearted) workers like you have a huge responsibility.”

Actress-turned-politician Hema Malini, contesting the Lok Sabha election from Mathura as a BJP candidate for the third time, said Wednesday that she considers herself as a "gopi" of Lord Krishna. "I joined politics neither for name nor for fame. I also did not join politics for any materialistic gain," the Mathura MP told PTI.

The Election Commission has arranged emergency helicopters in Uttarakhand to ensure casualty-free elections in the state, in case someone needs to be flown out at an urgency.

Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh on Wednesday asked the masses to vote for the BJP in the Lok Sabha elections to keep the state's "territorial integrity intact". Read more