Lok Sabha 2019 highlights: Homeless to have pukka houses by 2022, says Modi

PM Narendra Modi addressed two rallies in UP and MP on Wednesday. Meanwhile, Delhi witnessed rigorous campaigns by AAP and BJP leaders. Track LIVE updates on Lok Sabha Elections 2019

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Modi's policy of inclusive growth has ushered development in the country: Naqvi

The BJP government at the Centre launched a "jihad against corruption" and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's policy of inclusive growth has ushered development throughout the country, Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said on Wednesday.

 

The BJP leader was campaigning for the party's Ladakh Lok Sabha seat candidate Jamyang Tsering Namgyal.

 

"The policy of inclusive growth of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has created marks of development from Kanyakumari to Kargil," Naqvi said at a public meeting in Jammu and Kashmir's Kargil district.

 

The Ladakh seat, of which Leh and Kargil are a part, is the largest in India in terms of area and goes to polls on May 6, the fifth phase of the general elections.

6:24 PM

EC notice to Sidhu over personal remarks against PM Modi

Election Commission of India gives notice to Punjab Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu for allegedly making personal remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a rally in Ahmedabad on April 17. ECI has asked him to reply by 6 pm tomorrow.

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We are working to provide each homeless a pukka house by 2022: PM Modi

"We are working to provide each homeless a pukka house by 2022. Continuous effort is on to provide toilets, kitchen with LPG connection and respectful life to every women by us," said PM Narendra Modi.

6:12 PM

Congress is dishonest at every level except nepotism, corruption: PM Modi

"Congress is dishonest at every level, but when it comes to nepotism and corruption, it does that with full honesty," said PM Narendra Modi.

 

"The funds that the central govt sent for women and child welfare, the Congress Party used those for the benefit of 'Namdaar'," he added.

6:03 PM

Congress even dreams of killing me: PM Modi

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CPI(M) extends support to AAP in Delhi

The CPI(M) on Wednesday appealed to the people of Delhi to vote for the Aam Aadmi Party and defeat the BJP in the national capital.

 

In a statement, the party's Delhi State Committee said in the last five years of the NDA government an "unmitigated disaster" had been unleashed in the country.

 

"This government has promoted heinous attacks on Muslims and Dalits and has actively engaged in sharpening of communal polarisation. There has been a sharp increase in crimes against women and girls. The Modi government has launched severe attacks on democratic rights of the people and undermined different Constitutional authorities. It has sought to subvert the secular and democratic essence of the Constitution," the CPI(M) said.

5:57 PM

If SP-BSP alliance 'mahamilawat' then what's NDA: Akhilesh Yadav

Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday slammed Bharatiya Janata Party for calling SP-BSP coalition 'mahamilawat', saying the NDA is in even bigger problem because it is tied up with more than 35 parties.

 

"The BJP has tied up with 38 political parties for Lok Sabha elections and yet they call the SP-BSP coalition 'Mahamilawat'. Just imagine if our two-party alliance is a problem then what does it make their coalition," Akhilesh said at an election rally here."

 

The SP leader asserted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had fooled the nation by branding himself as a tea maker, but situations are different now as landslide voting in the favour of SP-BSP has taken place so far.

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Modi got ex-BSF jawan's nomination 'cancelled': Kejriwal

AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi got former BSF jawan Tej Bahadur Yadav's nomination "cancelled" as he was "afraid" to contest against him from the Varanasi Lok Sabha seat.

 

Yadav's nomination as the Samajwadi Party candidate from the seat was rejected Wednesday over "discrepancies" in the two sets of nomination papers submitted by him.

 

Notices in this regard were sent to him on Tuesday.

 

"There will be fewer occasions in history when the jawans of a country are compelled to challenge their PM, but this is the first time in history that a PM has been so afraid of a jawan that instead of competing with him, he got his nomination cancelled on technical grounds.

 

"Modi ji, you are very weak and the country's jawan won," Kejriwal tweeted.

5:29 PM

BJP using martyrdom of jawans for election purposes: Mayawati

BSP chief Mayawati on Wednesday accused the BJP of using the martyrdom of jawans for election purposes and regretted that the country's borders are still not totally secure.

 

She also alleged that like the previous Congress government, the BJP dispensation too is using the CBI, ED and the Income Tax department against its political opponents for electoral gains.

 

"Under such circumstance, the electorate have to see to it that neither the BJP nor the Congress... comes to power at the centre," the BSP chief said at an election meeting here.

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Whoever asking for votes in name of nationalism should face a soldier: Akhilesh Yadav

"When they are asking for votes in the name of nationalism, they should have faced a soldier. People who dismissed him from his job because he complained about food, how can those people be called real patriots?" says Samajwadi Party's Akhilesh Yadav on Varanasi candidate Tej Bahadur Yadav's nomination rejection.

4:54 PM

Sitaram Yechury writes EC, alleges misuse of official machinery by PM Modi

Sitaram Yechury, General Secretary of Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPI (M) on Wednesday wrote to the Election Commission of India (ECI), alleging misuse of the official machinery by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi for electoral gain in the Lok Sabha elections.

 

In the letter addressed to Chief Election Commissioner, Sunil Arora, Yechury has also expressed concern regarding the manner in which the ECI is dealing with the complaints regarding the violation of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

 

Through the letter, Yechury informed the Commission, "a web magazine has published an article showing the manner in which government infrastructure and machinery has been brazenly used by the Prime Minister's Office for securing information from various ministries, as well as, concerned state and district administration to provide inputs for preparing his election speeches."

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NYAY scheme an answer to BJP's wrong policies: Rahul Gandhi

Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday termed the NYAY scheme as an answer to the wrong policies of the BJP government which have "annihilated" the country's economy.

 

Addressing an election rally for party candidate Kaiser Jahan at the Gulzar Shah ground in Biswan, the Gandhi scion slammed the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

 

"Demonetisation and GST together annihilated the country's economy. The NYAY Scheme of the Congress is the only answer to the poor people affected by the wrong policies of the BJP," the Congress chief said.

4:40 PM

If granted full statehood, Delhi will become 'as bad as UP, Bihar': Ajay Maken

Senior Congress leader and party candidate from the New Delhi constituency, Ajay Maken, says full statehood will be a disaster for the national capital and the law and order in the city will become "as bad as Uttar Pradesh or Bihar".

 

Maken said Delhi being the national capital is "fully" funded by the Union government and that the tax burden on its people will increase if it becomes a state.

 

"The salary of the Delhi Police alone is Rs 8,000 crore per year. The Union government spends more than Rs 3,000 crore a year on five-six super specialty hospitals in the city. The local administration doesn't have to pay a single penny," he told PTI.

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Nomination declared invalid even after submitting evidence: SP candidate's lawyer

"We had submitted the evidence that was asked from us. Still, the nomination was declared invalid. We will go to the Supreme Court," Rajesh Gupta, Samajwadi Party candidate Tej Bahadur Yadav's lawyer.

3:59 PM

PM Modi recalls 1954 Kumbh Mela stampede at election rally

Lauding the arrangements by the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh for this year's Kumbh Mela, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday recalled the 1954 stampede at the religious gathering in Allahabad when Jawaharlal Nehru was PM.

 

"When Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was prime minister, thousands of people were killed in the Kumbh stampede in Allahabad," Modi said at an election meeting.

 

The prime minister claimed that for saving the image of the then government, the media, too, had suppressed the news.

 

"The stampede victims' families names were never mentioned and not a single rupee was given to them (as compensation)... It was insensitivity and this sin was committed by the country's first prime minister," Modi said.

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Samajwadi Party candidate says nomination rejected wrongly, will move SC

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Multiple Voter IDs: Court issues summons to UP, Delhi EC on complaint filed against Kejriwal's wife

A Delhi court Wednesday issued summons to the state election commissions of Uttar Pradesh and Delhi on a complaint against Sunita Kejriwal, wife of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, for allegedly having two voter identity cards.

 

Metropolitan Magistrate Shaifali Barnala Tondon took cognisance on the complaint filed by Delhi BJP spokesperson Harish Khurana and issued summons to authorised officials of the state Election Commission of both Uttar Pradesh and Delhi to bring all relevant records related to Sunita Kejriwal.

 

The court then posted the matter for hearing on June 3.

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Chief Electoral Officer, Odisha, Surendra Kumar: Election Commission of India approves shifting of polled EVMs in two districts Jagatsinghpur & Gajapati. Entire shifting process will be conducted in presence of candidates and the entire process will be video-graphed.

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Asaduddin Owaisi, AIMIM on Shiv Sena's proposal to ban burqa

Asaduddin Owaisi, AIMIM on Shiv Sena's proposal to ban burqa: Shiv Sena is ignorant, SC judgement on privacy clearly lays down that choice is now a fundamental right. It's a violation of the MCC, I request EC to take immediate note of it, it's an attempt to create polarization.

12:37 PM

How can we forget the explosions in Ayodhya, Faizabad and other places before 2014: Modi

How can we forget the explosions in Ayodhya, Faizabad and other places before 2014. How can we forget the day when there were attacks in India. Reports of such explosions have stopped in the last five years: PM Narendra Modi 

12:32 PM

Don’t make mistake of electing weak govt: Modi

Urging Ayodhya voters to choose their candidate carefully, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the only thriving business in Pakistan is of exporting terror and terrorist. He said that even though terror related incidents have come down in India, people should not think that the threat has passed. "Savdhani hati ki durghatna ghati. Kamzor sarkar laane ki galti mat kijiyega (the moment you let your attention waiver, some mishap may occur. So don't elect a weak government.)" Modi said.

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The lamp in Ayodhya has been burning for thousands of years, but the Diwali that is celebrated now becomes a matter of discussion around the world: Prime Minister Narendra Modi

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Our government has recently brought the ' PM Shram Yogi Mandhan ' scheme: Modi

Our government has recently brought the ' PM Shram Yogi Mandhan ' scheme.

 

This will ensure pension to Labour partners up to Rs 3, 000/-after the age of 60 years: Prime Minister Narendra Modi