Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE | PM Modi Takes A Dig At SP, Congress, Says 'They Will Bulldoze The Ram Temple'

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 News Updates: Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, and other INDIA bloc partners will take part in a large rally in Amethi at 1 pm. Rahul and Akhilesh will attend a joint rally in Raebareli later in the day at 3 pm.

Lok Sabha Chunav 2024 Live Updates: As the fifth phase campaign for the Lok Sabha elections approaches its peak, top leaders from the national opposition alliance INDIA bloc and Maha Vikas Aghadi will address a massive rally here on Friday. Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, Nationalist Congress Party (SP) President Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena (UBT) President and former Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray will all attend and address the public meeting at the Bandra Kurla Complex grounds. In addition, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and representatives from other INDIA-MVA alliance members will be present. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will also hold an election rally in Mumbai's Shivaji Park at around 6 p.m on Friday.

Here are the major political events scheduled for May 17, Friday, in the run-up to the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha Elections 2024: 

• PM Modi will also address a public meeting in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki at 10 a.m. In the afternoon, he will hold additional public meetings in Fatehpur and Hamirpur, Uttar Pradesh.
• Union Home Minister Amit Shah will hold a high-level security review meeting in Srinagar with top officials from the civil, police, paramilitary, and intelligence agencies.
• Union Home Minister Amit Shah will visit Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, and Jharkhand today.
• Grand rally of INDIA alliance partners in Rae Bareli, Sonia Gandhi and Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi shall be part of a maha rally organised by INDIA Alliance partners in Amethi at 1 pm on Friday.
• Rahul Gandhi, the Congress leader, and Akhilesh Yadav, the president of the Samajwadi Party, will hold a joint rally in Raebareli at 3 p.m on Friday.
• Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will attend  the grand MVA rally in Mumbai on May 17. 

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17:28 PM 

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Dushyant Chautala Questions PM Modi Over Rally 

JJP leader and former Deputy CM of Haryana, Dushyant Chautala says, "The public wants change... People will vote in large numbers for the Jannayak Janta Party... In Rohtak, one thing is clear BJP and Congress are in collusion with each other...If BJP wants to seriously defeat Congress, why PM Modi doesn't hold a rally in Rohtak...BJP will be able to win close to 200 seats...

17: 14 PM 

PM Modi Addresses Mega Public Rally At Barabanki

Addressing a mega public meeting on Friday at Barabanki in BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh, ahead of the fifth phase of polling for the 18th Lok Sabha on May 20, PM Modi said, "If the Congress, SP and their INDIA partners come to power, our Ram Lalla would have to return to the tent again as they would run a bulldozer over the Ram Mandir. They should take lessons from Yogi-ji (Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath) on where to run bulldozers and where not to."

15:53 PM 

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 PM 

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..."