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Frontrunner & elusive poll theme

Excitement is often highest in 'wave' elections. There is a sense of anticipation, a better future, even vengeance. For these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly themeless election

Lok Sabha polls 2024 Phase 2: Over 27.5% voter turnout recorded till 11 am

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Upset over Cong not fielding any Muslim in Maha, Naseem writes to Kharge

Maharashtra Congress working president Naseem Khan on Friday expressed disappointment over the party or the opposition bloc MVA not fielding any Muslim candidate for the Lok Sabha polls in the state and told AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge he was pulling out of campaigning. In a letter to Kharge, Khan said he will not campaign for party candidates for remaining phases of the Lok Sabha polls and is also resigning from the state Congress campaign committee. The former state minister said the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), of which the Congress is a key constituent, has not nominated a single Muslim candidate in Maharashtra, which has 48 Lok Sabha seats, the second highest after Uttar Pradesh (80). Many Muslim organisations, leaders and also party workers from all over Maharashtra were expecting the Congress to nominate at least one candidate from the minority community, but unfortunately this has not happened, he noted. Now, they are asking "Congress ko Muslim vote chahiye, candidate kyu

PM scared, may even shed tears on stage: Rahul Gandhi's fresh salvo at Modi

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday took potshots at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his attack on the grand old party, saying he is scared and may even shed tears on the stage. He called the BJP Bharatiya Chombu Party'. Chombu in Kannada means round water pot, which is sometimes used to convey emptiness and deception. "You have heard the prime minister's speeches. He is scared. It's possible that he may shed tears on stage," Gandhi said, addressing public meetings in the district headquarters towns of Vijayapura and Ballari in the party-governed state. Modi has targeted the Congress on a variety of issues in recent campaign rallies, including "mangalsutra", "redistribution of wealth" and "inheritance tax" charges. The former Congress chief accused Modi of 'diverting public attention' through various means. "Sometimes he talks about China and Pakistan, and sometimes he will make you beat plates and ask you to switch on the torch light of your mobile phones." He pointed out th

Lok Sabha polls 2024 Phase 2: Over 9% voter turnout recorded till 9 am

Lok Sabha elections 2024: The second phase will see voting in 88 constituencies in 13 states and Union territories (UTs)

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Kharge writes to PM Modi, seeks time to explain Congress manifesto

Congress president says he is 'neither shocked nor surprised by the language used by the Prime Minister', referring to Modi's election speeches

Modi standing as wall between you and Congs' plan to loot you: PM to people

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday stepped up his attack on the Congress and said he was standing as a wall between the people and the grand old party's plans to loot them. Addressing an election rally in Madhya Pradesh's Morena city, Modi said former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi had abolished the inheritance tax after his mother Indira Gandhi's death to save her wealth from going to the government. After benefitting from it, the Congress now wants to impose it again on the people of the country, he said. If the Congress comes to power, it will snatch more than half of the earnings of the people through inheritance tax, he said. A day after Rahul Gandhi's remark that those who call themselves "deshbhakt" are scared of the 'X-ray' of caste census, Modi said the Congress wants to confiscate people's jewellery and small savings by conducting an X-ray of their properties and valuables. "Listen with your ears wide open about the sins that the Congress has committed. I want to put

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Sam Pitroda argued that his remarks were merely a discussion on policies in the US and not a proposal for India

Adhir alleges harassment of Cong workers by cops to affect poll prospects

West Bengal Congress chief and Baharampur Lok Sabha seat candidate Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Wednesday shot off a letter to Chief Election Commission Rajiv Kumar, seeking his intervention into alleged harassment of party workers by policemen with an "intention to affect the party's poll prospects". Chowdhury, in his two-page letter, alleged that two police officers in Baharampur have been harassing Congress workers, "implicating them on false and frivolous charges, with an intention to affect the party's prospects in the Lok Sabha elections". "I am writing to bring to your attention and seek your immediate intervention to put an end to the blatant acts of misuse of the law by the law enforcement agencies themselves in implicating persons affiliated to the Congress on false and frivolous charges with the obvious intention to mar the party's electoral prospects," he said in the letter. The Congressman also highlighted a couple of alleged incidents and said that they were "systematical

Lok Sabha polls Phase 2: 88 seats go to polls on April 26; all details here

Lok Sabha elections 2024: Key candidates including Rahul Gandhi, Shashi Tharoor, and Hema Malini's seats to go to polls on Phase 2 on April 26

Are BJP, Congress serious about the fiscal autonomy of gram panchayats?

Transferring items from Concurrent list to State list is not enough to give more powers to the latter

Congress' 'dangerous intentions' visible: PM reacts on Pitroda's remark

PM lying since election slipping away from BJP grasp: Rahul Gandhi

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EC starts examining complaints against PM Modi's remarks on Muslims

The Congress, while urging the Election Commission to take action against Modi for his "redistribution of wealth" remarks made in Rajasthan's Banswara

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Campaigning ends for phase two of Lok Sabha elections in 89 seats

Campaigning ended on Wednesday for five Lok Sabha seats in Bihar where electors will decide the fate of 50 candidate in the second phase of polling on April 26. Leading the NDA charge, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a rally in Purnea, a seat which is being contested by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's JD(U). Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addressed his first election meeting in Bihar at Bhagalpur, a seat the party is contesting after more than two decades. The party has fielded MLA Ajeet Sharma against JD(U) MP Ajay Mandal from the seat. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge addressed rallies in Kishanganj, the lone seat the party secured in Bihar in 2019, and at Katihar, where former Union minister Tariq Anwar is trying to wrest back his pocket borough from JD(U) MP Dulal Chandra Goswami. The Congress is contesting nine of the state's 40 Lok Sabha seats, and three of these are going to polls in the second phase. The JD(U) holds all but one of the five seats going to polls in

Himachal BJP leader Ranjit Singh, close aide of ex CM Dhumal joins Congress

Himachal Pradesh BJP leader Ranjit Singh, a close aide of former chief minister and senior party leader Prem Kumar Dhumal, joined the Congress on Wednesday, leaders of the ruling party in the state said here. Singh joined the Congress in New Delhi in the presence of the party's in-charge for Himachal Pradesh Rajeev Shukla, they said. Ranjit Singh had contested the 2022 Himachal Assembly polls from Sujanpur on a BJP ticket but lost to Rajinder Rana, the then Congress candidate from the seat. Rana is one of the six Congress rebels who had voted in favour of the BJP nominee Harsh Mahajan in the Rajya Sabha elections held on February 27 and was later disqualified from the Assembly. All six then joined the BJP and were fielded from their respective constituencies for bypolls to the seats. After Rana joined the BJP, Dhumal announced open support for him and started campaigning in his favour. Earlier, Singh had strongly protested Rana's inclusion in the BJP and announced that he would ..