Lok Sabha Elections Highlights: Sanjay Nirupam returns to Shiv Sena

Lok Sabha Election Live: “Congress and AAP are forming an alliance for contesting the 7 seats of Delhi. Both parties have given the responsibility to 7 of their senior leaders each. We have formed a strategy for the next few days,” says AAP MLA Durgesh Pathak.

Lok Sabha Election Live: “PM Narendra Modi abolished Article 370, which the INDI alliance kept pampering like its child for 70 years. There was a time when Murli Manohar Joshi and Narendra Modi had to take the Indian Army's protection for hoisting the National Flag at the Lal Chowk, but now, our National Flag is waving proudly,” Union Home Minister Amit Shah at a rally in Goa's Mapusa.

Lok Sabha Election Live: “We have clearly written in our manifesto - when our government comes to power, we will have a caste census, an economic survey and a survey of all organisations. We will find out how many people in press-media, corporate world, private hospitals, colleges and universities are from backward classes, SC and ST. This will bring out the truth. Public will get to know of their participation,” says Rahul Gandhi.

Lok Sabha Election Live: “He (PM Modi) indulges in petty talks and attacks by abandoning his dignity…there is no point in replying to him. Who is scared? Didn't (LK) Advani file nomination from two seats? Didn't (Atal Bihari) Vajpayee do it? He (Modi) himself did it,” says Mallikarjun Kharge.

Lok Sabha Election Live: Prime Minister Narendra Modi conducts a roadshow in Ranchi in support of Sanjay Seth, the BJP candidate from the Lok Sabha constituency.

Lok Sabha Election Live: “Filing nomination from Raebareli was an emotional moment for me! Amethi and Rae Bareli are not different for me, both are my family and I am happy that Kishori Lal ji, who has been serving the area for 40 years, will represent the party from Amethi,” Rahul Gandhi on X.

Lok Sabha Election Live: Sanjay Nirupam, who resigned from the Congress last month, joins Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena. Nirupam's wife and daughter also join.

Lok Sabha Election Live: Delhi Police arrest Arun Reddy, who handles the 'Spirit of Congress' X account, in the Union Home Minister Amit Shah doctored video case

Lok Sabha Election Live: “I want to ask the chief of 'fake' Shiv Sena, Uddhav Thackeray, you should make it clear in front of the people of Maharashtra, should CAA be implemented or not? should PFI be banned or not? Construction of Ram temple was good thing or bad thing? Removal of triple talaq was a good thing or not?” Union home minister Amit Shah asks.

Lok Sabha Election Live: “Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann is correct. 0 will be theirs (AAP), 13 will be Congress party's score,” says Charanjit Singh Channi.

Lok Sabha Election Live: “Rae Bareli has stood with us like a rock in every ups and downs, happiness and sorrow, crisis and struggle for decades. This is a relationship of affection and trust. It is also a relationship of service and faith which has remained unbroken for half a century. The love, affection and respect we have received from the people here is priceless,” Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on X (formerly Twitter)

Lok Sabha Election Live: “Only the BJP understands the sentiments of the people here and caters to them. We are always aware of what you have in mind, what the people want. A separate Jharkhand - Atal Bihari Vajpayee formed that, BJP did it. What did the Congress do? Oppose Jharkhand vehemently. A few leaders of Bihar used to say that Jharkhand would be formed over their dead bodies. These days, they are in INDI Alliance,” says PM Modi.

Lok Sabha Election Live: “Our democracy allows a person contest on more than one seat. He (Rahul Gandhi) is using that democratic right. But this is unjust to the voters of Wayanad because he never intimated to the voters of Wayanad that he intends to contest another seat. It is about political morality,” CPI's Wayanad candidate Annie Raja on Rahul Gandhi also contesting from Rae Bareli.

Lok Sabha Election Live: “Rahul Gandhi has left the battleground and ran away to Wayanad. When his party wanted him to contest elections again from Amethi, he chose Rae Bareli. We all know, what to call a person who left a battle midway,” says Defence Minister Rajnath Singh

Lok Sabha Election Live: “The BJP will not win 400 seats. That is why they are not raising slogans of '400 paar' anymore. This time, the PDA (Picchda, Dalit and Alpasankhyak) will defeat the NDA. They want to change the Constitution. The 'double engine' is not visible in the hoardings,” says SP chief Akhilesh Yadav

Election 2024 Live: In a sharp critique directed at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and the INDIA bloc, UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath asserted on Friday that it is now unmistakably clear that "Congress ka haath, desh ke dushmano ke saath" (the hand of Congress is with the nation's enemies). According to an official release, the chief minister made this observation in response to reports of Pakistan's former minister Chaudhry Fawad Hussain's praise for Rahul Gandhi and his sharing of a video featuring the Congress leader on social media.

Election 2024 Live: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma attacked Congress, "Rahul Gandhi is very popular in Pakistan. If there is an election in Pakistan and Rahul Gandhi contests it, then he will win a huge margin of votes... We cannot defeat Rahul Gandhi in Pakistan... Rahul Gandhi would definitely win in Pakistan... How can that happen in India what Pakistan wants? Whatever Pakistan wants, the opposite will happen in India..."

Election 2024 Live: On PM Narendra Modi's 'Daro Mat Bhago Mat' jibe on Rahul Gandhi filing his nomination from Raebareli, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge says, "He himself has run away to Varanasi, ask him."

Election 2024 Live: BJP MP Jamyang Tsering Namgyal relents, reconciles with party. Not contesting as independent from Ladakh Lok Sabha constituency. Extend support to party candidate and CEC of LAHDC Leh Tashi Gyalson

Election 2024 Live: My heart bleeds for the woman molested at Raj Bhavan, it's a shame: Mamata Banerjee at a rally.

Election 2024 Live: Congress candidate for Gurugram Lok Sabha Raj Babbar submited his nomination papers in presence of former CM Bhupinder Hooda.

Election 2024 Live: Addressing a rally in Chikkodi Lok Sabha Constituency, Karnataka, Union Home Minister Amit Shah says, "... Sonia Gandhi has launched 'Rahul Baba' 20 times, but the launch hasn't been successful. Today, he has run away from Amethi to file a nomination from Raebareli. I want to tell you (Rahul Gandhi) the result from here, 'Rahul Baba' will lose to the BJP candidate, Dinesh Pratap Singh with a huge margin in Raebareli."

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Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live | Rahul Gandhi didn't come to Amethi in five years. He would have this feeling that if he goes to Amethi, people will ask questions and hence he opted for Rae Bareli where he would try to divert people. But people understand all these things: Bhupendra Chaudhary

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: Sonia Gandhi abd Priyanka Gandhi Vadra have betrayed the people of Rae Bareli. The people chose Sonia Gandhi as an MP but she gave the power to Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and she later gave it to Kishori Lal Sharma. In the last 10 years, neither Priyanka Gandhi Vadra nor Sonia Gandhi met the people of Raebareli: Dinesh Pratap Singh

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi files nomination from Uttar Pradesh's Rae Bareli