Lok Sabha Elections 2024 highlights: INDIA bloc trying to undermine electoral process, alleges BJP

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Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE: Jharkhand CM Champai Soren tells ANI:

"...INDIA alliance is winning more than 295 seats...there is no truth in exit polls...In Jharkhand also our situation is good. We will win more than 10 seats in Jharkhand"

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE: Delhi BJP chief Virendraa Sachdeva tells ANI: " If you are calling exit polls, fake, then you are questioning the neutrality of all the media channels and their work...Arvind Kejriwal's statement is shameful...if he compares himself with Bhagat Singh or Chandra Shekhar Azad, then it is unfortunate..."

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE: Leaders from the INDIA opposition bloc urged the Election Commission on Sunday to ensure that on June 4, the postal ballots are counted and their results declared before the outcome of the EVMs is announced, and stressed that the poll panel should issue clear guidelines on the counting process and ensure that those are implemented. More details.

The Election Commission of India will hold a press conference in New Delhi tomorrow at 12.30pm.

The Axis My India exit poll has predicted 78-96 seats for TDP, 55-77 seats for YSRCP, 16-18 seats for JSP, 4-6 seats for BJP, and 0-2 seats for Congress.

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE: The Congress and other INDIA bloc constituents as well as certain civil society groups are trying to undermine the integrity of India's electoral process, the BJP has alleged, according to PTI.

The party has also urged the Election Commission to prevent any attempts of "violence and unrest" during counting of Lok Sabha poll votes on June 4.

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE Updates: Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah and Deputy CM DK Shivakumar are holding a meeting with Congress leaders and workers in Bengaluru ahead of polls results, reports ANI.

An exit poll by India Today-Axis My India predicts that the BJP is likely to gain political ground in Odisha.

Total seats: 147

BJP: 62-80

BJD: 62-80

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE Updates: The Congress leaders on Sunday exuded confidence that the party will do much better than what was projected in the exit polls in states such as Karnataka, Maharashtra, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, and asserted the INDIA bloc is going to form the next government. More details here.

Reacting to the exit poll results that predicted yet another BJP landslide win in the Lok Sabha polls, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi referred to late singer Sidhu Moosewala's '295' song, indicating the INDIA bloc will eventually achieve its target of 295 seats. Gandhi sought to discredit the exit polls, claiming "they were Modi media poll and fantasy poll". The BJP, jubilant after the exit poll results, dismissed Gandhi's optimism as "daydreaming". More here.

West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee has rejected the exit poll predictions about the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal and urged the party workers to stay strong and not be swayed by these deceptive tactics.

"As we witnessed in 2016, 2019 and 2021, exit poll predictions were completely wrong. Why? Because BJP pays hefty sums to the Godi Media to create a wind and manipulate the final outcome. Smt. @MamataOfficial strongly condemned #ExitPolls, urging our party workers to stay strong and not be swayed by these deceptive tactics," TMC wrote on X.

Most of the exit polls have predicted BJP getting more seats than the TMC in West Bengal.

On meeting with the Election Commission of India, Congress leader Salman Khurshid tells ANI: "We requested for very strict vigilance during the counting process and they gave us a satisfactory reply... We didn't question any rules but made sure they are adhered to and followed faithfully. The meeting has been very promising."

An INDIA bloc delegation met the Election Commission today. After the meeting, Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi said: “...The vital importance of counting postal ballots first, of declaring the results of postal ballots first. This is very clearly stated in the statutory rule...This has been understood by the Election Commission over the years...Our complaint is that this statutory rule of this 2019 guideline has been given goodbye. The Election Commission has repealed this 2019 practice.”

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE Updates: Delhi CM and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal has surrendered at Tihar jail as interim bail granted to him by the Supreme Court expires today. Follow LIVE coverage.

“We will wait for June 4 to know whom people have voted for. Whatever their decision will be, we will accept it,” says former Haryana CM and Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda, according to PTI.

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE Updates: INDIA bloc leaders, including CPI General Secretary D Raja, Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav and Congress leader Salman Khurshid, have reached the Election Commission of India's office in Delhi.

Earlier, PTI, while citing sources, reported that Opposition leaders want to discuss counting norms with the ECI, and also ask them to ensure that the laid down procedures are followed.

Ahead of his surrender at Tihar Jail, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal claims that the BJP is winning the Lok Sabha polls and added that all exit polls are mind games, reports PTI.

“All exit polls are fake. What was the reason for BJP releasing these fake figures?” Kejriwal says.

The ruling BJD has asserted that the party would form the government in Odisha with a two-thirds majority by winning at least 110 of the 147 assembly constituencies in the state.

Rejecting exit polls that predicted that the BJP would win 15 Lok Sabha seats in Odisha, the BJD said that exit polls for the state have proved to be wrong in 2014 and 2019 elections and the trend would continue this time as well, reports PTI.

The Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) on Sunday returned to power by sweeping the assembly polls in the Himalayan state, winning 31 of the 32 seats. The opposition Sikkim Democratic Front could manage only one seat.

The BJP has returned to power in Arunachal Pradesh for the third time in a row, as the party won 46 seats in the 60-member assembly and secured a majority.

Here's how the tally looks like:

BJP: 46

NPEP: 5

INC: 1

Others: 8

"The exit polls are done by people who are close to PM Modi, and we do not believe in it. No matter how many tricks BJP plays, PM Modi is going to lose,” says West Bengal Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, according to PTI.

On exit polls, Punjab Congress President Amarinder Singh Raja Warring tells ANI: "I am not bothered about what the BJP and the exit polls say... I don't think the BJP is winning any seats in Punjab... Congress will emerge as the biggest party with the biggest numbers..."

Congress leader and MP Rahul Gandhi wrote to the President of India, Droupadi Murmu, requesting intervention to repeal the Agnipath scheme, a day before the last phase of the Lok Sabha polls. A copy of the letter shared on the Congress’s social media handle on X cites the landmine blast in J&K’s Rajouri district in which Agniveer Ajay Singh was killed in January this year. More details.

"There is no bar on daydreaming in India. The exit poll only reflects the exact poll. We will cross 400 in Delhi (Centre) and 40 in Bihar," BJP MP and candidate from Patna Sahib constituency, Ravi Shankar Prasad, tells ANI.