LS polls highlights: Lok Sabha results are clearly visible in Karuli today, says PM at Rajasthan rally
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Rishikesh: PM Narendra Modi with Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami during a public meeting, ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, in Rishikesh, Thursday, April 11, 2024. (Photo PTI)
At an election rally in Rajasthan's Karauli, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today asserted that Lok Sabha polls 2024 are not about who will become MP, it is about giving new energy to strengthen resolve of developed India.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday, stating that the loans waived off by PM Modi could have been used to pay MGNREGA wages for 24 years. At a rally in Bikaner, Gandhi asserted that the BJP doesn't talk about unemployment and inflation, and keeps diverting the attention of citizens.
While addressing a public meeting in Uttarakhand's Rishikesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasised that terrorists are being eliminated in their den under his strong leadership.
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Praful Patel has argued that party founder Sharad Pawar was "50 per cent ready" to go with the Maharashtra government last year when his nephew Ajit Pawar took oath as the state's Deputy Chief Minister. Ajit Pawar triggered a split in the NCP when he and eight ministers joined the BJP-Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde faction) government in Maharashtra on July 2 last year. Patel told news agency ANI, "On July 2, 2023, Ajit Pawar and our ministers took oath under the Maharashtra government. On July 15 and 16, we met Sharad Pawar in Mumbai. We took his blessings and requested him to join us. We said we wanted to work under your leadership."
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Lok sabha polls: After Parampal Kaur joins BJP, Punjab CM says resignation as IAS officer not accepted yet
Shortly after Akali Dal leader Sikandar Singh Maluka's daughter-in-law Parampal Kaur Sidhu joined the BJP in New Delhi, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Thursday stated that the state government has not accepted her resignation as an IAS officer. Sidhu and her husband joined the BJP in the presence of Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri and its national general secretary Vinod Tawde in Delhi earlier in the day.
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Rahul Gandhi of taking PFI support in Wayanad LS seat, claims BJP leader Smriti Irani
Union minister and Amethi MP Smriti Irani Thursday claimed that Congress' Rahul Gandhi has taken the support of the banned Popular Front of India to contest the Lok Sabha polls from Kerala's Wayanad seat. While addressing a Yadav Sammelan at her residence in Gauriganj, she alleged,"Rahul Gandhi took the support of the terrorist organisation PFI that made a list of Hindus to kill, to contest the elections in Wayanad."
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BJP accuses Mamata of resorting to polarisation on Eid, TMC hits back
The saffron party today accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of resorting to vote bank politics on the occasion of Eid and trying to polarise the society. “Instead of spreading the message of amity, brotherhood among the Muslim brethren at the gathering on Red Road, the CM tried to sow the seeds of division and polarisation for her narrow vote bank politics," BJP Rajya Sabha MP Samik Bhattacharya alleged. Trinamool Congress spokesperson Trinankur Bhattacharya said that the CM only pointed out the “hatred-filled, divisive, communal agenda of BJP-RSS which are using central forces to disrupt the communal amity in Bengal".
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Lok Sabha polls 2024: BSP announces party's Punjab functionary as LS candidate from Sangrur
The Bahujan Samaj Party today declared its Punjab functionary Makhan Singh as candidate from Sangrur Lok Sabha seat. Punjab BSP chief Jasvir Singh Garhi said Makhan Singh has a longstanding association with the party.
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INDIA bloc promoting own family members, while Modi working for poor, backward: Amit Shah
Union Home Minister Amit Shah hit out at the INDIA bloc for practising dynastic politics, and stated that in the upcoming elections, people have to choose between the one leader who worked for taking every section of society forward and those who promote their own family members. Shah was speaking a public meeting in Mandla (ST) seat for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate and Union minister Faggan Singh Kulaste.
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BJP government is working on making farmers prosperous: PM Modi at Rajasthan rally
"The Lok Sabha election of 2024 is an election to provide new energy to the Vikshit Bharat campaign. In the last 10 years, the BJP brought solutions to those problems on which the Congress had given up. Congress gave the slogan of 'Gareebi Hatao' for decades but Modi brought 25 crore of Indians out of poverty. Congress left farmers on their own but the BJP government is working to make farmers prosperous. Today 10 crore farmers are receiving Kisan Samman Nidhi. It is for the first time that any government has been concerned for cattle too. Domesticated animals are getting free vaccinations," PM Modi said at an election rally in Karauli, Rajasthan.
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PM Modi addresses public rally in Karauli
"This is a land of 'Bhakti' and 'Shakti'.Your blessings and the huge number of youth and women present here are a huge message for the country. The results of 4 June are clearly visible in Karuli today. Karauli is saying '4 June, 400 paar' ," Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today.
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Unemployment, inflation not being raised by media: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi
At the Bikaner rally, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said the two biggest issues in the country right now are unemployment and inflation, but these are not being raised by the media. The forthcoming General elections are about protecting the country's Constitution and democracy, the former Congress chief said. "It is an election of the backwards, Dalits, tribals and poor people in the general category," he said.
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BJP wants to divert citizens' attention: Rahul Gandhi
"They (BJP) don't talk about unemployment, inflation. Their work is to divert your attention. They don't want the issues of backward classes, farmers and poor to be shown on national and regional media," Rahul Gandhi said at Congress' Rajasthan rally.
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No one is listening to farmers, youngsters and women: Rahul Gandhi at Bikaner rally
Farmers saying give us MSP, youngsters saying give us employment, women saying save us from inflation, but no one is listening to them, said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi at Congress' Bikaner rally. For the first time in India's history, farmers paying taxes, Gandhi claimed at a poll rally in Rajasthan's Bikaner.
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First Published: Apr 11 2024 | 9:13 AM IST