Lok Sabha elections 2024 Highlights: Case against Maharashtra Youth Congress for Amit Shah video

Lok Sabha elections 2024 Live: "I believe there are a lot of opportunities to work. We will solve all the issues under the leadership of PM Modi. Congress is a depressed party. The Congress does not know anything other than appeasement and divisive politics,' according to Piyush Goyal, candidate from Mumbai North seat.

Lok Sabha elections 2024 Live: “The patriots in Congress asked for proof of surgical strike. The country was fighting and they were asking for proof. (Telangana CM) Revanth Reddy's party doesn't stand by the nation,” JP Nadda says.

Lok Sabha elections 2024 Live: Case registered against the social media handle of Maharashtra Congress (Youth) for sharing a ‘deepfake’ video of Union Home Minister Amit Shah. BJP leader Pratik Karpe filed a complaint with the Mumbai Police.

Lok Sabha elections 2024 Live: “It is a lie in itself if someone claims they will win all the 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh. The people of the state and the nation have been lied to for the last 10 years. But now, they have made up their minds to scrap this government which is using the politics of oppression and pressure,” says Samajwadi Party's Dimple Yadav.

Lok Sabha elections 2024 Live: “BJP has sought one more week to respond to Election Commission’s notice to party president JP Nadda about Model Code violations by PM Modi. Similarly,the Congress had asked for time until 5 pm today but have now asked for 14 more days to respond to the notice to Mallikarjun Kharge. The deadline to respond to the notices was 11 am on April 29,” according to an ECI official.

Lok Sabha elections 2024 Live: “How can we forget those times when there used to be terrorist attacks and bomb blasts everyday. 10 years ago, there used to be bomb blasts in Kashi, Ayodhya, but does that happen anymore? This is Modi, will enter the house (of terrorists) and kill them,” PM Modi says in Pune.

Lok Sabha elections 2024 Live: “That day is not far away when you will be traveling in a bullet train. During (ex-PM) Manmohan Singh's remote govt, the amount they spent on infrastructure, we spent that much amount on infrastructure in one year,” PM Modi declares.

Lok Sabha elections 2024 Live: Ex-PM HD Deve Gowda's Janata Dal (Secular) to hold a core committee meeting on Tuesday, after party leaders demand suspension of MP Prajwal Revanna, Deve Gowda's grandson who is embroiled in a “sex scandal” row and has fled to Germany.

Lok Sabha elections 2024 Live: “They used to say '400 paar' earlier. Do you hear it now? We will not let them cross even 100,” Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, nominee from Punjab's Gurdaspur, challenges BJP.

Lok Sabha elections 2024 Live: Union home minister and BJP leader Amit Shah holds a roadshow in Guwahati, Assam.

Lok Sabha elections 2024 Live: Revanth Reddy says, “So far, ED, CBI and Income Tax were used by PM Modi and Amit Shah to win elections but today I got to know that Delhi Police has reached the office of Telangana Congress party. Someone posted something on social media and they have come to arrest the Telangana Congress president and Telangana CM. This means Narendra Modi is using Delhi Police to win elections now.”

Lok Sabha elections 2024 Live: Speaking at the Kalaburagi rally, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra says, “Your MP never visits you or stays here. They (Modi govt) did nothing for you in the last 5 years. On the other hand, you have your struggles. Women take the burden of the entire society but this govt doesn't listen to you.”

Lok Sabha elections 2024 Live: “The BJP is saying that we (Congress) will take away your wealth and give it away to the Muslims. This didn't even happen during the time of Nizams. We are a democracy now and the Congress party will not let such a time come. The Congress will not take away anybody's Mangalsutra,” Mallikarjun Kharge says at a rally in Kalaburagi, Karnataka

Lok Sabha elections 2024 Live: “Those people who can't take on NDA and BJP face-to-face, they're now spreading fake videos on social media, using the voices of our party leaders, with Artificial Intelligence. A conspiracy is being hatched to create tension in the society. Their intentions won't come true if elections happen peacefully and therefore in the coming days, they're trying to do something big in the country,” says PM Modi at Satara rally.

Lok Sabha elections 2024 Live: “Satara's army families are happy looking at the Indian Army, which is becoming self-reliant. Today, our security forces have made-in-India weapons. Modi closed the shops of some people by doing this and will they be happy?,” says PM Modi at rally in Maharashtra's Satara

Lok Sabha elections 2024 Live: Ex-IPS officer Debasish Dhar, BJP's candidate from West Bengal's Birbhum Lok Sabha seat, moves Supreme Court with his plea against the cancellation of his nomination papers.

Lok Sabha elections 2024 Live: “From March 1 to April 28, a concerted effort by various enforcement agencies, led to the confiscation of items valued at a total of ₹32,977.30 lakh. This seizure included ₹3,211.02 lakh in cash, liquor worth ₹4,583.70 lakh, and significant quantities of drugs worth ₹21,850.88 lakh, alongside valuable metals worth ₹2,175.30 lakh and other miscellaneous items totalling ₹1,156.39 lakh,” says Navdeep Rinwa, Uttar Pradesh Chief Electoral Officer (CEO)

Lok Sabha elections 2024 Live: Education minister Dharmendra Pradhan, contesting from Sambalpur in his home state, holds a roadshow in Angul.

Lok Sabha elections 2024 Live: “The Pradesh Congress Committee's (PCC) dignity needs to be maintained. Before officially declaring candidates, at least informally PCC must have been informed, but they didn't do it. I can't work like that as PCC president but I am ready to work as Congress worker if they allow me to. If they don't want me then it is a different case,” says Arvinder Singh Lovely, day after stepping down.

Lok Sabha elections 2024 Live: Revanth Reddy asked to appear on May 1 in connection with the Amit Shah doctored video case. Reddy asked to bring his electronic devices for the investigation.

Lok Sabha elections 2024 Live: “I know what kind of conspiracy is going on. I am not someone who will get scared and run away. They have released something that is four-five years old. Expelling him (Prajwal Revanna) from the party is left to the party high command,” says HD Revanna

Lok Sabha elections 2024 Live: “Congress and INDI alliance are spreading false news that we (BJP) will change the Constitution and finish Reservation. The question of Modi ending Reservation does not even arise. If the intentions of our government were flawed, look at our record of 5 years, from 2019 to 2024,” PM Modi says at Solapur rally.

Lok Sabha elections 2024 Live: “The petitioner pre-supposes that there has been a violation of the Model Code of Conduct. This is completely unjustified. The plea being devoid of merit is dismissed,” says Justice Sachin Datta on petition seeking PM Modi's disqualification as election candidate for six years for allegedly seeking votes in God's name.

Lok Sabha elections 2024 Live: “The whole of Madhya Pradesh is 'Modi-may'. Currently, there is a huge storm of BJP all over India. The Congress and Samajwadi Party have surrendered in Madhya Pradesh. If they do not want to contest because they are weak, then that is because of the popularity of PM Modi,” says chief minister Mohan Yadav

Lok Sabha elections 2024 Live: At poll rally in Maharashtra's Solapur, PM Modi again claims that the opposition INDIA bloc, if elected to office, will work with “one year, one PM” formula during its five-year term.