Lok Sabha Elections 2024 highlights: Campaigning ends for 6th phase, voting for 58 seats on May 25

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• 23 May 2024, 06:09 PM

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• 23 May 2024, 04:40 PM

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• 23 May 2024, 04:26 PM

  Ex-PM Deve Gowda warns grandson and Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna to return to India and face probe over sexual abuse allegations

  
• 23 May 2024, 04:23 PM

  'Why are you targeting my old and ailing parents': Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal to PM Modi

  "My mother is suffering from multiple ailments, father has hearing issues," he said. 

  
• 23 May 2024, 03:22 PM

  Congress candidate from Chandigarh, Manish Tewari says, "In last 10 years, NDA-BJP government has worked for one person only. The government we want to make will work for 140 crore people of the country. Rahul Gandhi's intention is that a government that works for all should be formed."

   

  WATCH Congress candidate from Chandigarh, Manish Tewari says, "In last 10 years, NDA-BJP government has worked for one person only. The government we want to make will work for 140 crore people of the country. Rahul Gandhi's intention is that a government that works for all… pic.twitter.com/IW5Niq2IlS

  — ANI (@ANI) May 23, 2024

   

  
• 23 May 2024, 03:19 PM

  PM Modi addresses a public gathering in Haryana's Bhiwani

  "The people of the country have already understood the intentions of the INDI alliance, that is why this is their condition. The drum of the INDI alliance has burst in just 5 phases and you must have seen that after the third phase, they started crying and whining... Why does the Election Commission do this? Why does the Election Commission do that?..," he said.

   

  WATCH  PM Narendra Modi in his address at a public gathering in Haryana's Bhiwani, says, "The people of the country have already understood the intentions of the INDI alliance, that is why this is their condition. The drum of the INDI alliance has burst in just 5 phases and you… pic.twitter.com/2uFBj6SaOe

  — ANI (@ANI) May 23, 2024

   

  
• 23 May 2024, 01:03 PM

  Delhi Police defers questioning of CM Kejriwal's parents in Maliwal assault case

  
  
  The Delhi Police may not visit Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's residence on Thursday to question his parents in connection with AAP Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal "assault" case, sources said.
  
  On Wednesday, Kejriwal had said police were going to question his elderly and ill parents the next day.
  
  Kejriwal's close aide Bibhav Kumar was arrested by police in the case.
  
  Sources said police may visit his residence for questioning in the coming days but are not going there on Thursday. They may also question Kejriwal in the coming days, sources said.
   

  
• 23 May 2024, 12:59 PM

  Election is fight to safeguard Constitution: Rahul Gandhi 

  Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday charged that the BJP always wanted to "tear and throw away" the Constitution, and asserted that the Lok Sabha elections this time is a fight to safeguard it.
  
  At an election meeting in northeast Delhi's Dilshad Garden in support of party candidate Kanhaiya Kumar, he claimed that the BJP always wanted to change the Constitution.
  
  "These people (BJP) have always wanted to tear and throw it (Constitution) away. They never accepted neither the Indian Constitution nor the Indian flag. In this election finally they have accepted that they want to change it," he charged.
  
  "In this election, the fight is for safeguarding the Indian Constitution. It is not simply a book, our Constitution carries thousands of years of ideological heritage of Gandhi, Ambedkar and Nehru ji," the Congress leader said.

  -PTI

  
• 23 May 2024, 12:14 PM

  BJP MP Jayant Sinha responds to party's notice, says "unjustly targeted, not invited for any event, rallies"

  
  
  After the Bharatiya Janata Party issued a show-cause notice to former Union Minister and MP Jayant Sinha asking him why he did not vote in the ongoing elections or participate in the campaigning, the latter responded said that he was "surprised" to receive the notice and was being "unjustly targeted".
  
  Sinha in his letter also clarified that he voted through the postal ballot process as he was overseas due to personal commitments.
   

  
• 23 May 2024, 06:43 AM

  BJP candidates from Delhi

  
  
  The BJP, which swept the 2019 polls in the national capital, dropped six of its seven MPs in Delhi this time, with actor turned politician Manoj Tiwari, the party's sitting MP from North-East Delhi, being the only one retained.

  The six new names in the BJP's list of candidates for the national capital were Praveen Khandelwal from Chandni Chowk, Harsh Deep Malhotra from East Delhi, Yogender Chandolia from North-West Delhi, Ramvir Singh Bhiduri from South Delhi, Kamaljeet Singh Sehrawat from West Delhi and Bansuri Swaraj, the daughter of late BJP veteran Sushma Swaraj from New Delhi.

  
• 23 May 2024, 06:41 AM

  INDIA Bloc candidates in Delhi

  
  
  In Delhi, the Arvind Kejriwal-led party is contesting East Delhi, West Delhi, South Delhi and New Delhi while the Congress has put up candidates in North-East Delhi, North-West Delhi and Chandni Chowk.

  The AAP candidates are Kuldeep Kumar from East Delhi, Sahiram Pehalwan from South Delhi, Mahabal Mishra from West Delhi and Somnath Bharti from New Delhi.While the Congress' Lok Sabha picks in the national capital include Udit Raj from North-West Delhi (reserved SC seat), Jai Prakash Agarwal from Chandni Chowk and former JNU Student's Union President Kanhaiya Kumar from North-East Delhi.