Lok Sabha Election 2024 highlights: Apna Dal (K) launches joint front with AIMIM

Lok Sabha Election 2024 highlights: Various political parties have started poll campaigns to woo the voters.

Apna Dal (K) launches joint front with AIMIM

Lok Sabha Election 2024 highlights: The General Elections are set to be held in seven phases between April 19 and June 1. Various political parties have released the list of their candidates who are seeking to get elected via the world’s largest democratic exercise. Several candidates have also filed their nominations. Political campaigns have been started to woo the voters....Read More

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• 31 Mar 2024, 10:44:47 PM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: Recap | INDIA bloc gives call for unity to oust BJP at Ramlila Maidan show of strength

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: Top leaders of the INDIA bloc on Sunday exhorted the people to defeat the BJP to save democracy and the Constitution and alleged that the opposition has been deprived of a level playing field in the Lok Sabha elections due to the government's "dictatorial" actions.

  Coming together at the 'Loktantra Bachao' (Save Democracy) rally at Ramlila Maidan in the national capital, the first such show of strength by the opposition after the announcement of Lok Sabha polls, the leaders of 18 major parties slammed the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren and gave a fervent call to the alliance partners to unite in national interest.

• 31 Mar 2024, 10:03:49 PM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: BJP holds core group meeting in Mumbai ahead of LS polls

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: The Bharatiya Janata Party Maharashtra on Sunday held a core group meeting at the state headquarters in Mumbai.

  Deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and state BJP President Chandrashekhar Bawankhule were present at the meeting.

• 31 Mar 2024, 09:42:33 PM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: Uttarakhand CM Dhami campaigns for Tehri BJP candidate Mala Rajyalakshmi Shah at Lambgaon

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami campaigned for Mala Rajyalakshmi Shah, a BJP candidate from Tehri Lok Sabha constituency, at Lambgaon on Sunday.

  Addressing the public meeting at the Government Inter College Ground in Lambgaon, CM Dhami said, "Voting is to be held in the state for all five Lok Sabha seats on April 19. In the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, with the blessings of the people, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be made PM again for the third time, for which one has to vote enthusiastically in favour of the BJP candidate from this region, Mala Rajyalakshmi Shah."

• 31 Mar 2024, 09:24:16 PM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: BRS working president KT Rama Rao visits Secunderabad constituency as part of his 'padyatra'

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: BRS working president KT Rama Rao visited Secunderabad constituency as part of his 'padyatra' or foot march on Sunday.

• 31 Mar 2024, 09:05:52 PM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: 'Fielding Sunetra Pawar against me in Baramati is BJP's ploy to finish off Sharad Pawar', says Supriya Sule

  NCP (Sharad Chandra Pawar) leader Supriya Sule on Sunday said that the BJP's has conspired to field her sister-in-law Sunetra Pawar, against her in the Baramati Lok Sabha seat with an aim to finish the party chief Sharad Pawar.

  In an exclusive interaction with ANI in Pune, Sule said, "My fight is not against a person, but their mindset and policies. You have witnessed me in politics for the past 18 years; I have never made any personal comment on anyone."

• 31 Mar 2024, 08:41:10 PM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: Ensure Congress candidate's massive win in Puducherry: Udhayanidhi Stalin

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: Tamil Nadu Youth Welfare and Sports Minister and DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin on Sunday appealed to the Union Territory's electorate to ensure that the Congress candidate is re-elected in the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls with a massive vote difference. The Congress, DMK's alliance partner, has renominated sitting MP V Vaithilingam as their candidate for the 2024 polls. Addressing a large gathering during his road show in neighbouring Villianoor, Udhayanidhi said that the INDIA bloc's victory in the upcoming polls would pave the way for protection of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry's rights. Vaithilingam accompanied him during the rally.

• 31 Mar 2024, 08:19:53 PM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: Apna Dal (K) quits INDIA bloc, launches joint front with Owaisi's AIMIM

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: Apna Dal (Kamerawadi) on Sunday formally broke away from the opposition INDIA bloc and tied up with Asaduddin Owaisi's AIMIM to launch a joint front ahead of Lok Sabha polls.

• 31 Mar 2024, 07:58:14 PM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: We can defeat Modi only through our unity: Tamil Nadu CM Stalin at INDIA bloc rally

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK supremo M K Stalin on Sunday said it is only through unity that the opposition can defeat Prime Minister Narendra Modi and oust the "fascist" BJP to form a federal India.

  In his message at the INDIA bloc's rally here, he said the arrest of former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal shows the BJP's "growing desperation in the face of imminent defeat".

  His message was read out by DMK leader in Rajya Sabha Tiruchi Siva, who represented the party at the rally.

• 31 Mar 2024, 07:34:52 PM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: LJP to commence election campaigning tomorrow, says party chief Chirag Paswan

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: "... We will start with our election campaigning from tomorrow. When PM Narendra Modi is starting the election rallies in Bihar, his first rally will be held in Jamui... During his agitation with Anna Hazare in Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal always carried a list of corrupt people with him, and today all those people were standing hand in hand on one stage..." Chirag Paswan said.

• 31 Mar 2024, 07:22:00 PM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: Jai Ram Thakur meets Kangana, discusses strategy for upcoming polls

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: Former Himachal Pradesh chief minister Jai Ram Thakur on Sunday met BJP Lok Sabha candidate from Mandi Kangana Ranaut at her home in Bhambla to discuss the election strategy.

  Ranaut, a popular Hindi film actor, welcomed Thakur by presenting him with a cap at her Mandi house.

• 31 Mar 2024, 07:07:41 PM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: BJP does not want opposition parties to unite: Bhagwant Mann at INDIA bloc rally

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Sunday said the ruling BJP was trying to break up the country into several pieces and urged people to not be swayed by the party's "new jumlas" during the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.

  Addressing an INDIA bloc rally at the Ramlila Maidan here, Mann said the BJP does not want the opposition parties to unite. "These people do not want that we should sit together. Let's come together," Mann said.

  Mann said the country belongs to all its 140 crore people and is no one's "property".

• 31 Mar 2024, 06:54:44 PM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live | Why be scared of AAP leaders if you are going ‘400 paar': Akhilesh Yadav

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: Taking a dig at the BJP-led NDA at the Centre, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday questioned why it was 'scared' of the AAP and other Opposition forces if it was so confident of going '400 paar' (beyond 400 seats) in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

  Addressing the Opposition's Maha Rally at Delhi's Ramlila Maidan on Sunday, the former UP chief minister said, "These people (BJP and its NDA partners) are raising chants of '400 paar'. If they are so confident of winning that many seats, why be scared of the AAP and the other Opposition leaders? They are sending elected chief ministers to jail. Not just fellow countrymen but the whole world has condemned these arrests."

• 31 Mar 2024, 06:45:21 PM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live | ‘BJP eyes 400 paar, I challenge…’: Mamata Banerjee at Mahua Moitra's rally

  West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday mocked the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA's target of winning 400-plus seats in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Speaking at a campaign rally for Trinamool Congress candidate Mahua Moitra in the Krishnanagar area, Mamata Banerjee also dared the BJP to win at least 200 constituencies.

• 31 Mar 2024, 06:42:58 PM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live | Message of Lord Ram's life is power not permanent, arrogance gets shattered: Priyanka to PM

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: In a stinging attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Sunday said she would like to tell him that the message of Lord Ram's life is that power is not permanent and arrogance gets shattered.

  In her remarks before reading out the INDIA bloc's demands at a rally at the Ramlila Maidan here, Priyanka Gandhi said, "I have been coming to the Ramlila Maidan since childhood. Every year Ravan's effigy is burnt."

  "When I was a kid, I used to come (here) with my grandmother Indira Gandhi Ji. She used to narrate Ram's 'jeevan gaatha' to me. Those in power today call themselves Ram bhakts. When I was sitting here, I thought that I should say something to them in this context," the Congress general secretary said.

• 31 Mar 2024, 06:41:03 PM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Congress CEC meeting for the state of Bihar underway at the party headquarters in Delhi

  Congress CEC meeting for the state of Bihar is underway at the party headquarters in Delhi.

• 31 Mar 2024, 06:01:04 PM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: ‘Started preparations for third term, working on big decisions to be made in first 100 days’, says PM Modi

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: In the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted on Sunday that the preparations for the third term has already started.

  While addressing a mega rally at Uttar Pradesh's Meerut on Sunday, PM Modi said, "Our government has already started preparations for the third term. We are making a roadmap for the coming five years. Work is going on rapidly on what major decisions we have to take in the first 100 days."

  "In the last 10 years, you have seen only the trailer of development, now we have to take the country much further," he added.

• 31 Mar 2024, 05:46:49 PM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: Polls will be held through ballot papers in Rajgarh if 400 persons file nominations: Digvijaya

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: Congress leader Digvijaya Singh, who is contesting from Rajgarh Lok Sabha seat in Madhya Pradesh, on Sunday said he was making efforts to get 400 people to file nominations so that polls will be held through ballot paper. He said this after asking people during a corner meeting in Kachnariya village in Susner if they wanted elections to be held through EVMs or ballot papers.

• 31 Mar 2024, 05:39:04 PM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: Union minister Amit Shah holds a roadshow in Sikar, Rajasthan

• 31 Mar 2024, 05:27:09 PM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: Congress will win all 5 seats in first phase of LS polls in Maharashtra: Patole

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: The Maha Vikas Aghadi will win all the five constituencies going to polls in the first phase of Lok Sabha elections in Maharashtra next month, state unit president Nana Patole said on Sunday.

  Addressing a press conference here, Patole claimed the people are fed up with the "dictatorial" BJP government at the Centre which will be thrown out of power in elections.

• 31 Mar 2024, 05:14:40 PM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: Country has only seen trailer of development, making roadmap for next five years: PM Modi at Meerut rally

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: The 2024 Lok Sabha election is not just for making a government but to make a 'Viksit Bharat', Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday, asserting that people have only seen a "trailer" of development and his government was preparing the roadmap for next five years.

  Addressing his first rally in Uttar Pradesh after the announcement of the Lok Sabha election schedule, Modi lauded Meerut as a land of "revolution and revolutionaries" that gave leaders like Chaudhary Charan Singh to the nation.

  "Our government has already started preparations for the third term. We are making a roadmap for the coming five years. Work is going on rapidly on what major decisions we have to take in the first 100 days.

• 31 Mar 2024, 05:04:38 PM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: 'INDI alliance that hates farmers did not give due respect to Chaudhary Charan Singh,' says PM at poll rally

  “INDI alliance that hates farmers did not give due respect to Chaudhary Charan Singh,” said PM Modi attacking Oppn at Meerut rally.

• 31 Mar 2024, 04:55:43 PM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: PM cites Katchatheevu islands, launches attack on Congress

  On the Katchatheevu Island, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said "Today, another anti-national act of Congress has come before the country. Katchatheevu is an island in Tamil Nadu, off the coast of India, between Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu and this island is extremely important from the perspective of national security. When the country became independent, we had this island, and it was an integral part of India but 4-5 decades ago, Congress said that this Island was of no use and cut off a part of Maa Bharti and separated it from India..."

• 31 Mar 2024, 04:47:49 PM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: In Meerut, PM terms INDIA bloc as ‘anti-farmer'

  In his Meerut rally, PM termed INDIA bloc as ‘anti-farmer' . “Anti farmer INDI alliance didn't give honour to Chaudhary Charan Singh,” PM said.

• 31 Mar 2024, 04:37:56 PM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: PM takes dig at Oppn, raises ‘Bhrastachaar Hatao’ slogan at Meerut rally

  “We have started battle against corruption...no body could gobble up money...few people are upset because I am initiating action against corruption.. Modi mantra is Bhrastachaar Hatao,” says PM

• 31 Mar 2024, 04:32:01 PM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: PM Modi lauds ‘Lakhpati Didi’ scheme at poll rally

  PM Modi lauded ‘Lakhpati Didi’ scheme at Meerut poll rally.

• 31 Mar 2024, 04:25:15 PM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: ‘I have a special relationship with Meerut,' says PM at poll rally

  "I have a special relationship with Meerut. I had started my election campaign for the 2014 and 2019 (Lok Sabha) polls from Meerut only. And now, the first rally for the 2024 elections is also being organised in Meerut. The 2024 Lok Sabha elections is not an election to elect the government, but to make a 'Viksit Bharat'," says PM Modi at a public rally in UP's Meerut.

• 31 Mar 2024, 04:16:47 PM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: ‘World looking at India with trust and faith’, says PM

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: World is looking at India with trust and faith, PM Modi said speaking in Meerut.

• 31 Mar 2024, 04:00:40 PM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: 'Bharat Ratna to Charan Singh is a tribute to farmers,' says Yogi Adityanath

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath hails development work done under Modi government. He said that Modi government had paid a tribute to the farmers by bestowing Bharat Ratna on Chaudhary Charan Singh.

• 31 Mar 2024, 03:55:45 PM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: RLD chief thanks Modi government for Bharat Ratna to Chaudhary Charan Singh.

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: Rashtriya Lok Dal president Jayant Chaudhary thanked PM Modi government for awarding Bharat Ratna to Chaudhary Charan Singh.

• 31 Mar 2024, 03:46:33 PM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: PM Modi welcomed with huge garland

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: BJP leaders and workers welcomed PM Modi by offering him a huge garland at a public rally in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut on Sunday.

• 31 Mar 2024, 03:42:42 PM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: PM Modi holds public rally in Meerut

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: PM Modi has reached Uttar Pradesh's Meerut to address a public rally on Sunday. He met several BJP leaders on the stage.

• 31 Mar 2024, 03:03:31 PM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: 'BJP will win all 10 Lok Sabha seats of Haryana,' claims CM Nayab Singh Saini

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini has exuded confidence that the BJP will win in all 10 Lok Sabha seats of Haryana.

  "This government, which works for the people, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has worked to directly benefit the people, which is evident from the enthusiasm and energy seen among the people. In the upcoming elections, we will win in all the 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana and it will play a crucial role in PM Modi becoming Prime Minister for the third time," said Saini

• 31 Mar 2024, 02:51:31 PM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: BJD candidate from Odisha's Jagatsinghpur constituency thanks CM Patnaik for giving her ticket to contest from the seat

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: "I would like to thank CM Naveen Patnaik for blessing me and showing faith in me by giving ticket to contest the election... I have met the CM and he has blessed me and asked me to reach more and more people. People have faith in me and they'll definitely vote for me to win," Rajashree Mallick said.

• 31 Mar 2024, 02:28:20 PM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates | ‘Thankful to PM Modi, other BJP leaders for trusting me…’: Rabindra Narayan on his candidature from Jajpur for LS Polls

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: BJP leader Rabindra Narayan Behera expressed gratitude towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi for entrusting him as a candidate for a parliamentary seat in Jajpur.

  "I am thankful to PM Modi for trusting me by giving me the Jajpur parliamentary constituency seat. I am also thankful to Amit Shah ji and other ministers and leaders," Rabindra Narayan Behera told ANI on his candidature.

  He emphasised Jajpur's status as the epicentre of corruption in Odisha and pledged to champion the cause of the people in the region.

• 31 Mar 2024, 01:59:54 PM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: Mamata Banerjee dares BJP to win more than 200 seats in polls

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has challenged the BJP to win more than 200 Lok Sabha seats in the upcoming elections. Her remarks come amid BJP targeting to win more than 400 seats.

  "The BJP is saying "400 paar", I challenge them to cross the 200 seats benchmark first. In 2021 assembly polls, they gave a call of 200 plus seats but had to stop at 77," said Mamata on Sunday, reported news agency PTI.

  She also reiterated that she wouldn't allow the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act in the state.

  "The CAA is a trap to turn legal citizens into foreigners. We would allow neither CAA nor NRC in West Bengal," she said.

• 31 Mar 2024, 01:06:56 PM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: CCTV surveillance in liquor outlets, distilleries during polls in Telangana

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: For the first time in Telangana, all 24 liquor production points have been brought under CCTV surveillance to keep a check on the illegal flow of alcohol in the run-up to the May 13 Lok Sabha elections, reported news agency PTI.

  Chief Electoral Officer Vikas Raj said to prevent unwarranted liquor distribution during the elections, the state Excise Department is monitoring the sale of alcohol and will inform the Election Commission if there is a spike of more than 20 per cent in its production. The official said all the belt shops (unauthorised satellite shops) of liquor were shut down and the illegal network of distribution was stopped to a large extent.

• 31 Mar 2024, 12:21:38 PM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: Uddhav Thackeray slams BJP over electoral bond issue, calls it 'Bhrasht Janata Party'

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray has slammed the BJP over the electoral bonds issue, calling it the 'Bhrasht Janata Party'

  "It has emerged that the BJP is the most corrupt party. It is the 'Bhrasht Janata Party'. Their real face has been exposed before the people," said Thackeray as quoted by news agency PTI.

• 31 Mar 2024, 11:59:42 AM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: Congress to release manifesto on April 5

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: The Congress Party will release its manifesto on April 5, for the Lok Sabha election 2024, reported news agency PTI.

• 31 Mar 2024, 11:42:42 AM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: ‘Maafi maango’ rally, says Congress leader Surendra Rajput on PM Modi's public rally in Meerut

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: Congress leader Surendra Rajput has slammed PM Modi’s rally in UP’s Meerut set to be held today.

  “PM Modi should talk about the promises he made to farmers in Meerut earlier. He promised employment. He promised solutions to sugarcane-related issues of farmers. But nothing of this happened, so this rally should be a ‘maafi maango’ rally,” said Rajput.

• 31 Mar 2024, 11:33:35 AM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: How the Congress party is preparing for the polls

  Every week zoom calls connect the Congress war room in Lutyens’ Delhi bungalow to the state war rooms to prepare candidates for the campaign and polling day, functionaries said. The Congress has fielded a large number of new candidates in this general election as it seeks to avoid another embarrassing defeat at the hands of the Bharatiya Janata Party. For the first phase of polling on April 19, the party has fielded 39 new candidates and has repeated only 16 contestants. Dig Deeper

• 31 Mar 2024, 11:19:53 AM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav takes a dig at BJP

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday claimed that the BJP is going out of power after the upcoming Lok Sabha Election 2024.

  "BJP is worried that it is going (out of power). While we (opposition leaders) are coming to Delhi today, the PM is going out of Delhi. This shows that who is going out (of power)," said Yadav as quoted by news agency PTI.

• 31 Mar 2024, 11:08:32 AM IST

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• 31 Mar 2024, 10:54:28 AM IST

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: PM Modi to address public rally in Meerut today

  Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Updates: PM Modi will address a poll rally in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut on Sunday. As per reports, BJP candidate Arun Govil of TV serial 'Ramayan' fame and Rashtriya Lok Dal president Jayant Chaudhary, who recently joined the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance, are expected to be present with the PM.