06:24:30 PM IST, 15 May 2024
Elections 2024 Live News: SC junks plea of Tamil Nadu-based farmers’ leader seeking extension of time for filing nomination papers to contest from Varanasi against PM Modi
06:21:36 PM IST, 15 May 2024
Elections 2024 Live News: Arvind Kejriwal during roadshow in Chandni Chowk LS constituency
- If you vote for BJP on May 25, I will go to jail, but if you vote for INDIA alliance, I will be saved: Delhi CM and AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal
- During roadshow in Chandni Chowk LS constituency, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal gives slogan ‘Jo kare Kejriwal ko pyaar woh kare Modi ko inkaar’
- “I have come directly from jail, for you all. They put me in jail; I missed the people out there so much. While in jail, I was thinking what was my fault? We are insignificant people and so is our party, with governments in just two states. My fault was that I arranged good education and made schools for your children; I gave round the clock electricity to the people, this was my fault,” said Delhi CM and AAP national convenor
06:23:47 PM IST, 15 May 2024
Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Live Updates: Mamata Banerjee has said TMC will provide outside support to INDIA
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who had suspended her INDIA bloc membership amid a dispute with Congress over seat-sharing, seems to have softened her stance. She now indicates willingness to “offer external support” to the Opposition bloc if they win the general election.
05:55:21 PM IST, 15 May 2024
Elections 2024 Live News: Blue print for first 100 days in third term ready, says PM Modi
05:53:18 PM IST, 15 May 2024
Dharmendra Pradhan’s ‘Padayatra’ for double-engine govt in Odisha
06:02:26 PM IST, 15 May 2024
PM Modi at election rally in Kalyan, Maharashtra
- Congress govt in Karnataka included Muslims in list of OBCs overnight: PM Modi
- Congress’ Shehzada playing old game of appeasement: PM Modi
- Congress ecosystem claims Modi is indulging in Hindu-Muslim; I am exposing those dividing country in name of Hindu-Muslim: PM Modi
- Development halted during Congress regime; I got things into top gear: PM Modi
- Your dreams are my mission: PM Modi
- We lifted 25 crore people out of poverty: PM
- Your dreams are my mission: PM Modi
- India is achieving big targets; blue print for first 100 days in third term ready: PM Modi
05:39:27 PM IST, 15 May 2024
Elections 2024 Live News: Amit Shah on Lok Sabha election in Bihar
“This election is to make Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister and the strength of our ‘gathbandhan’ is very good. We will repeat the results of the previous election.”
05:27:22 PM IST, 15 May 2024
Elections 2024 Live News: Amit Shah on seats in Uttar Pradesh
“We will increase the number of seats (that the BJP will win in Uttar Pradesh)…We won 65 in the last elections and we will go ahead of that.”
05:26:41 PM IST, 15 May 2024
Elections 2024 Live News: Amit Shah on Opposition’s “Dakshin mein BJP saaf aur Uttar mein half” retort
“BJP will emerge as biggest party in south India on June 4” remark, Union Home Minister Amit Shah says, “I stand by my statement. Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Tamil Nadu – combining the seats in these 5 states, BJP will emerge as the single largest party.
05:24:29 PM IST, 15 May 2024
Elections 2024 Live News: Amit Shah on electoral guarantees of Congress party
“I called it ‘Chinese guarantee’ on the basis of their durability…Those guarantees hold no meaning. They say that during elections and then forget about it.”
05:16:34 PM IST, 15 May 2024
Elections 2024 Live News: Amit Shah on Rahul Gandhi contesting polls from Wayanad (Kerala) and Rabareli (Uttar Pradesh)
“Anyone can contest from anywhere but Rahul Gandhi should have said before elections that he is going to contest on 2 seats. I think from the democratic point of view, it is not right to hide it…He should have told the people of Wayanad about it and then asked them to make their choice…When you see a threat in post-poll survey, and then you come to Raebaerli, I think it is not correct.”
We are winning 24-30 seats in West Bengal
– Amit Shah
05:10:03 PM IST, 15 May 2024
Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Preparations underway at Ghatkopar in Maharashtra’s Mumbai for PM Modi’s roadshow scheduled to be held later today
05:12:20 PM IST, 15 May 2024
Elections 2024 Live News: Amit Shah at poll rally in Ganjam
- In 25 years of BJD rule, CM Naveen Patnaik pushed Odisha back 50 years: Amit Shah
- BJP to make public judicial commission report on missing keys of Jagannath temple’s Ratna Bhandar if it comes to power in Odisha: Amit Shah
- BJP will implement ‘One Nation One Ration Card’ scheme in Odisha if it comes to power in state: Amit Shah
The entire Ghamandiya alliance (INDI Alliance) boycotted the Ram Mandir Pran Prathishta ceremony – My clear allegation is that they did this fearing their minority vote bank…On Eid, you have no issues spending, celebrating Eid with Muslim brothers, even though you aren’t Muslim, but despite being Hindu you won’t attend the Ram Mandir Pran Prathistha because your Muslim vote bank will be upset…what kind of politics is this?
– Union HM Amit Shah
04:07:23 PM IST, 15 May 2024
Elections 2024 Live News: Quotes from PM Modi’s speech in Maharashtra
- “Splitting budget on religious lines dangerous; for Congress, minority means its dear vote bank”
- “Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar was against religion-based reservation”
- “Modi is the “chowkidar” of rights of the oppressed; he won’t let them be snatched away”
- “Your service is my life’s biggest aim. In the last 10 years, you have seen my work and now, I have come to seek your blessings for the third term, to seek your blessings for a ‘Viksit Bharat'”
- “INDI alliance leaders suggesting that small parties merge with Congress so that they can at least stand as Opposition party”
- “Entire world is praising the way India fought against coronavirus”
04:02:59 PM IST, 15 May 2024
Elections 2024 Live News: BJP will implement ‘One Nation One Ration Card’ scheme in Odisha if it comes to power in state, says Amit Shah at poll rally in Ganjam
03:57:48 PM IST, 15 May 2024
Elections 2024 Live News: PM Modi in Maharashtra
During an election rally in Pimpalgaon Baswant, Maharashtra, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the crowd, expressing his desire for their support in securing a third term. He emphasised that serving the people remains his life’s greatest objective.
03:55:52 PM IST, 15 May 2024
Elections 2024 Live News: Amit Shah in Odisha’s Ganjam
During a public rally in Ganjam, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said, ” ‘Naveen Babu’ won’t come again, people of Odisha have said goodbye to him. ‘Naveen Babu’ is not required here, a BJP CM is going to come here…’Naveen Babu’ feels that because of ‘Ayushman Bharat’, his popularity will reduce, but on 1st June, ‘Naveen Babu’ is leaving…”
03:42:20 PM IST, 15 May 2024
Kejriwal who is involved in liquor scam and is out of jail for only 15 days, can’t be trusted, says Congress candidate
Congress Lok Sabha Candidate from Jalandhar, Charanjit Singh Channi said, “Kejriwal who is involved in liquor scam and is out of jail for only 15 days, can’t be trusted… A big liquor scam happened in Delhi and the same happened in Punjab also… We demand an inquiry into it…Instead of being welcomed, he should be opposed…”
03:40:33 PM IST, 15 May 2024
Elections 2024 Live News: 5T Chairman and BJD leader VK Pandian says, “We are in Deogarh today. With the blessings of Mahaprabhu (Lord Jagannath) and people, our favourite CM Naveen Babu will again take oath on June 9 and his first order will be to provide free power supply for 90 per cent population of Odisha and extension of Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojna for all including government servants…”
03:20:16 PM IST, 15 May 2024
Elections 2024 Live News: Mother of Bhojpuri singer Pawan Singh, Pratima Devi filed her nomination from Karakat Lok Sabha constituency yesterday on the last day of nomination filing.
02:43:09 PM IST, 15 May 2024
Elections 2024 Live News: No objection to us forming the govt but PM Modi getting 400 seats, says Himanta Biswa Sarma
Addressing a public meeting in Jharkhand’s Giridih, Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said, “Congress party, Rahul Gandhi, Hemant Soren ask why PM Modi needs 400 seats. It means they have no objection to us forming the govt but PM Modi getting 400 seats… Last time we got 300 seats, we did Pran Pratishtha of Ram temple. If we built the Ram temple with 300 seats, won’t Krishnajanmbhoomi temple be built when we get 400 seats? Shouldn’t we build it? Aurangzeb has made ‘Shahi Idgah’ at Krishnjanmbhoomi, hasn’t the time come when we should build a temple in place of the Idgah? Shouldn’t we build a temple in place of the Gyanvapi mosque? With 300 seats, PM Modi has built the Ram temple, with 400 seats, he will build the Krishnjanmbhoomi temple and a temple at the place of Gyanvapi mosque.”
02:07:24 PM IST, 15 May 2024
Elections 2024 Live News: Former JD(U) MLA joins Congress
- The Congress in Bihar on Wednesday claimed to have received a shot in the arm with the induction of JD(U) leader and former MLA Poonam Devi Yadav.
- She joined the Congress here at the Sadaqat Ashram, the BPCC headquarters, in the presence of state president Akhilesh Prasad Singh.
- Yadav, who had won the Khagaria assembly seat three times in a row, lost to Chhatrapati Yadav of the Congress in 2020 polls by a thin margin of 3,000 votes.
- Her husband Ranveer Yadav had also won the seat, in 1990, as an Independent.
01:26:52 PM IST, 15 May 2024
Elections 2024 Live News: Even India’s biggest millionaires do not maintain a lifestyle like PM Modi, says AAP’s Sanjay Singh
“I think that even the biggest millionaires of our country do not maintain a lifestyle that PM Modi does. And he calls himself a ‘fakir’ and says that he will go back with a ‘jhola’. But now the country is asking you to show what all is there is your ‘jhola’,” said AAP leader Sanjay Singh on Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi’s ‘spotless Kurta’ remark on PM Modi.
12:59:26 PM IST, 15 May 2024
Elections 2024 Live News: PoK will merge with India if BJP gets 400 seats in Lok Sabha polls, says Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma in Jharkhand
12:53:20 PM IST, 15 May 2024
Elections 2024 Live News: BJP’s Annamalai confident of securing majority in upcoming phases
Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai said, “In 4 phases, we have done 380. There are 3 more phases to go and 163 more to be done. In my personal opinion, we have crossed simple majority a long time ago. Now, the heavyweight constituencies are coming, including in Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi. I am extremely confident that the numbers we have set — 370 for BJP and 400 for NDA — is not only realistically possible, we are almost on track to achieve it and 100% we will achieve it.”
12:08:34 PM IST, 15 May 2024
Elections 2024 Live News: Veteran Congress leader Dambarudhar Ulaka dies at 86
- Veteran Congress leader and former Odisha minister Dambarudhar Ulaka died of old age-related ailments, family sources said on Wednesday.
- He was 86.
- Ulaka breathed his last while undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday night.
- Family sources said Ulaka’s funeral will be held at his birthplace Bankili in Rayagada district.
- He was elected to Odisha Assembly 5 times on Congress ticket from Bissam-Cuttack seat in Rayagada district. He represented the seat in 1974, 1977, 1995, 2004 and 2009.
- The veteran leader’s son Nilamadhab Ulaka is contesting the elections from the Bissam-Cuttack assembly segment as an independent after being denied ticket by the Congress.
12:07:15 PM IST, 15 May 2024
Elections 2024 Live News: Kharge pledges free ration
- Adding to its list of sops, the Congress has promised 10 kilograms of free ration to the poorer parts of India if the Opposition’s coalition is voted to power.
- “If the INDIA bloc is voted to power, we will provide 10 kilograms of free ration every month to the poor,” Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge said in Lucknow.
11:52:57 AM IST, 15 May 2024
Elections 2024 Live News: Kharge raises concerns over democracy
Congress National President Mallikarjun Kharge said, “…We all should work together to protect the future, democracy and the constitution of the country otherwise we will become slaves again. If there won’t be a democracy but autocracy and dictatorship, how will you elect someone with your ideology? Wherever any big leader of the BJP is contesting, opposition party leaders are being stopped from filing nominations… I have seen in Hyderabad that one woman candidate of BJP was checking women’s identities by removing the burqa. Is this how free and fair elections are conducted…?
10:40:23 AM IST, 15 May 2024
Elections 2024 Live News: Sanjay Raut raises concern over PM Modi’s alleged meeting with Praful Patel
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut said, “The PM who alleged Praful Patel of having relations with Dawood and Iqbal Mirchi, he was with the same Praful Patel yesterday. He (Praful Patel) put the turban of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj on the head of PM Modi, we don’t give that turban to someone, it’s special. Who has given this right to Praful Patel?… PM Modi and Praful Patel have disrespected Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and Maharashtra.”
09:11:40 AM IST, 15 May 2024
Elections 2024 Live News: Giriraj Singh claims Mamata Banerjee wants Bengal to be ‘Muslim state’
- Union Minister Giriraj Singh said, “…Mamata Banerjee wants Bengal to be a Muslim state. In the last election, her minister used to show journalists, a ‘mini-Pakistan’, which means she wants to make Wesh Bengal, the ‘Pakistan of India’. When our govt is formed, NRC, CAA, UCC and population control will be implemented and her dictatorship like ‘Kim Jong’ will be ended…”
- The Union Minister further said, “Rahul Gandhi & Lalu Yadav who project themselves as well-wishers of backwards, in Karnataka they have ended the reservations of backwards by giving Muslims the status of OBC. In future, they want to create an Islamic state in the country…”
08:40:28 AM IST, 15 May 2024
Elections 2024 Live News: Controversial statement against Maharashtra Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis
- Mumbai Crime Branch arrested former journalist Ketan Tirodkar. Ketan Tirodkar threatened and defamed Maharashtra Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis on social media by posting a video alleging that he helps the drug mafia and that he does not take strict actions against the drug mafia, said Mumbai Crime Branch.
- Ketan Tirodkar was presented in the court, where the court sent him to police custody for 3 days.
08:42:11 AM IST, 15 May 2024
Elections 2024 Live News: “I never said Hindu or Muslim; I talked about poor families,” says PM Modi
- Clarifying his “infiltrators” and “those with more children” remarks, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in an interview with News18 said that he did not only talk about Muslims but spoke about every poor family, adding that the day he starts doing Hindu-Muslim, he will be “unworthy of public life.”
- In an interview with News 18, PM Modi said that he does not market love towards Muslims, “I do not work for a vote bank. I believe in Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas.”
- “I am shocked. Who told you that whenever one talks of people with more children, the inference is they are Muslims? Why are you so unjust towards Muslims? This is the situation in poor families too. Where there is poverty, there are more children, irrespective of their social circle. I didn’t mention either Hindu or Muslim. I have said that one should have as many children as you can take care of. Don’t let a situation arise where the government has to take care of your children,” the Prime Minister said on Tuesday.
- Referring to the post-Godhra riots in Gujarat when he was the Chief Minister of the state, PM Modi said that his opponents “tarnished” his image among the Muslims after 2002 (the Godhra riots).
- “This issue is not about Muslims. Irrespective of how supportive individual Muslims are of Modi, there is a wave of thought that dictates to them, ‘do this, do that’. In my house, there are all Muslim families around me. Eid was also celebrated in our house, and there were other festivals in our house. Food was not cooked in our house on the day of Eid. Food used to come to my place from all the Muslim families. When Muharram started, we needed to come out from under the Tajiya, we were taught. I grew up in that world. Even today, many of my friends are Muslims. After 2002 (Godhra), my image was tarnished,” he added.
08:36:22 AM IST, 15 May 2024
Elections 2024 Live News: YSRCP, TDP trade charges on post-poll violence in Andhra Pradesh
- Leaders of the ruling YSRCP and opposition TDP levelled allegations against each other for the post-poll violence reported in parts of Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday.
- TDP supremo N Chandrababu Naidu said people who are afraid of losing the elections are responsible for the attack on party leader P Venkata Mani Prasad (Pulivarthi Nani) in Tirupati.
- Around 2:30 pm on Tuesday, TDP Chandragiri assembly candidate Pulivarthi Nani was attacked at Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam, said a police official. Police suspect that Nani’s political opponents could have attacked the TDP leader, who is in a stable condition.
- “I seriously condemn YSRCP hooligans attack on alliance’s (NDA) Chandragiri constituency candidate Pulivarthi Nani,” said Naidu in a post on X.
- The opposition leader accused the police of ‘failing’ to provide protection to people and opposition parties after pollingand called on the poll panel to take immediate action.
- Meanwhile, YSRCP leader and Home Minister T Vanita called DGP Harish Kumar Gupta, drawing his attention to violent incidents reported during the polls.
- She claimed that these were committed by TDP leaders and activists against BC, SC and ST communities as they purportedly did not vote for the TDP.
- She demanded the immediate arrest of the TDP leaders and workers who were allegedly involved in these attacks.
08:32:51 AM IST, 15 May 2024
Elections 2024 Live News: Amit Shah, Rahul Gandhi to campaign in Odisha
- Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will address election rallies in support of their respective party candidates in Odisha on Wednesday. Lok Sabha and Assembly elections are being held simultaneously in Odisha.
- Shah will hold a roadshow and two public meetings on Wednesday, while Rahul Gandhi will join a bike rally and address an election rally on Wednesday.
- Sources in BJP said that Shah after his arrival in Bhubaneswar will address two public meetings at Sorada under the Aska Lok Sabha seat and at Boudh under Kandhamal Parliamentary constituency before coming to Cuttack to attend a roadshow in the evening.
- Rourkela and Kantabanji, the second seat from where BJD president and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is contesting the Assembly polls, have reportedly been omitted from Shah’s itinerary, according to BJP sources.
- Congress candidate from Bolangir assembly segment Samarendra Mishra said Gandhi will join a bike rally and attend address a public meeting at Bolangir on Wednesday.
08:31:43 AM IST, 15 May 2024
Elections 2024 Live News: PM Modi to be in Maharashtra
PM Modi will hold a roadshow in Mumbai North East Constituency for party nominee Mihir Kotecha and he will also address two campaign rallies in Nashik and Kalyan.
08:25:30 AM IST, 15 May 2024
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