LS Polls 2024 LIVE: The results will be announced on June 4. The first phase of voting for the 18th Lok Sabha elections began in 21 states and Union territories today. By 10 am, over 9.7% voter turnout was recorded from across the states. Seats in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, …
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday released its seventh candidate list for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The seventh list mentioned the names of two candidates nominated from Maharashtra’s Amravati and Chitradurga constituency of Karnataka. The saffron party has fielded Navneet Rana from the Amravati Lok Sabha reserved (SC) seat in Maharashtra and Govind …
Lok Sabha polls: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday released its fifth list of 111 candidates for the upcoming general elections. Among those who made the cut in this list are Ramayan actor Arun Govil, Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut, ex-PM HD Deve Gowda’s son-in-law Dr C N Manjunath, Sandeshkhali violence survivor Rekha Patra, and …
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on March 24 released its fifth list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls 2024. The list, comprising 111 names, featured a serving union minister, former union ministers, new faces and turncoats. Industrialist and former Congress member of parliament (MP) Naveen Jindal, former judge of Calcutta High Court Abhijit …
A day after a controversy erupted over the candidature of Congress’s Jaipur Lok Sabha candidate Sunil Sharma over his association with The Jaipur Dialogues, a right-wing organisation known for ridiculing Congress and its leaders, the party dropped him as its candidate. The Congress party has instead fielded former cabinet minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas from the …
Uncertainty continues over the candidature of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member of parliament (MP) Varun Gandhi from the Pilibhit seat in Uttar Pradesh, which he represents. Pilibhit, along with seven other seats in Uttar Pradesh, will go to the polls on April 19 in the first phase of the Lok Sabha 2024 elections, for which …
The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), the main opposition party of Tamil Nadu, Wednesday said the party has finalised seat-sharing arrangement for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections with allies Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK), Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) and Puthiya Tamizhagam (PT). Disclosing the electoral pacts with allies at party headquarters …
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and PMK founder Ramadoss greeting each other during a public meeting in Gajjalnaickenpatti in Salem in Tamil Nadu on March 19, 2024. | Photo Credit: E. Lakshmi Narayanan Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday, March 19, 2024, said that stringent action would be taken against corruption over the next five years, and …
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a public meeting ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in Salem on March 19, 2024. | Photo Credit: E. Lakshmi Narayanan For the second successive day, the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi attacked the Congress party and Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi over his remarks on ‘Shakti’, making the issue …
Launching a fierce criticism against the Narendra Modi-led BJP government, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said Mr. Modi could not win the Lok Sabha elections without electronic voting machines (EVMs), Enforcement Directorate (ED), Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Income Tax department. He accused the ruling dispensation of subverting democratic institutions. “Mr. Modi …