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India Politics Highlights: I.N.D.I.A. bloc may not get absolute majority, but NDA won't either to form govt, says SiddaramaiahKarnataka CM earlier today commented that despite NDA's '400 paar' slogans, they won't be able to get majority in the Lok Sabha polls. MK Stalin and Rahul Gandhi earlier addressed a joint rally in Coimbatore where the two leaders attacked the BJP over language imposition, electoral bonds and corruption among other topics. PM Modi earlier today attacked the opposition leaders for eating mutton and fish during the month of 'sawan' and said they are hurting sentiments. RJD leader Tejashwi, however hit back at the PM, saying he should instead speak on jobs and inflation rather than doing 'idhar udhar ki baat'. The saffron party's Mandi candidate Kangana Ranaut is heavily relying on the 'Hindu Rashtra' pitch for her campaign. That's all for today, we will be back tomorrow with more updates on the political front as we await the mega Lok sabha polls. Thank you and goodnight!
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Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah

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Lok Sabha polls 2024: Uneasy calm still grips 'buffer zone' in Manipur

Churachandpur/Moreh: The tricolour flutters at several places along the 15-km stretch of NH-105, between Pangal (Meitei Muslim)-dominated Kwakta and Kuki-dominated Churachandpur, where the Meitei-Kuki conflict broke out on May 3 last year. Remnants of burnt houses, shops and vehicles line the highway.

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This is the "buffer zone" between the Meitei-dominated Bishnupur district and Churachandpur, manned mainly by the central security forces.

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In I.N.D.I.A. bloc's safe southern fort, BJP attempts a breach

What has always been a bipolar contest between the two Dravidian majors DMK and AIADMK is turning into a triangular fight in Tamil Nadu with the BJP cobbling up a rainbow coalition as it makes a concerted effort to breach the southern fortress. 

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Election Commission is partial, says TMC MP Shantanu Sen

"For the first time, after independence, the Prime Minister along with his Minister selected the election commissioners... The entire country knows which party breaks law & order and follows the way of hooliganism," Sen said to news agency ANI.

Constitution does not provide for such laws to be brought in: G Parameshwara on UCC

The possibility of a Uniform Civil Code throughout the country has been played around with for quite some time, with Uttarakhand being the first state to bring in this law. While the BJP believes this will ensure everyone is subject to the same set of civil laws, the Opposition are of the opinion that this might destroy the secular fabric of the country.

Of the corruption cases probed by the Enforcement Directorate, only three per cent have people associated with politics: PM Modi

The prime minister, in an interview with Hindi daily Hindustan, said that people crying foul about the ED targetting BJP's political opponents are "those who see benefits in a corrupt system".

"Even the opposition believes that the NDA government will return to power, which is why several opposition leaders are shying away from poll campaign. Many people have started blaming EVMs (electronic voting machines) even before the polls have begun," he further added. - PTI

Former Karnataka Dy CM and rebel BJP leader K S Eshwarappa says he will file nomination today from Shivamogga constituency

Conspiracy to impose President's rule in Delhi; imposing it will be illegal, against mandate of people: AAP leader Atishi

The Delhi minister further said that no senior IAS officer is being posted in Delhi, and bureaucrats have stopped attending govt meetings citing MCC.

Jairam Ramesh poses questions for PM Modi ahead of latter's visit to J&K today

The Congress spokesperson has slammed the Centre for not holding assembly as well as local body elections in J&K. He has also asked when it will be the "appropriate" time, as per Amit Shah's speech in Parliament, and also enquired about the development that the Modi govt has promised for the erstwhile state. Check out his tweet right here:

Oppn used Article 370 for their own benefit: PM Modi 

In 2014, I had come back after visiting Mata Vaishno Devi and on this very ground, I had guaranteed you that I will free you from whatever several generations of Jammu and Kashmir have suffered. Today, with your blessings, Modi has fulfilled that guarantee, the Prime Minister says at J&K's Udhampur

Ask the mothers and daughters of Jammu and Kashmir how they are benefitting from the scrapping of Article 370: Modi

I gave a guarantee that the poor would not have to worry about two meals a day. Today lakhs of families of Jammu and Kashmir have the guarantee of free ration for the next 5 years...: Modi in BJP

'Yours dreams are my convictions', says Modi in Gujarat

Will work 24*7 for Viksit Bharat by 2047, Modi further said during his speech at a public meeting in support of Dharmendra Pradhan.

There has been so much development that people are asking me to relax: PM

Whatever has happened for J&K till now is just a trailer. I am trying to create a new Jammu and Kashmir: Modi

Time is not far when J&K will have assembly elections, he further added. Modi carried on, "Congress, National Conference, PDP and all other parties want to take Jammu and Kashmir back to those old days. No one has caused as much damage to Jammu and Kashmir as these family-run parties have done. Here political party means of the family, by the family and for the family..."

Ram mandir has never been an election agenda. It is a 500-year-old battle: Modi

Indians had fought to preserve their temples when foreign forces started ruling the country.

What electoral game made you reject the invitation to the Ram mandir consecration? Modi asks Oppn from Udhampur

'Why did you post a video of eating non-veg food on Navratri?': Modi slams Tejashwi Yadav without naming latter

Rebel BJP leader K S Eshwarappa holds road show ahead of filing nomination for LS polls from Shivamogga

Hands of law have started moving, says WB Guv Bose on Rameshwaram blast suspects caught in Kolkata

They said that I had eaten beef, I asked for proof, but then they stated we don't have anything to do with that: Kangana Ranaut

Actor Kangana Ranaut, who is contesting the Lok Sabha elections from HP's Mandi, said that the opposition had accused her of eating beef, but when she asked for proof, they said 'we don't have anything to do with that'.

Ranaut further added, "They also claimed that I am impure and don't have character, but when I showed them my character then they said you should speak on the primary issues..."

TMC has become 'Terror Mafia and Corruption Bachao', says BJP's Shehzad Poonawalla after Rameshwaram blast suspects' arrest in Kolkata

Those claiming they will win 400 seats are so scared that they have put elected CMs behind bars: Akhilesh Yadav

“Someone new has come (BJP candidate Jitin Prasada) who is saying if he would have known earlier that he would be nominated from Pilibhit then he would have turned it into Mumbai. Mumbai is known as the financial capital of the country. BJP has spent more than 40 crore rupees to make UP roads potholes-free but did that happen?” the former UP minister further asked in the election rally.

The Rajasthan whose people watered the country with their blood, that Rajasthan was kept thirsty for water by the Congress.: PM Modi in Barmen

Congress indulged in massive corruption in Jal Jeevan Mission, did not allow ERCP project, says PM in Barmer

They (Cong) deliberately kept the border districts and villages deprived of development, the PM further added, continuing that the BJP government is building roads and highways till the last border of the country.

Even if Babasaheb comes back, he will not be able to harm the Constitution: Modi

I.N.D.I.A. partners want to destroy nation's nuclear power, says PM Modi from Rajasthan

We worship 'Shakti' but shehzada of Congress wants to destroy it, says Modi

Modi promised to fulfill guarantees but did nothing, says Kharge at Kalaburagi 

Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge slammed PM Modi for not fulfilling his guarantees for youth, farmers. "Modi said he will bring back black money, deposit Rs 15 lakh in everyone's accounts, jobs for 2 crore people but nothing came out of it."

We should not have any existence of our own, we all are Narendra Modi, says Kangana

BJP's Mandi candidate Kangana Ranaut went all out during her campaign in Himachal Pradesh as she invoked Sanatan Dharma and Lord Ram during her speech. " PM Modi has ignited the spark of Hinduism, Hindu Rashtra and Sanatan Dharma in us and now it has turned into a blaze. We all should strive towards it and we all should not have any existence of our own, we all are Narendra Modi," Ranaut said.

Ideological battle raging in India between Periyar's ideas & Modi's, says Rahul at TN rally

Rahul Gandhi is addressing a rally in Tamil Nadu's Tirunelveli where he spoke about how Narendra Modi's govt has been trying to divide the country." Battle is between ideas of Periyar, social justice, equality and that of RSS, PM Modi and his govt. There can be no India without Tamil, Bengali and other languages our people speak; that is the fight all about," Gandhi said.

PM Modi holds road show in Rajasthan's Dausa with party candidate Kanhaiya Lal Meena and state minister Kirodi Lal Meena

Rahul promises govt jobs to youths in Tamil Nadu, says 30 lakh govt seats lying vacant

Preparations underway for Rahul Gandhi and Tamil Nadu CM  MK Stalin's public meeting

PM should comment on jobs & inflation instead of doing whataboutery, Tejashwi on Modi's mutton remark

Former Bihar Deputy CM & RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav reacted to PM Modi commenting on his fish eating video and Rahul and Lalu's video on cooking mutton. He said, "I have been speaking about jobs, about employment, about inflation for long. He doesn't give an account for that. PM can say anything he wants but public wants to hear what he did for the people of Bihar. 'Idhar udhar ki baat na karein, muddey ki baat karein Pradhanmantri,' Yadav said.

AAP's Sanjay Singh meets with Akhilesh Yadav, pledges full support to Samajwadi Party in UP 

Stalin addresses crowd at DMK-Congress joint rally in Coimbatore, Rahul and other leaders present on the dais. 

Congress party's manifesto is the 'election hero', Chief Minister M K Stalin says at poll rally in Tamil Nadu

Congress manifesto reflects social justice championed by DMK: CM Stalin at poll rally in Tamil Nadu

Modi govt should be called Adani govt, says Rahul at Coimbatore rally

Be it airport, highway, any infra project; somehow Govt of India just gives it to Adani. Modi govt actually is "Adani govt, it should be called Adani govt and not Modi govt," Rahul Gandhi said.

I.N.D.I.A. bloc may not get absolute majority, but NDA won't either to form govt, says Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah

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