India Politics Highlights: I.N.D.I.A. works for own selfishness and its family, says PM Modi in Goa

Lok Sabha Polls 2024 | BJP firm on decision to scrap Muslim quota: Bommai

Former Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai said on Friday that the BJP was firm on its decision to scrap the 4% quota to Muslims and that the quota ball is now in Congress’ court.

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Lok Sabha Polls 2024 | Congress banks on guarantee wave, clean image of nominee to wrest ‘rice bowl’ Raichur from BJP

Known for its history of lost opportunities, Raichur - the land of rice, gold, cotton and electricity — is desperate for a leader with a vision. This feeling is palpable across the region.

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Lok Sabha Elections 2024: On manifestos, defections & his political future | An interview with Shivraj Singh Chouhan

Shivraj Singh Chouhan speaks to DH’s Amrita Madhukalya about his political future, about the war of manifestoes between BJP and Congress, and why the doors of BJP are 'open for all'.

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UCC next policy milestone for BJP, says Assam minister

YSRCP MP Vijaysai Reddy drove an auto yesterday while campaigning for the elections in his constituency Nellore

RECAP | People heading to the polling booths to cast their votes for the second phase of the Lok Sabha Polls in Darrang district in Assam

Here at the major political events on the calendar today:

NCR

CM Arvind Kejriwal's wife Sunita Kejriwal to hold roadshow in East Delhi

Aam Aadmi Party press conference

NORTH

UP CM Yogi Adityanath campaigns in Hathras, Firozabad, Auraiya

SP leader Akhilesh Yadav campaigns in Kannauj

SOUTH

Kerala: Congress leader K C Venugopal press conference

EAST AND NORTHEAST

Assam: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's press conference and poll rally

West Bengal: CM Mamata Banerjee's poll rallies

WEST

PM Narendra Modi rallies in Kolhapur and Goa

Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Rajkot Bharuch Panchmahal and Vadodara

Priyanka Gandhi in Valsad in Gujarat and Udgir in Maharashtra

AAP war room inaugurated

AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan reaches party office after being granted bail

Several people from the Sikh community in Delhi joined the BJP party

AAP holds demonstration at East Delhi against Arvind Kejriwal's arrest

AAP workers held a demonstration at Laxmi Nagar here against the arrest of party supremo and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, ahead of his wife Sunita Kejriwal's maiden Lok Sabha poll roadshow in East Delhi on Saturday.

The demonstration was organised near a foot-over bridge in the East Delhi area as part of the Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) "Jail Ka Jawab Vote Se" campaign

Congress accuses CPI(M) of hijacking poll machinery to bring down polling percentage

 A day after polling concluded for the 20 Lok Sabha seats in Kerala, the Congress on Saturday alleged that voters were harassed and the election machinery was hijacked by the ruling CPI(M) in the state with an aim to bring down the turnout percentage. AICC general secretary K C Venugopal said the alleged hijacking of the election machinery by the ruling CPI(M) was one of the reasons for the decrease in polling percentage this year as compared to the turnout in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

During the third term of Narendra Modi-led govt, our economy will be brought to third spot in the world: Amit Shah at poll rally in Gujarat

BJP wants to weaken the democracy and people of the nation: Priyanka Gandhi

"You must have seen, the BJP leaders have said that they want to change the Constitution and PM Modi contradicts that statement... This is a dangerous thing. This constitution has given you all the rights, then what's the need to change it. They want to weaken the democracy and people of the nation...," said Congress National General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra while addressing a public meeting in Valsad.

Mallikarjun Kharge addresses press in Assam

Yogi Adityanath addresses rally in Hathras

Kharge asks at press conference where is the Congress specifically helping Muslims. These schemes are for everyone, think before you speak, Kharge slams BJP as he accuses them of trying to divide the country

'Think before you speak,' says Kharge accusing BJP of trying to divide the country

Congress leader Mohammed Arif Naseem Khan resigns as star campaigner of party

"I will meet the party leadership and high command in person and tell them about it. Congress has had an ideology. Be it Lok Sabha elections, Vidhan Sabha elections or the formation of government, Congress has always had the policy to have representation from every caste and community...MVA is contesting 48 seats in Maharashtra in these Lok Sabha elections and nobody from the minority community has been made a candidate for any of these seats. So, people of the community are hurt. So, people have been questioning me over the past two days that why did Congress not field even one...I am hurt too...What was the compulsion?...," he said.

Rahul Gandhi said that if Article 370 is removed, rivers of blood will flow in Kashmir. But, not even a single stone has been thrown in five years: Amit Shah in Gujarat

Union Home Minister Amit Shah.

"Kashmir is ours, but Congress' people and (Mallikarjun) Kharge are saying that what do Gujarat and Rajasthan have to do with Kashmir. Rahul Gandhi said that if Article 370 is removed, rivers of blood will flow in Kashmir. But, not even a single stone has been thrown in five years... There used to be bomb blasts during the Congress government. But, after the Uri and Pulwama attacks, PM Narendra Modi ended terrorism with surgical strike and air strike. PM Modi took the Indian economy from 11th to 5th place in ten years."

Special PMLA Court, Ranchi has refuses to grant interim bail to former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, in a land scam case

YSRCP chief Jagan Mohan Reddy releases manifesto for upcoming polls in Andhra Pradesh

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal files his response on the ED’s affidavit in the Supreme Court, and says that the mode, manner, and timing of his arrest just before when the schedule of the Lok Sabha elections had been announced and the Model Code of Conduct had come into play, speaks volumes about the arbitrariness of the ED.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge addresses the public in Assam's Barpeta

He said, "These people (BJP) advertise that PM Modi is the only one who was born to help the poor. In a country where rice and wheat weren't enough produced and we had to import from America, today we are producing the amount of wheat, rice and pulses that are sufficient for the people of the country to have their meals. This is all because of Congress, Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, and Indira Gandhi who brought the Green Revolution and White Revolution to the country. In a country where not even a needle used to be manufactured, if someone dared to launch rockets, it was Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru and Indira Gandhi."

PM Modi's 'factory of lies' won't work forever, says Kharge on BJP's allegations about Congress manifesto

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'If a cracker bursts somewhere, Pakistan clarifies out of fear': Yogi Adityanath

Yogi Adityanath

Addressing a public rally in Auraiya, Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath said, "The stature of India has grown in the world. Borders have become safe, terrorism and Naxalism have been eliminated and now even if a cracker bursts somewhere, Pakistan clarifies that there is no hand of mine (Pakistan) in that incident as it knows it's a new India 'agar samay se safai nahi di to swayam saaf ho jayega' and that's why Pakistan clarifies out of fear."

Re-polling for one polling station in Hanur Assembly Constituency of Chamrajnagar Parliamentary Constituency on April 29

The decision was taken after a polling booth was vandalised in Indiganatta village of Chamarajanagar Lok Sabha constituency by the villagers who had boycotted voting.

Delhi CM's wife Sunita Kejriwal holds Lok Sabha poll roadshow for AAP candidate in East Delhi constituency

Congress' next agenda is to reinstate Article 370 in Kashmir, says PM Modi in Maharashtra's Kolhapur

"When the Congress and its friends realised that they cannot compete with NDA's track record of development, they changed their strategy. They are using anti-national agendas and appeasement. Now, congress' agenda is that they will reinstate Article 370 in Kashmir," said PM Mosi in a rally in Maharashtra's Kolhapur.

DMK leaders call Sanatan 'dengue and malaria' but I.N.D.I.A. bloc honours them, says PM Modi in Kolhapur

Amit Shah conducts a roadshow in Gujarat's Vadodara

PM Modi hell-bent on 'revenge' after Karnataka 'rejected' him in assembly polls, says Congress

The Congress on Saturday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been hell-bent on taking 'revenge' on the people of Karnataka since they 'decisively rejected' him in the 2023 assembly elections.

The opposition party's attack came after the Centre approved about Rs 3,499 crore as drought relief to Karnataka following the state government taking the matter to the Supreme Court.

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Congress CEC meeting under way: K C Venugopal, Partap Singh Bajwa and Amrinder Singh Raja Warring reach the AICC headquarters

I.N.D.I.A. works for own selfishness and its family, says PM Modi in Goa

"The 2024 (Lok Sabha) elections is a contest between two sides. On one side, there is the NDA which is working for the aspirations of the people of the nation. On the other hand, there is the INDI alliance which is working for its own selfishness and its family," said PM Modi in Goa.

You will have five PMs in 5 years if Congress-led I.N.D.I.A. bloc wins polls, says Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday targeted the Congress-led I.N.D.I.A. alliance, saying it is mulling to have five prime ministers in five years if voted to power.

Addressing a rally at Kolhapur in western Maharashtra, Modi said the opposition bloc cannot even reach a three-digit figure or 'at the doorstep of forming a government, but has plans to have one prime minister every year if they get a chance'.

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