Lok Sabha Elections 2024: 'Bid to protect Shahjahan Sheikh,' says BJP on TMC leaders' dharna outside EC office

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• 08 Apr 2024, 11:13 PM

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• 08 Apr 2024, 09:28 PM

  'This is 100% dictatorship but we are from TMC, we will fight this...': TMC MP Derek O'Brien

   

  WATCH  Delhi: On being detained by Delhi Police for protesting outside Election Commission of India, TMC MP Derek O'Brien says "We are here to fight. We will carry on our peaceful protest...This is 100% dictatorship but we are from TMC, we will fight this..." pic.twitter.com/P27DJZgjEp

  — ANI (@ANI) April 8, 2024

   

  
• 08 Apr 2024, 07:32 PM

  TMC leaders, detained by Delhi Police for protesting outside EC office, brought to Mandir Marg Police Station in Delhi.

  
• 08 Apr 2024, 05:06 PM

  TMC leaders staging dharna outside EC office detained by Delhi Police

   

  WATCH  Delhi Police detain TMC leaders who were sitting on a protest outside the Election Commission of India office in Delhi. https://t.co/nCm2HWjarx pic.twitter.com/gLlVTIt6i5

  — ANI (@ANI) April 8, 2024

   

   

  
• 08 Apr 2024, 04:45 PM

  TMC delegation meets EC, demands chiefs of CBI, IT, NIA and ED be changed

  
• 08 Apr 2024, 04:45 PM

  National Conference, Congress to each contest 3 LS seats in J-K and Ladakh: NC leader Omar Abdullah

  
• 08 Apr 2024, 03:48 PM

  Congress moves EC against PM Modi's 'Muslim League' remark

  'We are deeply saddened by what the Prime Minister said in his speeches, especially regarding our manifesto. You can disagree with a party, you can criticise it, but to claim that a national-level party would include blatant lies in its manifesto is disheartening': Congress leader Salman Khurshid 

  
• 08 Apr 2024, 03:47 PM

  Former Union minister Birender Singh quits BJP, says he is joining Congress

  
• 08 Apr 2024, 03:05 PM

  'I ended the Congress' system of loot': PM Modi in Bastar, Chhattisgarh

   

   

  VIDEO  Lok Sabha Polls 2024: Here’s what PM Modi (@narendramodi) said while addressing a public meeting in Bastar, Chhattisgarh.
  
  “I ended the Congress' system of loot. The BJP government deposited Rs 34,00,000 crore directly into the bank accounts of beneficiaries. When the… pic.twitter.com/uYmxApQARf

  — Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) April 8, 2024

   

  
• 08 Apr 2024, 12:42 PM

  "I am a proud Hindu": Kangana Ranaut shuts down 'baseless' beef eating rumours

  
  
  Actor-turned-politician Kangana Ranaut clarified on Monday that she neither consumes beef nor any other kind of red meat, saying that she is a "proud Hindu".
  
  "I don't consume beef or any other kind of red meat, it is shameful that completely baseless rumours are being spread about me, I have been advocating and promoting yogic and Ayurvedic way of life for decades now such tactics won't work to tarnish my image. My people know me and they know that I am a proud Hindu and nothing can ever mislead them, Jai Shri Ram," Kangana said in a post on X on Monday.
  
  Kangana's post comes after 'rumours' spread online claiming that the actress eats beef. Some users on social media even dug out an old tweet of Kangana from 2019, in which she had written about her yogic lifestyle.
   

  
• 08 Apr 2024, 09:29 AM

  Rahul Gandhi to contest from Amethi?

  
  
  Congress sources have suggested the possibility of Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi contesting from the Amethi Lok Sabha seat, which he lost to the BJP's Smriti Irani in the 2019 elections. This would be in addition to the Wayanad seat.

  Sources within the Congress party have indicated that Rahul Gandhi may stand as the party's candidate in Amethi.

  These sources have hinted that Rahul Gandhi might file his nomination from the Amethi constituency after April 26, once the polling for the Wayanad seat is concluded. Currently, he is contesting from Wayanad where voting is scheduled for April 26.

  
• 08 Apr 2024, 11:14 AM

  Former UP DGP Vijay Kumar joins BJP

  #WATCH | Lucknow | Former UP DGP Vijay Kumar along with his wife joins the Bharatiya Janata party in the presence of Uttar Pradesh Deputy CM Brajesh Pathak
  
  Several leaders from Samajwadi Party and Congress have also joined the BJP today. pic.twitter.com/mFJ0VBxHUS

  — ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) April 8, 2024

  
• 08 Apr 2024, 11:10 AM

  BJP's Madhavi Latha Gets Y+ security

  Centre provided 'Y+' category security of CRPF to Madhavi Latha, Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Hyderabad Lok Sabha seat. She has been provided the security cover only for Telangana, reported ANI.

  
• 08 Apr 2024, 09:11 AM

  Union Minister and BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia's son Mahanarayaman Scindia on the plans to launch Madhya Pradesh Premier League in next 2-3 months:

  "We are going to make a league in Madhya Pradesh. There will be 5 teams. We aim to connect business, cricket and public. We aim transition of players from village to national level. Players will be getting employment. They will also be getting remuneration for playing games. It will be broadcasted on television."

  VIDEO | Here's what Union Minister and BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia's son Mahanarayaman Scindia said to PTI about the plans to launch Madhya Pradesh Premier League in next 2-3 months.
  
  "We are going to make a league in Madhya Pradesh. There will be 5 teams. We aim to connect… pic.twitter.com/hiAfP05UUm

  — Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) April 8, 2024

  
• 08 Apr 2024, 09:10 AM

  Ekhnath Shinde hits out at Uddhav Thackeray, says 'No boss or servant in our party'

  
  
  Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde hit out at his former party colleague Uddhav Thackeray, saying that despite holding the top job in the state, he performs all the duties of a party worker, as there is no concept of boss or servant in his faction of the Shiv Sena.
  
  "I am a CM, but I work as a worker even now. There is no boss or any servant in our party. We are all working in cooperation with each other," Shinde said while speaking at a public meeting in Nagpur on Sunday.
  
  In an attack on Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray over dynastic politics for favouring his son Aditya Thackeray, Shinde said, "(In our party) the king's son will not become the king. Only the one who works will become the king. Balasaheb Thackeray considered his colleagues as friends, but he (Uddhav) considered us as domestic servants."
  
  "A party or the state can never be run sitting at home," Shinde added.

  Earlier, the Maharashtra CM hit out at the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), saying that the opposition is "Teen Tigada Kaam Bigada," adding that the Mahayuti alliance comprising the BJP, Shiv Sena, and NCP is going to win all seats in Vidarbha."

  
• 08 Apr 2024, 09:05 AM

  A ten-member AITC delegation departs from the Kolkata airport for Delhi. They will meet the the full bench of the Election Commission in Delhi today.

  
• 08 Apr 2024, 08:49 AM

  'There is definitely a chance of success in Thoothukudi': Kanimozhi
  
  DMK MP Kanimozhi Karunanidhi and candidate from Thoothukudi Parliamentary constituency says, "There is definitely a chance of success in Thoothukudi... All these years, whenever the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) raised questions without answering, Kachchatheevu came to mind only when the opposition pointed to the Sino-Indian border issue during the elections..."

  
• 08 Apr 2024, 08:48 AM

  O Panneerselvam on filing nomination

  
  
  Former Tamil Nadu CM O Panneerselvam says, "Lok Sabha elections are going to be held in the first phase, in Tamil Nadu...I am contesting from the Ramanathapuram Parliamentary Constituency and five more people have filed their nominations in the name of O Panneerselvam to create confusion. But people support us."

   

  
• 08 Apr 2024, 07:20 AM

  Samajwadi Party's Gorakhpur LS candidate referred to Lucknow hospital

  
  
  Popular Bhojpuri actor and the Samajwadi Party candidate from Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur Lok Sabha constituency, Kajal Nishad, was rushed to a private hospital in Lucknow after her health deteriorated late on Sunday night.
  
  "She was experiencing some issues with her blood pressure and heart. We are taking her to Lucknow," Kajal's husband Sanjay Nishad told reporters here.
  
  She was admitted to a hospital in Gorakhpur after she fainted during a public event on Friday. Doctors found she was dehydrated. However, on Sunday, she complained of chest pain and her health deteriorated.
  
  Later, an ECG test revealed changes in her heart's rhythm. Dr Yasir Afzal, part of the team treating her, explained that the report indicated a heart attack, after which she was referred to Lucknow.
  
  She was taken to Lucknow in an ambulance accompanied by family and party members.
  
  The party has informed SP national president Akhilesh Yadav about her condition.
  
  Kajal Nishad, who is contesting for the Gorakhpur Sadar Lok Sabha seat, has been actively campaigning since receiving the ticket.

  
• 08 Apr 2024, 07:02 AM

  SP Lok Sabha candidate Kajal Nishad referred to Lucknow hospital following heart issue

   

  
• 08 Apr 2024, 06:32 AM

  Sirsa MLA and Haryana Lokhit Party President Gopal Kanda on alliance with BJP

  
  
  Fatehabad: Sirsa MLA and Haryana Lokhit Party President Gopal Kanda says, "... Our party-Haryana Lokhit Party is in support of the BJP... The victory in 2024 will be bigger than 2019..."