Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Live Updates| 'Difficult For Them To Even Cross 300 Seats,' Says Shashi Tharoor

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Live Updates: The political parties have now shifted their focus towards the final phase of voting to be held on June 1.

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Live: It's time for the second-last phase to kick off! Campaigning ended for the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections on Thursday in which 58 constituencies spread across eight states and a UT will go to the polls on Saturday. Voting will take place on all seven Lok Sabha seats of Delhi and Haryana which BJP clean-sweeped in the 2019 polls.

Like other phases, this round of elections will also see some key contests across states. A total of 889 candidates are in the fray from the 58 Lok Sabha constituencies in this phase. The sixth phase includes eight seats in Bihar, all 10 seats in Haryana, one seat in Jammu and Kashmir, four in Jharkhand, all seven seats in Delhi, six in Odisha, 14 in Uttar Pradesh and eight in West Bengal. Forty-two assembly constituencies in Odisha are also going for polls in the third phase of Assembly elections being held in the state simultaneously with the Lok Sabha elections on May 25.

Given the voting for the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha elections on May 25, security has been beefed up in the national capital. As the mercury is on a constant rise in the national capital, the Additional DCP said that it is expected that the temperature might rise to 45 degrees Celsius.

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24 May 2024

23:22 IST

Lok Sabha Election 2024: Election Officer Briefs Ahead Of Phase 6 

Chief Election Officer Navdeep Rinwa intersected with the media today ahead of phase 6 of Lok Sabha Polls 2024.

"Tomorrow, the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha polls will be held. Voting will be conducted in a total of 14 Lok Sabha constituencies... 2192 sector magistrates, 282 zonal magistrates, 24 static magistrates and police forces have been appointed to maintain law and order... I appeal to all the voters to exercise their right to vote... I hope more voters will come out tomorrow and the upcoming seventh phase of polling... All the arrangements have been made," he said.

21:33 IST

Lok Sabha Election 2024: 'Difficult For Them To Even Cross 300 Seats,' Says Shashi Tharoor 

Congress leader and Thiruvananthapuram candidate Shashi Tharoor hits out at BJP and said that people are upset over unemployment, and inflation. He further added that the Congress party will get good results this time.

"It will be difficult for them to even cross 300 seats...After 5 phases of elections, we are seeing that people are upset with the government because there is unemployment, inflation... Congress will be in a better position than before. We will get good results in the North also," he said.

18:33 IST

Lok Sabha Election 2024: 'We Will Achieve 400 Paar Target,' Says Chirag Paswan 

 LJP (Ramvilas) Chief Chirag Paswan on Friday expressed his confidence over victory in the ongoing general election and said that "we will achieve our target of 400 Paar."

"On one side there is an example of a PM, who is providing schemes like Ujwala Yojana, Ayushman Bharat Yojana, PM Awas Yojana, PM Kisan Samman Nidhi... On the other side, there is an example of corruption, crime and land in exchange for the job... We have already crossed the majority seats mark. After all the seven phases of polling, we will achieve our target of 400 Paar," he said.

17:03 IST

Lok Sabha Elections 2024| 'State Governed By Remote Control': PM Modi Slams AAP-Led Punjab Government

PM Narendra Modi slammed the AAP-led government in Punjab on Saturday, stating that the state is governed by remote control from Delhi.

 "Unfortunately, Punjab is being governed via remote control. The Durbaris of Delhi are governing Punjab. The CM of Punjab cannot make a single decision on his own... The CM had to go to Tihar Jail to take new orders to run his government... After 1st June, the corrupt will go to jail again. Will the Punjab government function from the jail again?" Modi said while addressing a public rally in Gurdaspur.

16:50 IST

 Lok Sabha Elections 2024: '4 Crore Houses Constructed Under PM Awas Yojana,' Says  JP Nadda 

BJP national President JP Nadda addressed the public rally in Uttar Pradesh's  Ballia on Friday and said that under PM Awas Yojana more than 4 crore houses have been constructed. 

 "... I was an MLA in 1993. The BDO used to come to inform me about the two houses allotted for one Panchayat under the Indira Awas Yojana... I used to ask what would I do with two houses, I could not divide two houses among the people... Today, in the PM Awas Yojana, 4 crore houses have been constructed... Today, more than 50 houses are being constructed in every panchayat," he said.

13:27 IST

LS Polls 2024 Live Updates: INDIA Bloc Against BR Ambedkar's Ideals, Says Yogi

At his Maharajganj rally, UP CM Yogi Adityanath stated, "Their quest for power has harmed the nation. Their political maneuvers led to partition and societal division. The Congress-led alliance, whether SP, RJD, or AAP, has consistently opposed the ideals of BR Ambedkar."

#WATCH | At his Maharajganj rally, UP CM Yogi Adityanath says, "They have harmed the nation by the politics they have done to get into power. Their thirst for power led to partition and then they divided the society... Congress-led alliance be it SP, RJD or AAP, the truth is,… pic.twitter.com/JTOwKQR4OD

— ANI (@ANI) May 24, 2024

12:15 IST

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Maha Cong Prez Brings Up Pune Crash 

Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole says, "The government in Maharashtra itself is unconstitutional. We have been saying this since the very formation of the government...Continuously the BJP is trying to ruin Maharashtra. The government is behaving as if they do not value the lives of the people. The incident occurred in Pune, a businessman's son is made to write an essay at the police station...The administration works on what the government says. In yesterday's boiler blast, many lives were lost. The Uddhav Thackeray government had then taken the decision to shut them down...Since this government came to power, they kept those factories working because they were taking money from those businessmen. This led to the lose of lives of so many people..."

10:46 IST

Lok Sabha Elections: Polling Stations Gear Up For Phase 6 Voting

Polling parties dispatch with EVMs to voting centres in North-East Parliamentary Constituency, ahead of the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections 2024. BJP has fielded Manoj Tiwari from North East Delhi & Congress has fielded Kanhaiya Kumar.

10:15 IST

Lok Sabha Polls 2024: AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi Urges 'To Vote With Hope' 

Addressing a public meeting in Uttar Pradesh's Phulpur, MP & AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi says, "You voted for Congress, Socialist Party, Janta Dal, Janta Party and Samajwadi Party till now but you got nothing and to whom you voted for, you changed their destiny. You let them sit on the throne of either Delhi or Lucknow and to whomsoever you helped succeed, they destroyed us... We have been voting for the last 50-60 years with a sense of fear and that's why the problems increased. I want you to vote with hope..."

09:18 IST

Lok Sabha Elections 2025: Security Beefed Up For 6th Phase Polls

"In Shahdara, there are 166 polling stations and 827 polling booths. Staff has been appointed as per the guidelines of the Election Commission. A staff of 2500 will be on duty that day... The staff was briefed on May 20 and today... Drones will be used at sensitive polling booths..." said Additional DCP Vishnu Kumar Sharma.

As the mercury is on a constant rise in the national capital, the Additional DCP said that it is expected that the temperature might rise to 45 degrees Celsius. "Glucose and ORS have been distributed to the staff and they have been told that they must also carry necessary things with them to protect from heatwave," he added.

09:08 IST

Lok Sabha Chunaav 2024: Key Candidates In Fray 

Some of the prominent candidates in the fray include BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra, union minister Dharmendra Pradhan, PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti and former union minister Maneka Gandhi and former Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar. Bansuri Swaraj, Somnath Bharti, Manoj Tiwari, Kanhaiya Kumar, Dinesh Lal Yadav alias 'Nirahua', Dharmendra Yadav, Abhijit Gangopadhyay, Agnimitra Paul, Naveen Jindal, Raj Babbar, Deepender Singh Hooda, Kumari Selja and Aparajita Sarangia are among other prominent candidates in the fray.

08:45 IST

Lok Sabha Elections Phase 6: What Are The Voting Timings? 

Election Commission of India (ECI) said on Saturday that a total of 889 candidates from eight States and Union Territories (UTs) will contest elections in 58 constituencies. The voting will begin at 7 a.m. and end at 6 p.m.

08:30 IST

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Phase 6 Key Seats 

Some of the key seats in this phase include New Delhi, North-East Delhi, North-West Delhi and Chandni Chowk in the national capital and Sultanpur and Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh. Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag-Rajouri, West Bengal's Tamluk, Medinipur, Haryana's Karnal, Kurukshetra, Gurgaon, Rohtak and Odisha's Bhubaneswar, Puri and Sambalpur are some of the other key seats.