Lok Sabha Election 2024 Highlights: PM Modi holds roadshow in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur

Lok Sabha Election 2024 news LIVE Updates: Tripura Police have launched a special anti-narcotic drive ahead of the Lok Sabha elections to break the drug nexus active in the state, an official told ANI on Saturday. According to police, at least three to four successful raids were conducted in different locations under the jurisdiction of Agartala city. Being the latest, a woman identified as Kala Devi was arrested from the Goalabasti area located at Khejurbagan here in Agartala.

Lok Sabha Election 2024 news LIVE Updates: In the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections, Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) chief Kamal Haasan called for a 'Dravidian model' of governance and development on Saturday over the much-hyped 'Gujarat Model.

"If I would have asked this South Chennai seat to them(DMK) i would have got it but I did not come here for seat. I come here to seek votes for our sister. Don't forget this symbol its rising sun , we have to make our sister win in this constituency, after winning Iwill come for sure, it's for our nation we have to do our rights," Haasan said while addressing the campaign event.

"People cannot always say that the Gujarat model is great, we have come to this model, which is also great (Dravidian model). Hereafter India should follow 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," the MNM chief said.

Lok Sabha Election 2024 news LIVE Updates: With the Shiv Sena led by him dropping two sitting MPs, Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde on Saturday said those who do not get tickets for the Lok Sabha polls “will not be abandoned.”

"There are some equations, there is elective merit (which plays a role in candidate selection). Those who have not been nominated will be respected, rehabilitated. Due respect will be given to them. They will not be abandoned," Shinde said at a party function here.

Lok Sabha Election 2024 news LIVE Updates: In a scathing attack against the BJP-led Central government, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday alleged that the electoral bonds scheme was the "world's biggest scam" and claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has "his people" in the election commission. The Supreme Court had struck down the electoral bonds scheme as unconstitutional in a ruling in February. Addressing a rally on the outskirts of Hyderabad a day after the release of Congress's manifesto for the Lok Sabha polls, he termed the Enforcement Directorate as "Extortion Directorate".

Lok Sabha Election 2024 news LIVE Updates: The JMM will organise a 'Nyay Ulgulan Rally' in Ranchi on April 21.
Kalpana Soren, the wife of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) leader and former CM Hemant Soren, held a meeting with party workers here on Saturday to ensure the success of the Ulgulan Rally scheduled for April 21.