Lok Sabha elections: Modi's anti-national acts dividing India, says Rahul
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address an election rally in Solapur, while Congress President Rahul Gandhi will address rallies in Kerala. Catch Lok Sabha elections live updates
Modi attacks Sharad Pawar for allegedly raising questions about his family
"We (Modi) are a backward community, we have been subjected to such humiliation by the Congress many times in the past. They have never stopped showing me my caste and hurling abuses, now, he's calling the whole Modi community as 'chors'," Modi pointed out. Read full report here
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BJP won't allow two prime ministers in India: Amit Shah
"No one can take away Kashmir from us. As long as BJP exists, Kashmir will continue to be an integral part of India," Shah said at a rally Maharashtra's Tasgaon
His comments came after Omar Abdullah allegedly suggested that Kashmir should have a separate PM. Read more
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Kamal Nath doing politics over natural tragedy: BJP
The BJP Wednesday accused Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath of doing politics over the loss caused by overnight rains and storm after the Congress leader charged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's concerns were limited to his home state Gujarat.
Kamal Nath had in a tweet taken a swipe at Modi, saying he was the country's prime minister, not of Gujarat and that rains and lightning had left 10 people dead in Madhya Pradesh but Modi's concerns were confined to Gujarat. Read more
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Congress, BJP spar over 'corruption' in MP
Against the backdrop of Income Tax raids on close aides of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath, the opposition BJP says it would make corruption as the main plank of its campaign for the Lok Sabha polls.
The ruling Congress in the state also said it will probe all scams that came to light during the previous BJP-led government. Read more
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Rahul Gandhi in Wayanad
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You can watch Modi's speech in Solapur here
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Modi addresses rally in Solapur
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Rahul Gandhi lays down the 3 main issues in this year's election
Rahul Gandhi said the three key issues ruling the 2019 Lok Sabha polls are destruction of the Indian economy, personal corruption of Modi and the plight of the farmers.
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PM Modi dividing nation, says Rahul
"Today the most anti-national act is the act of Modi who is dividing the nation," said Rahul Gandhi as he kicked off his day-long campaign in Kerala.
"Crippling the agricultural system, leading to farmers suicide is another anti-national act of Modi. Youths loosing their jobs is also another anti-national act. Modi has failed in all these and it's time that he answers," he said
Rahul Gandhi is set to address rallies in Wayanad, Kozhikode, Wandoor and Palakkad
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Rs 300 per voter: Rs 1.5-cr seized in Tamil Nadu
The Income-Tax Department said it has seized Rs 1.48 crore cash allegedly stashed to bribe voters in Tamil Nadu's Theni district, where an assembly bypoll is scheduled tomorrow.
Unaccounted cash worth Rs 1.48 crore was seized. It was neatly packed in 94 packets and envelops on which the ward number, number of voters and the amount of Rs 300 per voter was written, I-T Director General (investigations) B Murali Kumar said. More details here
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Watch Rahul Gandhi's public address at Thiruvananthapuram
Lok Sabha elections 2019: Congress President Rahul Gandhi addressed rallies in Kerala, while Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed an election rally in Madha Lok Sabha constituency of Solapur district.
The high-voltage campaigning for the second phase of Lok Sabha polls ended Tuesday as voting will be held on Thursday for 96 seats spread across 12 states and the union territory of Puducherry.
Out of 39 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu, 38 will go to polls tomorrow as polling in Vellore constituency was canceled Wednesday over alleged use of cash for bribing voters. It is the first major election in the state without the stalwarts late AIADMK leader Jayalalithaa and late DMK leader M Karunanidhi.
After Tamil Nadu, the biggest chunk of 14 seats going to polls tomorrow is Karnataka. Other seats include 10 in Maharashtra, eight in Uttar Pradesh, five in Assam, Bihar and Odisha each, three each in Chhattisgarh and West Bengal, two in Jammu and Kashmir and one each in Manipura, Tripura and Puducherry.
The week leading to the second phase also saw the Election Commission barring Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and BSP chief Mayawati from campaigning for 72 hours, while Samajwadi Party's Rampur candidate Azam Khan and union minister Maneka Gandhi were barred for 48 hours.
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