Lok Sabha Polls 2024 LIVE: Congress holds CEC meet, finalises candidates for 12 seats in Bengal

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• 21 Mar 2024, 09:24 PM

  
• 19 Mar 2024, 09:46 PM

  Congress holds CEC meet, finalises candidates for 12 seats in Bengal

  Congress held CEC meeting on Tuesday and finalised candidates for 12 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal.

  
• 19 Mar 2024, 05:54 PM

  Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE:

   

  The Supreme Court has asked the Ajit Pawar faction to issue a public notice that its use of the 'clock' symbol is subject to the final outcome of the appeal pending before the apex court.

  
• 19 Mar 2024, 04:13 PM

  Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE: SC asks EC to use Sharad Pawar bloc to use party symbol 'man blowing turha'

  The Supreme Court asks the Election Commission of India to recognise the Sharad Pawar faction of NCP - 'Nationalist Congress Party – Sharad Chandra Pawar' name and 'man blowing turha' symbol for Lok Sabha and Assembly polls.

  According to ANI, SC has asked to reserve the ‘man blowing turha’ symbol for the Sharad Pawar bloc and says it should not allot the symbol to any other party or candidate.

   

  
• 19 Mar 2024, 04:00 PM

  Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE:

  Hemant Soren’s sister-in-law, Sita Soren joins the BJP after quitting Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM).

   

  
• 19 Mar 2024, 02:28 PM

  Gujarat Congress leader Rohan Gupta withdraws his candidacy from Ahmedabad East Lok Sabha seat

  "I fulfilled all responsibilities given to me by the party in the last 15 years. Even before my candidature was announced, I had begun planning how to contest the elections well. I was never overconfident about winning. It was a difficult decision to drop my candidature. It was my personal decision due to my father's health condition, not a political one," he said, according to ANI.

  
• 19 Mar 2024, 02:22 PM

  Sita Soren joins BJP 

  Former Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren's sister-in-law and JMM MLA Sita Soren joined BJP at the party headquarters on Tuesday, reported PTI.

  
• 19 Mar 2024, 02:00 PM

  PM Modi turns emotional in Tamil Nadu's Salem

  #WATCH | Tamil Nadu: Prime Minister Narendra Modi gets emotional as he remembers Former State BJP president late K.N. Lakshmanan & his contribution towards the expansion of BJP in the state. pic.twitter.com/7ZN4m3MbQx

  — ANI (@ANI) March 19, 2024

  
• 19 Mar 2024, 01:55 PM

  'We are in discussion with Congress': Former J&K CM Omar Abdullah on his party's candidate list for LS Polls

  VIDEO | Here's what former Jammu and Kashmir CM and JKNC leader Omar Abdullah (@OmarAbdullah) said when asked about party's candidate list for Lok Sabha election.
  
  "Let other parties announce their candidates first. We are in discussion with the Congress. They haven't announced… pic.twitter.com/ObpRqYvCdX

  — Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) March 19, 2024

  
• 19 Mar 2024, 01:47 PM

  Sita Soren to join BJP

  JMM MLA and sister-in-law of former Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren had earlier resigned from all party posts, and is likely to join BJP, reported ANI.

  
• 19 Mar 2024, 01:45 PM

  Raj Thackeray meets Union Home Minister Amit Shah

  MNS chief Raj Thackeray meets Union Home Minister Amit Shah, in Delhi. pic.twitter.com/EQK5pF2rTD

  — ANI (@ANI) March 19, 2024

  
• 19 Mar 2024, 01:16 PM

  Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge takes dig at PM Modi's guarantees

  Asserting that the country is seeking a change, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday said the 'guarantees' touted by the present government would meet the same fate as the 'India Shining' slogan of 2004.

  Addressing the meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), the party's top decision-making body, to discuss and approve the party's manifesto for the Lok Sabha elections, he urged all party leaders and workers to take every issue raised in the party manifesto to every village and town and to every household across the country.

  "The country is fervently demanding a change. The guarantees currently being touted by the present government would have the same fate as that of the 'India Shining' slogan of 2004," he said in his address at the CWC meet. 

  -PTI

   

  
• 19 Mar 2024, 11:50 AM

  PM Modi receives warm welcome in Salem

  #WATCH | Tamil Nadu: Prime Minister Narendra Modi receives a warm welcome at his public meeting at Gajjalnaickenpatti in Salem. pic.twitter.com/4y8ZN1um0R

  — ANI (@ANI) March 19, 2024

  
• 19 Mar 2024, 11:49 AM

  Pashupati Paras resigns as Union Minister

  He said, "Injustice has been done with us and our party. Therefore, I resign from the post of Union Minister."

  #WATCH | RLJP President Pashupati Kumar Paras says, "Yesterday, the NDA alliance announced the list of 40 candidates for Bihar Lok Sabha...Our party had five MPs & I worked with utmost sincerity...Injustice has been done with us & our party. Therefore, I resign from the post of… pic.twitter.com/XAeMoDpjdV

  — ANI (@ANI) March 19, 2024

  
• 19 Mar 2024, 11:15 AM

  PM Modi holds roadshow in Kerala's Palakkad

  PM Shri @narendramodi's massive roadshow in Palakkad, Kerala. https://t.co/v6XhSyslbm

  — BJP (@BJP4India) March 19, 2024

  
• 19 Mar 2024, 09:55 AM

  CWC meeting begins at AICC headquarters

  #WATCH | The Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting begins at the AICC headquarters in Delhi in the presence of party president Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, MP Rahul Gandhi and other Congress leaders. pic.twitter.com/I3JjHdONS2

  — ANI (@ANI) March 19, 2024

  
• 19 Mar 2024, 09:30 AM

  Jairam Ramesh arrives at AICC headquarters in Delhi

  #WATCH | Congress General Secretary in-charge Communications Jairam Ramesh arrives at the AICC headquarters in Delhi to attend the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting. pic.twitter.com/5chNUJEZPI

  — ANI (@ANI) March 19, 2024

  
• 19 Mar 2024, 08:09 AM

  BJP-PMK join hands in Tamil Nadu

  Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) announced on Tuesday its alliance with the BJP in Tamil Nadu for Lok Sabha elections 2024.

  
• 19 Mar 2024, 08:07 AM

  Congress Working Committee to meet today

  The Congress Working Committee (CWC) is slated to meet on Tuesday to discuss the party's manifesto for the Lok Sabha polls that are scheduled to be held in seven phases beginning from April 19. The party's top decision making body is also expected to pass a resolution lauding former party chief Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, which started from Manipur on January 14 and ended in Mumbai on March 17.

  The Congress' Central Election Committee (CEC) chaired by party chief Mallikarjun Kharge is also likely to meet to finalise the remaining candidates of the party for the seven-phase polls beginning April 19.

  -ANI