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Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE | PM Modi: 'SP's Love For Mafias Hasn't Ended Yet...'

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Lok Sabha Elections Live Updates: With an eye towards the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha Polls, the Congress-led INDIA-bloc and the Bhartiya Janta Party-led BJP are stepping up their poll campaigns. On May 20, the Lok Sabha poll's fifth phase is expected to take place in six states and two union territory. The battle for 93 seats involves 695 contenders in the phase 5. On June 4, the results for all the 543 constituencies will be announced.  

The states going for polling in the fifth phase include Bihar (5), Jharkhand (3), Maharashtra (13), Odisha (5), Uttar Pradesh (13), West Bengal (7), and Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir (2), and Ladakh (1). 

The slugfest over the Congress’ manifesto and BJP’s ‘Hindu-Muslim’ jibe continues for yet another phase. Prime Minister Narendra Modi defending himself from the accusations of igniting religion-based divide said that the day he does ‘Hindu-Muslim’, he will be unworthy of public life.  

Meanwhile, NCP (SP) leader, Sharad Pawar said that PM’s defensive statement can increase communal disharmony in the country instead of bringing them closer. 

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17 May 2024
15:53 IST

Lok Sabha Polls 2024: BJP To Win Just 20 Seats In South India? 

On Lok Sabha elections, Karnataka minister & Congress leader Ramalinga Reddy says, "They (BJP) will get a maximum of 20 seats in South India...Getting 400 seats is the dream of Amit Shah and Mr Modi. Just to mislead people they are telling this. They will hardly reach 200."

15:39 IST

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Minister Piyush Goyal Praises Annamalai, Madhavi Latha 

Union Minister and BJP candidate from Mumbai North Lok Sabha Seat Piyush Goyal says, "Annamalai has expanded the BJP in Tamil Nadu. Madhavi Latha has displayed 'Nari Shakti' and has impacted the whole of Telangana. Both of them are emerging leaders in the BJP. I am grateful to them for the support they have given in North Mumbai... Today's rally of the PM will ensure that all 6 seats of Mumbai are won by the BJP..."

14:23 IST

2024 Polls Live | 'We Have To Protect Constitution': Rahul Gandhi

Addressing a rally in Amethi, UP Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said, "The 2024 Lok Sabha elections are different. For the first time, a political party and its leaders have openly said they would discard the Constitution. We must protect it. The Constitution is our voice and our future, and Narendra Modi wants to destroy it."

14:12 IST

Lok Sabha Polls 2024 Live | 'SP's Love For Mafias Hasn't Ended Yet...': PM Modi

In his address to a public meeting in Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh, PM Narendra Modi said, "The SP's love for mafias hasn't ended yet; their party chief is still venerating the mafia. Pakistan used to attack our country, and Congress would give them a clean chit, fabricating the false narrative of 'Saffron Terrorism'..."

12:36 IST

LS Polls 2024 Live | 'More Frequently PM Visit Bihar More Benefit To INDIA Bloc': Misa Bharati

RJD candidate from the Pataliputra Lok Sabha constituency, Misa Bharti said, "The more frequently PM Modi and BJP leaders visit Bihar, the more it will benefit the INDIA alliance. They haven't fulfilled any of the promises they made in the past 10 years."

12:12 IST

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Live| Ram Lalla Will Be Back In Tent If SP, Congress Come To Power: Modi

In his address to a public meeting in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki, PM Narendra Modi said, "...If SP and Congress come to power, Ram Lalla will be in a tent again and they will run a bulldozer on Ram temple. They should take tuition from Yogi ji, where to run a bulldozer and where you shouldn't."

10:46 IST

LS Polls 2024 Live: Amit Shah Takes Dig At Kejriwal, Says 'Wherever He Will Go Liquor Scam Will Follow'

On out-on-interim bail Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal campaigning for elections, Union Home Minister Amit Shah says, "As a voter, I believe that wherever he will go people will remember liquor scam...Kayi logon ko toh badi bottle dikhai padegi."

10:25 IST

2024 Lok Sabha Elections Live| Sanjay Raut Takes A Dig At Raj Thackeray For Sharing Stage With Modi

Speaking to reportersShiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Rau said, "BJP had cut its ties with Raj Thackeray citing his party attacks on North Indians but today PM Modi will share the stage with him. The leader who once said that I wouldn't let PM Modi and Amit Shah come to Maharashtra will be there on stage with the PM..."

09:08 IST

LS Polls 2024 Live| BJP Needs Plan B? Amit Shah Answers

In an interview with the news agency ANI, Union Home Minister and BJP leader Amit Shah answered the question if 'BJP has a plan B in case it doesn't reach the majority mark?' "Plan B needs to be made only when there is less than 60% chance for Plan A (to succeed). I am certain that PM Modi will come to power with a thumping majority...", said Amit Shah.

09:05 IST

2024 Lok Sabha Elections Live| Misusing Parliamentary Majority Resonates With Congress Not BJP: Amit Shah

Addressing BJP's "400+ seats" goal and speculations of constitutional changes, Home Minister Amit Shah told ANI, "We've had the majority to change the Constitution for the last 10 years and never did it. Misusing the majority is not part of my party's history. It was during Indira Gandhi's time that the Congress misused their majority,"

07:17 IST

2024 Lok Sabha Elections: Uddhav Thackeray Slams BJP, Says 'Farce Of Past 10 Yrs Visible'

Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray said the BJP has failed to convey a narrative to the people in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. Unemployment and inflation affect everyone, and people are angry about the BJP's rule of the last ten years, he said in an interview to TV9 Marathi.

"The BJP has not succeeded in communicating any narrative to the people in this election. Its farce of the last ten years is visible to the country," he said.

 

07:06 IST

2024 LS Polls Live| We Are And Will Be Part Of INDIA Bloc At National Level: Mamata Banerjee

A day after announcing that he would extend outside support to the opposition front INDIA after it comes to power, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said she is very much part of the anti-BJP alliance, the INDIA bloc at the national level and would form the next government with it.

06:45 IST

Absurd, Unfortunate: Rajnath On Kejriwal's Claims On Modi's 'Retirement'

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh dubbed AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal's remarks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "retirement" and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's "removal" as "absurd and unfortunate".

"The Delhi chief minister said that Modi ji will not become the prime minister after the 2024 elections. I am surprised. He has just come out on bail, he has to go to jail again after June 1 and he is talking such nonsense about the prime minister of India."

06:07 IST

Lok Sabha Elections Live: BJP Struggling To Reach 200 Seats In LS polls, Says Kharge

Asserting that INDIA bloc will form the next government at the Centre, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday said the BJP and its partners are struggling to get 200 seats as people are opposed to their policies.

Referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s claim that the NDA will secure 400-plus seats this time, Kharge asked, "From where the BJP will get these seats? You (Modi) are nowhere in sight in South India. In the rest of the country, seats will come down by half. BJP will not form the government at the Centre. It will struggle to secure 200 seats."

23:45 IST

Lok Sabha Elections Live: Amit Shah Meets Delegations From Gujjar Bakarwal

Union Home Minister Amit Shah met the delegations from the Gujjar Bakarwal, Pahadi and Sikh delegations earlier today. A representative of the Pahadi community Mohammad Akbar Khan says, "They (BJP) included us in the ST category and did us a favour. And we will also do them a favour in return. Whatever used to come for the Pahadi people, NC and PDP used to eat it. Sikh, Pahadi, Gujjar and Kashmiri community have come to meet (Amit Shah)..."

23:09 IST

Lok Sabha Elections: PM Modi Slams Gandhi Family, Says 'They Tore Apart Constitution At Different Times'

Slamming Congress and the Gandhi family over amending the Constitution during their tenure, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that till the time he is alive, he won't allow anyone to play with the basic fundamentals of the Constitution. Prime Minister Modi said that four members of the Gandhi family- former Prime Ministers Jawahar Lal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi fiddled with the Constitution for their own political goals.

When asked in an interview with India Today on the Opposition claims that the Constitution will be rewritten if BJP is voted to power, Prime Minister Modi said, "The question that should be asked- who was the first to play with the Constitution? Pandit Nehru did. He brought the first amendment which was meant to restrict freedom of speech. His daughter (Indira Gandhi) then overturned the court verdict by bringing an amendment. Then her son (Rajiv Gandhi) came and overturned Shah Bano's verdict. He changed the Constitution."

21:46 IST

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE: Yogi Adityanath Says, 'Kejriwal Has Lost His Mind' 

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, on Thursday said that his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal had lost his mind after going to jail.  Yogi Adityanath said this while responding to claims made by Kejriwal earlier in the day during a press conference in Lucknow.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convener claimed that there was a plan to remove Yogi Adityanath as Chief Minister if the BJP retains power.

"Kejriwal, who ruined Anna Hazare's dreams, is now taking my name. He had made Anna Hazare protest against the Congress and is now adorning the party around his neck. He has ruined the dreams of Anna Hazare. Anna Hazare can never forgive him for this sin," CM Adityanath said while addressing a rally in Hamirpur.

 

 

20:35 IST

Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik holds a roadshow in Bhubaneswar

Ahead of the Lok Sabha Elections, CM Patnail holds a roadshow. Watch: 

19:57 IST

Punjab Lok Sabha Elections: Delhi CM Kejriwal Visits Golden Temple 

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann arrived at the Golden Temple in Amritsar to pay obeisance, earlier today.

19:07 IST

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: CPI(M)'s Sitaram Yechury Says, 'NDA Govt. Will Not Be Formed' 

CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury says, "After the four phases of elections it is clear that NDA government will not be formed. Since the chances of the INDIA alliance forming the government have increased, TMC's Mamata Banerjee is saying that she will support from outside. She says that she played a major role in the formation of the INDIA alliance and then says that she will support from outside..."

18:33 IST

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: PM Modi Mocks Rahul Gandhi Over 'Khata Khat' Remark

"For the 'shehzadas' of Samajwadi Party and Congress, the country's development is like the game of 'gilli danda'. The 'shehzadas' born in palaces are neither used to hard work, nor bringing results. They say the country will develop on its own, and say it will be done 'khatakhat, khatakhat'," Modi said at a rally in Uttar Pradesh's Pratapgarh.

17:30 IST

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE | Amit Shah Makes BIG Promise Of Building 'Sita Temple' Next

After Ram Temple, monument honouring Sita will be built by PM, says HM Shah in Sitamarhi Patna, May 16 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah said during an election campaign in Bihar’s Sitamarhi District on Thursday that just like Prime Minister Narendra Modi had got the Ram Temple made in Ayodhya a monument dedicated to Sita would be built in her birthplace. “PM Modi completed the work of building a grand temple of Ramlalla in Ayodhya. Now the work of building a great monument at the birthplace of Ma Sita remains. “Those who kept themselves away from Ramlalla's temple cannot build this monument. Only PM Modi and BJP can build a monument dedicated to her life. We will also connect Janakpur and Sitamarhi through the Ramayana circuit,” HM Shah said at the rally.

16:59 IST

Lok Sabha Polls 2024: PM Modi Attacks Congress 

Addressing a public meeting in Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi says, "Congress has snatched OBC reservation in Karnataka and given it to Muslims. Congress wants to change the constitution and implement this rule across the country but SP, which has betrayed the backward classes, is silent on this... These people are appealing for 'vote jihad' against Modi..."

16:48 IST

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: BJP Leader Manoj Tiwari Slams Arvind Kejriwal 

BJP leader Manoj Tiwari says, "Arvind Kejriwal is a corrupt person & Supreme Court has made it clear by not giving him bail. He was given only interim bail. But now the people of Delhi that the women here are not safe...There are several cases of party leaders slapping women...The people of Delhi are in shock after the incident that happened with AAP Rajya Sabha MP..."

16:06 IST

Odisha Lok Sabha Polls Live: Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge Slams BJD, BJP 

Targeting BJP and BJD, Congress President Malliakarjun Kharge said that Odisha is an important state for the party. "Many of our leaders have come from here. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru ji got support from Patnaik sahab during independence struggle...Naveen Patnaik has been CM for 24 years...The open fight between them (BJP&BJP) caused a lot of loss to the state. There is unemployment& inflation in Odisha. If we have to amend things here we have to change the both the governments. What development has happened here? A man has served a state for 24 years and yet there is high unemployment. Both BJP & BJD are responsible for this siutation in this state," said Kharge.
 

13:53 IST

Lok Sabha Polls Live Updates: Congress Says Wave Of Change Across Country

On the Lok Sabha Elections 2024, Congress leader Pawan Khera said, "There is a wave of change in the entire country and UP is also moving forward in the direction of change...PM Modi is tired, he has been the Prime Minister for 10 years. It is not befitting for the Prime Minister to talk about dividing the country...PM Modi gets scared while talking about the real issues..."
 

12:36 IST

Lok Sabha Live: Congress Slams BJP Over Poll Promises

Karnataka Deputy CM and Congress leader DK Shivakumar, who is in Lucknow for campaign, said, "...I don't know who has snatched 'Mangalsutra'. It is a ridiculous statement that PM Modi has given. They (BJP) had promised that they would double the income. I would like to ask where the income has doubled. They promised to waive off the loans of the farmers. We waived the loans of the farmers when our coalition government was there... For 60,000 posts, more than 60 lakh people applied. It shows that this is a very great unemployment problem. Your boys are coming to other parts of the country looking for jobs... PM Modi has said that, at any cost, he will not change the constitution. I welcome it. But why has he not expelled that parliament member who announced that they will transform the constitution?..."

11:55 IST

Lok Sabha Chunav 2024 Live: PM Modi Slams Congress For Spreading ‘Communal fire’ In Country

PM Modi was addressing the public meeting in Azamgarh, he said that he unmasked the true face of Congress, who was burning communal fire in country for 60 years. Modi asserted, ”It's Modi who has unmasked you (Congress). You are a hypocrite, communal. You left this nation to burn in communal fire for 60 years.” 

He added that from anywhere, everywhere, gather whatever strength (Congress) need, but CAA can’t be terminated. 

11:35 IST

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: PM Modi Addresses Rally In Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh

Prime Minister Narendra Nodi Addressed a public meeting in Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh. While speaking at the rally, PM highlighted that people of Varanasi celebrated the festival of democracy on his day of filing nomination papers from Varanasi Lok Sabha seat.

11:32 IST

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Live Updates: BJP President JP Nadda Holds Roadshow In Odisha's Bhubaneshwar

11:08 IST

Lok Sabha Elections Live Updates: Arvind Kejriwal Says, BJP Will Remove Yogi From UP CM Post

Arvind Kejriwal  was speaking at the joint press conference in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow, he said that if BJP comes to power, it will remove Yogi Adityanath from post of UP chief minister.

 

11:00 IST

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: BJP Will End Reservation, Asserts Akhilesh Yadav

SP Chief Akhilesh Yadav was in a joint press conference in Lucknow with Arvind Kejriwal, he said that if BJP will come to power it will end reservations.

10:44 IST

Lok Sabha Chunav Live: 'Politics Should Not Be Done...', Says AAP MP Sanjay Singh On Swati Maliwal 

On AAP Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal's assault case, AAP MP Sanjay Singh was present at the joint press conference in Lucknow when he said that the Prime Minister has remained silent on many issues including Prajwal Revanna case, Wrestlers protest on Jantar Mantar. Singh said that the PM should answer on all the issues that he has mentioned.

He added that AAP is their family and Politics should not be done on Swati Maliwal's issue.

10:29 IST

Lok Sabhsa Elections Live Updates: Akhilesh Yadav Says, PM Modi Is Seeking Votes For Amit Shah

Akhilesh Yadav held a joint press conference with Arvind Kejriwal in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow. Speaking to the media, Akhilesh said that NDA will not even reach 140 seat mark. He further claimed that PM Modi is seeking votes to make Amit Shah the next Prime Minister.

10:24 IST

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE: Amit Shah To Hold Rallies In Bihar; Visit Srinagar

Union Home minister Amit Shah to address two public meetings in Bihar, the first one at Sitamarhi followed by the public meeting in Madhubani. He is then scheduled to visit Srinagar around 6PM.

10:22 IST

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE Updates: PM Modi's Schedule For Today

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is slated to address four public meetings in Uttar Pradesh. The itinerary includes Lalganj in Azamgarh at 11 am, Jaunpur at 12:30 pm, Bhadohi at 2 pm, and Pratapgarh at 3:45 pm.

10:15 IST

Lok Sabha Chuav 2024 Live Updates: Kapil Sibbal Tells Amit Shah Not To Worry About 'Swati Maliwal Assault Case'

Rajya Sabha MP and Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal claimed that the Swati Maliwal case is an internal matter of the Aam Aadmi Party. He told ANI, "Why he (Union HM Amit Shah) is worried about this (Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal assault case). It's an internal matter of AAP. You think about Prajwal." He added that why Amit Shah has not given statements on the Prajwal Revanna Obscene Video Case.

10:14 IST

Lok Sabha Elections Live: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal Reaches Lucknow For Joint Presser 

Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party convener, Arvind Kejriwal reached Lucknow at the Samajwadi Party office to host a joint press conference with Akhilesh Yadav. The SP Chief received him at the office entrance. 

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