Election 2024: PM Modi's '2-0 Lead' In LS Polls To Congress' Complaint To EC Against Anurag Thakur
Lok Sabha Election 2024 LIVE: Union Home Minister Amit Shah is also set to hold a roadshow in Gujarat's Vadodara on Saturday
Lok Sabha Election 2024 LIVE: The Bharatiya Janata Party’s campaign for the Lok Sabha polls in Goa intensified with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address at a public rally at Sancoale on Saturday (April 27). The coastal state will go to the polls on May 7, in the third phase of Lok Sabha elections. As per Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, BJP’s vote count and lead in both the Lok Sabha seats in the state will increase after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting.
Earlier in the day, the Prime Minister, while addressing an election rally in Kolhapur, slammed the Opposition’s “anti-national agendas" and “appeasement" politics. Exuding confidence over BJP-NDA’s win in the Lok Sabha polls, he said that after the second phase voting — in football terminology — they are leading “2-0".
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- Congress leader Rahul Gandhi stirred controversy with his ‘Raja, Maharajas’ remark on Saturday. BJP IT Cell head Amit Malviya shared his comment’s video on X and said that Rahul should immediately “apologise to the Rajput community".
- Following the Congress party’s Central Election Committee’s meeting, general secretary KC Venugopal said, “Within one or two days, everything will be clear."
- Congress filed a complaint with the Election Commission against Union Minister Anurag Thakur, saying that he violated the poll code. Earlier in the day, Thakur had alleged the presence of a “foreign hand" in the grand old party’s manifesto. The BJP leader also reiterated an accusation earlier advanced by PM Modi. He said the opposition plans on distributing people’s wealth to Muslims.
- The BJP is working towards making Goa a major centre for international conferences. “Our government is working a lot on Goa’s infrastructure," PM Modi said.
- He noted that his government has made a separate ministry and budget for the fisheries sector. “It ensures that we can transform the lives of fishermen and people living in the coastal areas. We provided Kisan Credit cards to fishermen…Now we have decided to increase the insurance for the fishermen," the PM added.
- PM Modi, at the Goa rally, reiterated that the last ten years “is just a trailer", adding that “I need to achieve a lot and develop the country."
- He said that the NDA has an approach of “satisfaction, not appeasement". The saturation approach, the PM said, means ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’, “the benefit of all welfare schemes without any discrimination". He said that Goa is a “perfect example" of this approach.
- Addressing a mega rally in Goa, PM Modi said, “This election of 2024 is an election between two streams. One stream is of NDA which is working for the aspirations of the people of the country. It’s a stream which is working with an approach of saturation," adding that “on the other hand, the other stream is of INDI Alliance which works for its own interests and families."
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while addressing a public rally in Kolhapur, took the reference of the city being a football hub and said, “If I speak to you in Football terminology, yesterday after the completion of the second phase, BJP-NDA is leading 2-0."
- PM Modi slammed the opposition and said that they are using “anti-national agendas and appeasement", adding that now Congress party’s agenda is to “reinstate Article 370 in Kashmir".
- The BJP, in its 15th list for the general elections, fielded Ujjwal Deorao Nikam from the Mumbai North Central constituency. Nikam, a fine prosecutor and renowned name in the Bombay Legal Circle, also played a key role in the hanging of Ajmal Kasab in the 26/11 terror case.
- BJP MP Tejasvi Surya slammed the Congress government in Karnataka, saying that they turned a blind eye to the woes of the farmers and did nothing for drought relief.
The Congress continues to live in self glorification mode, while doing nothing for drought relief from the state’s exchequer over last 6 months.Traditionally, knowing fully well that the process of assessing claims takes its due time, State Govts have spent from their…
— Tejasvi Surya (ಮೋದಿಯ ಪರಿವಾರ) (@Tejasvi_Surya) April 27, 2024
- Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi chief Prakash Ambedkar on Saturday said that after the Lok Sabha elections, there will be no Maha Vikas Aghadi in Maharashtra.
- Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, while speaking on party nominees for Amethi, Rae Bareli seats in Uttar Pradesh said, “wait for few more days".
- Several people from the Sikh community in Delhi joined the BJP party in the presence of party National General Secretary Tarun Chugh, party leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa, and BJP President Virendraa Sachdeva.
#WATCH | Several people from the Sikh community in Delhi joined the BJP party in the presence of party National General Secretary Tarun Chugh, party leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa, and BJP President Virendraa Sachdeva. pic.twitter.com/aq4RVK8gQk— ANI (@ANI) April 27, 2024
- While addressing a public meeting in Varanasi, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi called gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari a “martyr" and said that he was killed by giving poison while in judicial custody.
- Union Minister and BJP candidate from Amethi Smriti Irani attended a public rally in Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi and said, “It has been said to us that after Wayanad’s voting, the Congress candidate will arrive here, but first he will visit Ram temple. They rejected the invitation to the Ram temple consecration ceremony, now they will go to the temple as they think that this might get them votes, which means now they will go to betray god as well."
- On AAP cadres staging ‘Jail Ka Jawab Vote Se’ campaign, party candidate from East Delhi Lok Sabha seat Kuldeep Kumar said, “CM Arvind Kejriwal who worked to provide the best school, and free- electricity to Delhiites has been trapped in a frivolous case by BJP…From today onwards Sunita Kejriwal’s roadshow will begin; she is going to seek support and blessings from the Delhi people to fight against this government."
- Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s wife Sunita Kejriwal will spearhead AAP’s Lok Sabha campaign in the national capital and other states, starting with her maiden roadshow on Saturday in support of party’s East Delhi candidate Kuldeep Kumar.
- The Jammu parliamentary constituency, where 22 candidates are in the fray, saw peaceful polling and recorded nearly 72 per cent voter turnout on Friday in the second phase of the Lok Sabha elections.
- The sources said Congress is likely to discuss the candidates for the Lok Sabha seats of Amethi and Raebareli, previously held by Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi, respectively. The Congress has so far announced candidates for 317 Lok Sabha seats.
- Union Home Minister Amit Shah is also set to hold a roadshow in Gujarat’s Vadodara on Saturday. The roadshow will take place from Runmukteshwar Mahadev mandir to Market Char Rasta in the city.
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