Lok Sabha Election 2024: PM Modi Says Congress Will Impose 'Inheritance Tax' Amid Uproar Over Pitroda's Remark

Political parties have intensified the poll campaigns with a day remaining in the polling for phase 2 of the Lok Sabha election 2024. Wednesday marks the final day of poll campaigning before 89 Parliamentary constituencies across 13 states head to the polls on April 26.

States Going To Polls On April 26

Voting under the second phase of Lok Sabha elections on April 26 will take place in Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tripura, West Bengal and Jammu and Kashmir.

Union Home Minister and BJP leader Amit Shah will arrive in Kerala on Wednesday to participate in the BJP-led NDA’s Lok Sabha election campaign.

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Latest Updates

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday intensified the attack on the Congress party saying their manifesto has the “stamp of the Muslim League on it”.
• While addressing the Vijay Sankalp Shankhnaad Maharally in Surguja, Chhattisgarh, PM Modi said, “When the Congress manifesto came out, I had said on the same day that the Congress manifesto had the stamp of the Muslim League on it. When the Constitution was being made, it was decided under the leadership of Baba Saheb Ambedkar that there would be no reservation on the basis of religion in India. But for vote bank Congress did not care about the words of these great men, did not care about the sanctity of the Constitution nor did it care about the words of Baba Saheb Ambedkar.”
• “Years ago, Congress had tried to give reservation on the basis of religion in Andhra Pradesh. Then Congress planned to implement it all over the country…Congress said that reservation should be given to some people based on religion by stealing some part of the SC/ST and OBC quota,” he added.
• Reacting to the chairman of Indian Overseas Congress Sam Pitroda’s remark, the prime minister launched a scathing attack on the grand old party saying the Congress will impose Inheritance Tax and “snatch your ancestral property from you.”
• “The royal family’s prince’s advisor and the royal family’s prince’s father’s advisor had said that more taxes should be imposed on the middle class. Now these people have gone one step further than this, Congress says that it will impose an Inheritance Tax, and it will also impose tax on the Inheritance received from parents. The property you have accumulated through your hard work will not be given to your children. The claws of Congress will snatch that too from you,” PM Modi said.
• “As long as you are alive, Congress will impose higher taxes and when you are no longer alive, it will burden you with Inheritance Tax. Those people who considered the entire Congress party as their ancestral property and handed it over to their children, now do not want Indians to pass on their property to their children,” he added.
• BJP has given the South Mumbai ticket to its alliance partner, the Eknath Shinde faction of Shiv Sena.
• Milind Deora will be the NDA candidate from South Mumbai.
• Surat Congress leader Nilesh Kumbhani, whose nomination as Lok Sabha candidate was rejected over alleged discrepancies, is missing and can’t be reached over the phone, an NDTV report said quoting local media on Wednesday.
• The latest development comes a day after BJP candidate Mukesh Dalal cinched unopposed victory from Surat after all rival candidates withdrew from the contest.
• Amid speculations that Kumbhani may join the BJP, Congress workers protested outside his locked house with posters that read, “janata ka gaddar (people’s traitor)”.
• Repolling at eight polling stations in Arunachal Pradesh is underway.
• Due to incidents of violence at eight polling centres during the phase 1 voting of Lok Sabha and Assembly elections, repolling was scheduled for Wednesday.
• The polling process began at 6:00 and will conclude at 2:00 pm.
• Quoting party sources, a PTI report said Home Minister Amit Shah will address a poll rally at Punnapra Carmel Ground in Kerala’s Alappuzha for NDA candidate Sobha Surendran.
• Joining in on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “wealth redistribution” jibe at Congress, Union Minister Smriti Irani mocked Rahul Gandhi and his brother-in-law Robert Vadra saying “every person now needs to hide their property papers”.
• “There is one thing to worry about, whether Rahul Gandhi knows something or not, his brother-in-law knows Jagdishpur. People of Jagdishpur need to beware now. If his brother-in-law knows Jagdishpur, every village, every house, every person now needs to hide their property papers,” Irani said in Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi.

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