Preparations are in full swing for the second phase of voting in the Lok Sabha election on April 26 after the first phase was successfully completed on April 19. People of 89 Parliamentary constituencies across 13 states will exercise their voting rights on April 26.
Which States Are Going To Polls on April 26?
Voting under the second phase of Lok Sabha elections will take place in Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tripura, West Bengal and Jammu and Kashmir.
Intense Poll campaigns
Political Parties have intensified their poll campaigns for the second phase of Lok Sabha elections. Prime Minister Narendra Modi hit out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday, saying that the Wayanad MP will be forced to look for another safe seat after the Lok Sabha elections in his Kerala constituency.
Home Minister Amit Shah is set to address a public meeting in West Bengal’s Darjeeling on Sunday. Afterwards, he will leave for campaigning in Bihar, followed by Assam. However, due to bad weather, there are chances that the meeting could stand cancelled. According to the latest reports, Shah’s helicopter could not land in Darjeeling due to bad weather.
A day after polling under the first phase of Lok Sabha elections, the Congress on Saturday claimed that an “undercurrent” in favour of the INDIA bloc is gaining strength. On the other hand, PM Modi expressed confidence that the BJP’s vote share in South India will increase in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls as compared to previous general elections.
Lok Sabha Elections Latest Updates
- Jailed Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s wife Sunita Kejriwal on Sunday accused the BJP-led central government of denying insulin to her husband alleging that it wants to kill him. She asserted that the opposition INDIA bloc will fight against the “dictatorship” of the BJP and win. “They want to kill my husband Arvind Kejriwal. his food is under camera observation; he is denied insulin. My husband is a sugar patient who has been on insulin for 12 years; he needs 50 units of insulin daily,” Sunita said at the Ulgulan Nyay Rally in Ranchi.
- Union Minister Rajnath Singh will file his nomination for Lok Sabha Election 2024 on April 29 in the presence of other senior leaders.
- Two empty chairs – one each for jailed Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal former and former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren – were kept on stage as the INDIA bloc organised a mega rally in Ranchi on Ranchi. The ‘Ulgulan Nyay Mahrally’ was organised mainly by the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and a large number of its workers wore Soren masks.
- Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will skip the ‘Ulgulan Nyay Rally’ of the INDIA alliance in Ranchi on Sunday due to health issues.
- “Shri Rahul Gandhi was all set to campaign today in Satna and Ranchi where the INDIA rally is being held. He took ill suddenly and is unable to leave New Delhi for the present. Congress President Shri Mallikarjun Kharge ji is of course attending the Ranchi rally after addressing a public gathering in Satna,” Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said in an X post.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday called Lok Sabha polls, a “big festival of democracy” and said, “The country believes from here a new journey into future will also begin”.
- Addressing a public meeting in Maharashtra’s Buldhana on Sunday, BJP national president JP Nadda said PM Modi has “changed the political definition of India, has changed the style of Indian politics and has changed the way of running of Indian politics”.
- “What was the politics like earlier? Good slogans were used, and promises were made and then forgotten about it….But after the arrival of PM Modi, Indian politics has become the politics of responsibility towards the voter. Instead of vote-bank politics, politics of accountability is being done…We started moving towards development,” he said.
- Congress CEC meeting for the state of Punjab took place at the party headquarters in Delhi in the presence of party president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday.
- Leaders of 14 political parties, including Congress’ Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, RJD’s Lalu Prasad, NC’s Farooq Abdullah, SP’s Akhilesh Yadav, and Sunita Kejriwal, wife of jailed Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, are set to participate in the INDIA bloc’s ‘Ulgulan Nyay rally’ Ranchi on Sunday.
- Posters of INDIA alliance leaders including senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, party MP Rahul Gandhi, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, former Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren and his wife Kalpana Soren have been put up at Rally Ground in Ranchi ahead of the ‘Ulgulan Nyay Rally’ rally of INDIA alliance on Sunday.
- BJP’s candidate from Kasaragod Parliamentary constituency in Kerala, Ashwini stressed that BJP is growing “step by step because PM Narendra Modi after 2014 has brought a lot of developments in India” benefitting people of Kasaragod and Kerala.
- “After PM Modi became the Prime Minister he brought drastic development in infrastructure…Not only infrastructure development, we have got some schemes also for the poor people,” she added.
- Assam Minister Jayanta Malla Baruah expressed confidence in BJP’s victory on all five seats of Assam that went to polls on April 19.
- “In Assam, voting for 5 seats is over and we will win all these 5 seats. Campaigning for 2nd phase is underway…BJP and our alliance party will win 14 out of 14 seats in Assam,” he said.
- Tamil Nadu registered 69.72% voter turnout in the first phase of Lok Sabha elections on April 19, according to the Election Commission of India.
- A high-stakes poll battle is likely in Rajasthan’s Chittorgarh Parliamentary constituency between BJP state president CP Joshi and Congress candidate Udai Lal Anjana, a former Rajasthan government minister.
- BJP’s star campaigner and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath conducted roadshows in Chittorgarh and Jodhpur campaigning for CP Joshi on Saturday.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi is also set to address a rally in Rajasthan on Sunday.
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