Lok Sabha Elections 2024 highlights: 'INDIA bloc leaders worried about attaining opposition status,' says PM Modi

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE Updates: While addressing a public meeting in Jharkhand's Chatra, PM Narendra Modi took a jibe at the Congress party and its leader Rahul Gandhi. PM Modi said, "Congress will get fewer seats than the age of its 'shehzada'".

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE Updates: While addressing a public meeting in Jharkhand's Chatra, PM Narendra Modi said "INDIA bloc leaders are planning to merge small parties post LS polls to attain opposition status".

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE Updates: PM Modi is holding a public meeting in Jharkhand's Chatra

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE Updates: During a public rally in Hyderabad, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi slammed the BJP and claimed that the Two nation theory was spoken by its people.

" Who said that Muslims and Hindus are two different nations? Did we say that? No...BJP says that voting for AIMIM is equal to voting for Pakistan. Aren't you (BJP) ashamed? Two nation theory was spoken by you people, your hero said Hindus and Muslims are two different nations, your hero wrote it in his book. We are in India...we were born in this land and will die in this land. Listen BJP, RSS, Narendra Modi and Amit Shah, there won't be another exodus...," said Asaduddin Owaisi.

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE Updates: During his roadshow in UP's Kannauj, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said,"These elections, in which we are going to participate, are not ordinary elections. These elections will decide our and upcoming generations' future. This is our responsibility to remove those who want to change the Constitution."

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE Updates: Addressing a public gathering in Jharkhand's Palamu, JMM leader Kalpana Soren accused Central government of showing step-motherly attitude towards Jharkhand.

"The (BJP-led) central government is like a father to us, but they are showing a step-motherly attitude towards us. They are doing this because they don't have their government in Jharkhand," said Kalpana Soren as quoted by news agency PTI.

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Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE Updates: While addressing a public meeting in Tandur, Telangana, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi said, "Here (Telangana), a cylinder costs ₹500, while in other states like UP, it costs ₹1,200. In 10 years, the central government led by PM Modi has only worked to provide benefits to capitalists."

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE Updates: BJP national president JP Nadda has said that AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal and INDIA bloc's aim is to mislead and confuse the country. He tweeted "Kejriwal and the entire INDI alliance have panicked after realizing their failure in the elections. Their aim is to mislead and confuse the country. Modi Ji is getting the immense blessings of the people from East to West, North to South. They have neither any policy nor any program in front of the Prime Minister. Now they are looking for a way out by making an excuse of Modi Ji's age. There is no such provision regarding age anywhere in the constitution of the BJP... Modi ji is our leader and will continue to lead us in the future too..."

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE Updates: Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge has taken a jibe at the Narendra Modi government. In a poll rally in Bihar, he said, "If Ambani, Adani were sending black money to Congress, why did Modi govt not take action".

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE Updates: On the interim bail to Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, BJP candidate from New Delhi, Bansuri Swaraj said, "Interim bail has been granted to Arvind Kejriwal only for the purpose of campaigning and Supreme Court has already stated that he has to surrender on June 2... The bail has not been granted on merits, it doesn't mean that he is innocent...On the question of him being accused, the Delhi High Court has clearly said that Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal is involved in receiving kickbacks worth crores from alleged liquor policy..."

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE Updates: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee at a poll rally in Hooghly said, "Will not visit Raj Bhavan till C V Ananda Bose remains Bengal Governor".

C V Ananda Bose is facing molestation charges.

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE Updates: Union minister and BJP leader Anurag Thakur has taken a jibe at AAP leaders Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia. He told news agency PTI, "People like Kejriwal, Sisodia, Jain facing corruption charges can never be welcomed in BJP"

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE Updates: Union Home Minister and BJP leader Amit Shah has exuded confidence that the NDA will get more success in the fourth phase than it got in the first three.

"Parties in the NDA have reached near 200 seats after the first three phases of voting. The fourth phase of voting (on May 13) is very good for the NDA. We will get more success in the fourth phase than we got in the first three phases, and we will definitely proceed towards '400 paar'," said Amit Shah as quoted by news agency PTI.

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE Updates: Former Madhya Pradesh CM and BJP candidate from Vidisha, Shivraj Singh Chouhan is holding a roadshow in Ratlam.

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE Updates: Former Lok Sabha speaker and Congress leader Meira Kumar has claimed that PM Modi is nervous and therefore roaming in every nook and corner of the country.

"The Prime Minister is roaming in every nook and corner of the country. You can imagine how nervous he is. As far as reservation is concerned, it is a very sacred resolution of the Constitution. Tampering with reservation is against the Constitution...," said Meira Kumar.

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Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE Updates: Union Minister and BJP candidate from Hamirpur, Anurag Thakur is holding a roadshow in his constituency.

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE Updates: While addressing a public meeting in Odisha's Bargarh, PM Narendra Modi said, "The government in the state isn't run by the elected people anymore but it has been outsourced to other people... I have already declared, June 4 is the expiry date of BJD govt..."

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE Updates: While addressing a public meeting in Bargarh, Odisha, PM Narendra Modi said "In 25 years, one entire generation grows up and starts off their new lives. But, BJD has failed to lift Odisha from poverty in 25 years. There's anger against BJD leaders among people in Odisha."

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE Updates: While addressing 'Nyay Sankalp Sabha', Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said, "Whatever PM Modi says is a lie... whatever he says is just for the elections. He says that he is fighting for corruption alone. You have the power and all the resources... All the leaders of the world are with you. How can you be alone? He comes during elections and starts crying, saying that he was abused. He should learn determination and bravery from Indira Gandhi. But, you cannot learn from her because you call such a great woman anti-national."

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE Updates: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is holding a public meeting in Odisha's Bargarh.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday dubbed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's election speeches as "hollow talk" and accused him of using politics only with the aim of gaining power and not to serve people. 

She was speaking at a rally here to drum up support for Congress candidate Gowaal Padvi from the Nandurbar Lok Sabha seat, a day after PM Modi addressed a public meeting in this tribal-dominated constituency. 

"All that Modi ji speaks is 'khokhli baatein' (hollow talk) that does not carry any weight," she said. "Show me one picture of Narendra Modi visiting the house of an adivasi to understand their problems," Gandhi said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday challenged Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to name the districts of Odisha and their respective capitals without seeing them on paper and said that Odisha's development remains stunted as the state government doesn't trust the people's capabilities.

While addressing a public meeting in Odisha's Kandhamal, PM Modi said that Odisha has vast opportunities for the tourism sector to flourish.

"I want to challenge 'Naveen Babu' as he has been the CM for such a long, ask 'Naveen Babu' to name the districts of Odisha and their respective capitals without seeing them on paper. If the CM cannot name the districts of the state, will he know your pain?" the Prime Minister said.

On Saturday, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) attacked Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole, questioned Congress's intention, and alleged that the party and INDI Alliance are disrespecting SCs and STs of the society.

BJP’s National Spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi said, “Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole has given a very objectionable and controversial statement regarding Shri Ram temple. He has said that Shri Ramjanmabhumi needs to be purified. The important thing is this statement came just after President Droupadi Murmu visited the Shri Ram temple.”

Recently, Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole stoked a controversy by suggesting that if the opposition INDIA bloc wins the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, the alliance whose members include Tamil Nadu's DMK and West Bengal's Trinamool Congress will undertake a “shuddhikaran (purification)” of the Ram temple.

“It is not Lord Ram's idol there, but the child form, the Ram Lalla. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has acted against protocol in Ram temple construction. We will do it through rectifications and religion,” Nana Patole said.