Lok Sabha Election 2024 news highlights: Amit Shah terms Mallikarjun Kharge's remark on J&K 'shameful'

Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday hit out at Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge over his remark on Jammu and Kashmir at a rally in Jaipur.

“It is shameful to hear that the Congress party is asking, “Kashmir se kya waasta hai (What is the relation with Kashmir)?” I would like to remind the Congress party that J&K is an integral part of India, and every state and citizen has the right over J&K, just as the people of J&K have the right over the rest of India,” Shah said in a post on social platform X. Dig Deeper

Lok Sabha Election 2024 LIVE updates: Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has claimed that the party's workers are reaching out to eight crore families amid the ongoing campaign for the Lok Sabha election 2024.

"Congress Party is going to eight crore houses with guarantee cards- farmer's justice, women's justice, youth justice, labour justice. Our workers and leaders are reaching out to eight crore families...These are the real issues facing the country, women, farmers, youth, workers, deprived people, backward class people, Scheduled Castes, and Scheduled Caste, these are the issues that matter, in 2024...It is sad to say that the Defence Minister has also fallen into this trap. Till now this kind of language was limited to the Prime Minister and Home Minister. But, now the Defence Minister is also using the same language. During elections they want to divert attention from the real issues all this is diversionary tactics...," said Ramesh as quoted by news agency ANI.

Lok Sabha Election 2024 LIVE updates: The Andhra Pradesh IPS officers' association submitted a representation to the Chief Election Commissioner on Saturday alleging that leaders from the state NDA were engaging in a systematic misinformation campaign to discredit their integrity, PTI reported.

The body noted that members of the TDP, BJP, and Janasena were levelling unfounded accusations against IPS officers as part of a deliberate smear effort. They specifically mentioned TDP leader V Ramaiah, state BJP chief D Purandeswari, and others, as well as certain media outlets and referenced specific news articles.

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Lok Sabha Election 2024 LIVE updates: Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has responded to PM Modi's "Congress manifesto completely bears the imprint of Muslim League ideology."

 "The Prime Minister never talks about the public; he wants to divert attention from what the public issues, farmers' issues, youth issues, women's issues, and workers' issues are, which is the reality of the 10 years of injustice. They gave a clean chit to China and because of that clean chit, we have become weak today. The Prime Minister says that Congress adopted the policy of the Muslim League, let me remind the Prime Minister, in 1940, 1941 and 42, which person, which party, was in the coalition government with the Muslim League, in Bengal. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, who was the founder of the Jana Sangh, was the President of the Hindu Mahasabha and he formed a coalition government with the Muslim League. In Bengal, in Sindh and the Northwest Frontier Province, there was an alliance between the Hindu Mahasabha and the Muslim League,"said Ramesh as quoted by news agency ANI.

Lok Sabha Election 2024 LIVE updates: BJP national spokesperson Ajay Alok on Saturday expressed confidence in the party's ability to secure victory in all 14 Lok Sabha seats in Jharkhand. He further asserted that the BJP would emerge victorious in the upcoming state assembly elections and take charge of the government.

Alok pledged to lead the state forward under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's guidance. Additionally, he criticised imprisoned former chief minister Hemant Soren and labelled the JMM as the 'Jamin Maro Morcha', accusing it of engaging in land grabbing during its tenure.

Lok Sabha Election 2024 LIVE updates: Actor and Makkal Needhi Maiam chief Kamal Hassan has claimed that he would have got the South Chennai seat if he had asked for it from DMK.

 "People cannot always say that the Gujarat model is great, we have come to this model, which is also great (Dravidian model)... Moving my chariot alone is not enough so we have to move the chariot together (on joining hands with the DMK alliance). They are giving 1,000 crores to one person, but here in Tamil Nadu for crores of people, we are giving 1,000 rupees... If I had asked for this South Chennai seat from them (DMK) I would have got it but I didn't come here for the seat. I have come here to seek votes for our sister," says actor and Makkal Needhi Maiam chief Kamal Hassan.

Lok Sabha Election 2024 LIVE updates: Thousands of BJP supporters have lined up across the streets as PM Modi holds roadshow in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. The people can be seen holding BJP's flags and are shouting slogans in support of the Prime Minister.

Lok Sabha Election 2024 LIVE updates: PM Modi is holding a roadshow in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. CM Yogi Adityanath is also present with him.

Lok Sabha Election 2024 LIVE updates: PM Modi is holding a roadshow in Ghaziabad on Saturday.

Lok Sabha Election 2024 LIVE updates: Taking a dig over Congress' manifesto, Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman cited the promises made by the party in Karnataka.

 "On Congress manifesto, I will take the example of Karnataka only. To win here (during the Assembly elections) they gave a huge manifesto (promises), those manifestos made them win but to fulfil those promises you need a budget and DY Shivakumar himself said they don't have funds for the development after which there was a huge financial burden... If in one state there is such a huge burden because of them (Congress government), then should the people of the country trust their promises (the current manifesto released by the Congress party)?...," said Sitharaman as quoted by news agency ANI.

Lok Sabha election 2024 news live: Former Tamil Nadu CM O Panneerselvam engages in unique way to campaign for the upcoming Lok Sabha Election 2024.

Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday asked people to ensure that Prime Minister Narendra Modi steps down after the Lok Sabha polls and make Congress leader Rahul Gandhi the PM of the county. Claiming that Congress always walks the talk and fulfills the promises made to the people, unlike the BJP, he said the party will fulfill the guarantees announced in its manifesto after coming to power, like it did in Karnataka under his leadership. 

Lok sabha election 2024 news live: BSP Lok Sabha candidate from Balaghat in Madhya Pradesh Kankar Munjare on Saturday said he had left home, which he shares with his Congress MLA wife Anubha Munjare, since two persons following different ideologies must not stay under one roof during polls.

Lok sabha election 2024 news live: The Congress on Saturday announced Ajit Ramji Mahla as its candidate for the Dadra and Nagar Haveli Lok Sabha constituency, a seat reserved for Scheduled Tribes. In a video statement, Ajit Malha thanked the Congress’s district and national leadership for offering him a chance to serve the people of his constituency. Malha is pitted against the Bharatiya Janata Party's Kalaben Delkar, the sitting MP, who won the by-election in 2021 as a Shiv Sena candidate after the death of her husband and then MP Mohan Delkar.

Lok sabha election 2024 news live: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma was spotted dancing on stage during an election campaign at Titabor Bokahola Bagisa in Jorhat on Saturday. The campaign rally was in support of Topon Kumar Gogoi, the BJP candidate for the Jorhat parliamentary constituency. Sarma enthusiastically clapped and danced to a popular Jhumur song.

Addressing a public gathering in Ajmer, PM Modi said, "Your dreams are Modi's Sankalp. We have to make India viksit by 2047."

Narendra Modi in Rajasthan Live: "Rajasthan is moving ahead towards greater heights of development under the BJP rule. Wherever there is Congress, development can never happen. Congress never bothered about the poor, downtrodden, underprivileged, youth. For the Congress, it can be said 'ek to karela, dusra neem chadha',"says PM Modi

Narendra Modi in Rajasthan Live: Sometimes a decision by citizens sets course for next 100 years, this election is one such big opportunity, PM said in Ajmer.

"Lord Brahma is the creator and BJP is also committed to build a new India," says PM Modi

Narendra Modi in Rajasthan Live: PM Modi is holding a public rally in Rajasthan's Ajmer at present.

Lok Sabha Election 2024 LIVE: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, during a poll rally in Rajasthan's Jaipur today, said, “We have promised to fulfil 25 guarantees, if our govt comes to power. Unlike PM Modi, we do not keep lying...He has given several guarantees, but I want to ask you which guarantee has been completed so far? He gave the guarantee to provide 2 crore jobs every year. So, in the last 10 years, he had to provide 20 crore jobs. I want to ask if you have got 20 crore jobs or not?”

Sonia Gandhi in Jaipur LIVE Updates: "...'Modi ji khud ko mahaan maan kar, desh aur loktantra ki maryada ka cheer haran kar rahe hain'...Opposition leaders are threatened to join the BJP. Today, the democracy of our country is in danger...Conspiracies are being done to change our Constitution..." says Sonia Gandhi

Sonia Gandhi in Jaipur LIVE Updates: “There’s darkness of injustice everywhere. We all should fight against this seeking light of justice. For the last 10 years, our country has been under the leadership of such a government which promoted unemployment, inflation, discrimination, and atrocity. What the Modi government has done is in front of us all,” says Sonia Gandhi