Lok Sabha polls 2024: Ajit Pawar's wife Sunetra Pawar to contest against Supriya Sule from Baramati

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• 30 Mar 2024, 09:17 PM

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• 30 Mar 2024, 09:14 PM

  BJP names 11 more Lok Sabha candidates, fields ex-ambassador Taranjit Singh Sandhu from Amritsar

  The party has so far announced its candidates for 411 seats.

  भारतीय जनता पार्टी की केन्द्रीय चुनाव समिति ने आगामी लोकसभा चुनाव के लिए 8वीं सूची में निम्नलिखित नामों पर अपनी स्वीकृति प्रदान की pic.twitter.com/TrHp1SEdnK

  — BJP (@BJP4India) March 30, 2024

   

  
• 30 Mar 2024, 08:06 PM

  Sharad Pawar's NCP announces 5 candidates for Lok Sabha elections, fields Supriya Sule from Baramati

  She will contest against Ajit Pawar's wife Sunetra Pawar on the seat

  
• 30 Mar 2024, 05:37 PM

  Lok Janshakti Party (Ramvilas) releases list of 5 candidates

  Party chief Chirag Paswan to contest from Hajipur.

   

  लोक जनशक्ति पार्टी (रामविलास) के द्वारा लोकसभा चुनाव - 2024 के लिए निम्न प्रत्याशियों के नामों पर अपनी सहमति प्रदान की है @iChiragPaswan @ANI pic.twitter.com/XZTZsuUU3L

  — Lok Janshakti Party (@LJP4India) March 30, 2024

   

  
• 30 Mar 2024, 04:06 PM

  BJP announces 27-member manifesto committee, Rajnath Singh to head panel

  Other members are -- Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman serving as the convenor, Piyush Goyal as co-convenor.

   

  
  
  BJP National President Shri JP Nadda has announced Election Manifesto Committee for the Lok Sabha Elections - 2024. pic.twitter.com/KMrBpqkQQF

  — BJP (@BJP4India) March 30, 2024

   

  
• 30 Mar 2024, 01:37 PM

  After days of intense debate over the Kolar parliamentary seat in Karnataka, the All India Congress Committee (AICC) on Saturday finally announced KV Gowtham as its candidate for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. "The Central Election Committee has approved the candidature of Shri K.V. Gowtham as Congress candidate to contest the ensuing general elections to the Lok Sabha from the 28-Kolar SC Parliamentary constituency of Karnataka," read the official statement.

  (With ANI inputs)

  
• 30 Mar 2024, 01:08 PM

  The daughter-in-law of senior Congress leader and former Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil, Archana Patil Chakurkar, joined the BJP in Mumbai on Saturday.

  
• 30 Mar 2024, 11:37 AM

  Tamil Nadu CM M K Stalin has taken a dig at BJP's Nirmala Sitharaman for withdrawing her name as a candidate for the upcoming Lok Sabha election 2024. PTI quoted him as saying, "Madam, if you want to contest the polls, you should meet the people and should toil hard for people's welfare. Since you know the result that the people will not vote for you, you have decided not to contest."

  
• 30 Mar 2024, 11:35 AM

  Union Minister Nitin Gadkari campaigned in the Nagpur Lok Sabha constituency on Saturday. He is the BJP's candidate from the seat.

  
• 30 Mar 2024, 10:37 AM

  Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra slammed the BJP-led Centre on Saturday over its proposal to borrow more than Rs 14 lakh crore, asking why is the government ''drowning the people in debt'' when instead of relief being provided to them, the ''burden of unemployment, inflation and economic crisis'' is increasing.

  In her budget speech last month, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman proposed to borrow Rs 14.13 lakh crore by issuing dated securities to meet a revenue shortfall in the next financial year starting April 1.

  In a post in Hindi on X, Priyanka Gandhi said, ''The finance ministry stated that the government is going to borrow more than Rs 14 lakh crore in the current financial year. Why? In the 67 years since independence till 2014, the country's total debt was Rs 55 lakh crore, the Congress general secretary said while pointing out that in the last 10 years, the Narendra Modi government increased it to Rs 205 lakh crore."

  
• 30 Mar 2024, 09:10 AM

  The Election Commission of India (ECI) and the Delhi Police have permitted the INDIA bloc to hold a rally at the Ramlila Maidan in Delhi to voice the opposition alliance’s protest against the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal by the ED in the excise policy case. Scheduled for March 31, the rally’s theme is ‘Tanasahi Hatao, Loktantra Bachao’ (remove dictatorship, save democracy).

  
• 30 Mar 2024, 08:54 AM

  Ahead of the Lok Sabha poll, Union Home Minister Amit Shah will visit Assam on April 6, said Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.

  "Union Home Minister Amit Shah will visit Assam on April 6. We have also discussed with New Delhi, the programme of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. We will come to know the details of the Prime Minister's Assam visit tomorrow or the day after tomorrow," the Assam CM said on Friday.

  Union Home Minister will address two election rallies in Lakhimpur and Hojai, which are under the Kaziranga parliamentary constituency. Talking about the BJP's election campaign in the state, the Assam Chief Minister said that, the Lok Sabha election in Assam will be held in three phases and the BJP's candidates have already launched their election campaign.

  
• 30 Mar 2024, 07:42 AM

  The BJP has filed a complaint with EC against Congress leader and Karnataka CM's son, Yatindra Siddaramaiah for his alleged derogatory remark against Union Home Minister Amit Shah and PM Narendra Modi.

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• 30 Mar 2024, 07:34 AM

  Congress is likely to announce its manifesto for the Lok Sabha elections at the AICC headquarters on April 5, sources said on Friday. According to party sources, right after the release of the manifesto, two massive rallies will take place in Jaipur and Hyderabad on April 6.

  The party sources mentioned that Sonia Gandhi will likely be present at the Jaipur rally. Earlier, Rajasthan Congress chief Govind Singh Dotasara said that the manifesto would be announced in Jaipur on April 6. 

  (With ANI inputs)