Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Highlights: If their atom bomb is to throw, then ours is not to keep in fridge, says UP CM Yogi on Mani Shankar Aiyar's Pak remark

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It is May 14, Tuesday. Let's bring you up to speed

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Nearly 68% polling in Phase 4 amid sporadic incidents of violence, EVM malfunctioning

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: BJP's Madhavi Latha asks to see Muslim women's faces in Telangana poll booth; case registered

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: 39% voter voting by displaced Kashmiri Pandits in Srinagar, higher than 2019

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: 'Will make Pakistan wear bangles,' says PM Modi; claims I.N.D.I.A. leaders scared of neighbour's nuclear powers

The Tuesday Interview

Union minister Anurag Thakur is pursuing a fifth term from the Hamirpur Lok Sabha constituency in Himachal Pradesh, even as by-elections in six seats of the state assembly draw near. Campaigning in the seat with a roadshow that saw the presence of his father, former CM and BJP veteran P K Dhumal, Thakur asks for votes because of the work that he has done in the region. In an interview with DH’s Amrita Madhukalya, Thakur talks about Kejriwal, the Muslim reservation issue, and predicts that the BJP will cross 400.

Read the DH's The Tuesday Interview here.

Ahead of his Lok Sabha nomination today, PM Modi visits Varanasi Dashashwamedh ghat, will take a dip in Ganges

Amit Shah, JP Nadda, Hardeep Singh Puri, Rajnath Singh and other NDA leaders arrive at DM office in Varanasi, ahead of PM Modi's nomination

AAP leader Saurabh Bharadwaj launches 'washing machine' campaign against the BJP

Congress candidate from Chandigarh seat Manish Tewari holds a roadshow

Will be filing his nomination today from the constituency.

'Nautankai master Lalu Yadav deceived people' says Giriraj Singh

Narendra Modi to file nomination from Varanasi seat shortly

BJP candidate from Himachal Pradesh's Mandi Kangana Ranaut holds a roadshow

Will be filing her nomination for the Mandi constituency later in the day.

BJP councillors in MCD House raise slogans against Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal

The slogans were raised on the issue of their demand for appointment of a 'Dalit' mayor and Swati Maliwal's recent issue. House adjourned following the ruckus.

Jairam Ramesh slams PM Modi for ignoring farmers, youth, women and labours, said he knows 'they are upset'

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi holds a public address in UP's Amethi

Congress candidate from Chandigarh Lok Sabha seat Manish Tewari files his nomination

BJP candidate from Mandi Lok Sabha constituency, Kangana Ranaut files her nomination

Kangna Ranaut 

JD(S) leader H D Revanna released from Parappana Agrahara Jail after he was granted conditional bail by a special court of people's representatives

Election Commission releases second report on two months of enforcement of MCC

In the last two months, the Election Commission of India has disposed of 90 per cent of 425 complaints. Commission satisfied that overall in the last two months, the campaign space has been violence-free, less noisy, less cluttered and intrusive, free of inducement and ostentatiousness.

As a measure of enhanced transparency and disclosure, the Election Commission of India suo-motu released a second report on two months of enforcement of MCC during GE 2024. The first report was released on April 16, 2024.

via ANI

People of Jhansi preparing for BJP's 'vidai ki jhanki', says Akhilesh Yadav

Addressing a joint rally with Congress in UP's Jhansi, Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav says, "Four phases of elections are over and BJP's graph is falling. The people of Jhansi are preparing for BJP's 'vidai ki jhanki'. Those who were talking about doubling farmers' incomes, under their govt farmers are now in trouble..."

Delhi CM and AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal holds roadshow in Kurukshetra, Haryana

This fight is to save the Constitution, I.N.D.I.A. bloc, Akhilesh, Kharge and I are protecting this: Rahul Gandhi in UP

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi says, " This fight, this election is to save the Constitution...without this (Constitution) poor people of India won't belong anywhere. The day this (Constitution) is gone, your land rights, reservation, public sector everything will be gone. INDIA alliance, Akhilesh Yadav, Kharge and I are protecting this Constitution..."

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge will campaign in Raebareli-Amethi tomorrow

All of you will get citizenship and will be able to live with respect: Amit Shah to Matua community in Bengal's Bongaon

If you push Lotus button, will go to jail and if you push Broom, I'll not have to go jail again, says Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal

This is not an India that seeks but an India that provides: BJP national president JP Nadda in Amethi

If their atom bomb is to throw, then ours is not to keep in fridge, says UP CM Yogi Adityanath on Mani Shankar Aiyar's Pak remark

Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath says, "On one side there is our government which is working for the poor and on the other hand there is SP and Congress government, who oppose lord Ram and support Pakistan. They say don't oppose Pakistan because they have atom bomb. If they have atom bomb we too have it. If their atom bomb is to throw, then ours is not to keep in fridge. They are supporting Pakistan, these people are not even ashamed of this..."

Congress leaders talk about sending Ram Lala back to tent: PM Modi at rally in Jharkhand's Giridih

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday attacked the Congress, accusing it of indulging in "shameful" politics and plotting to send "Ram Lala to tent" again.

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Watch PM Modi's roadshow in Koderma, Jharkhand

A clash broke out between YSRCP And TDP leaders at Padmavati Women's University strong room, in Tirupati

'She is insulting Sanatani Hindus': Mamata's offer to cook food for PM Modi stirs controversy

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's offer to "cook food" for Prime Minister Narendra Modi elicited mixed responses from different political parties, with the BJP terming it a "political agenda" and the CPI(M) dubbing it as an "understanding" between the TMC and the saffron party.

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Getting 'full support' from Nitish, says Tejashwi at rally in Bihar

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Tuesday claimed that he was getting "full support" from "uncle" Nitish Kumar, the JD(U) president who is a BJP ally, in his fight against the saffron party.

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