Lok Sabha elections are right round the corner and the political parties are gearing up to fight it out till the last minute. Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi has been campaigning in Ayodhya while the party president Rahul Gandhi did the Parivartan Yatra in Haryana. Meanwhile, PM Modi raised poll fever in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Amit Shah is also set to file his nomination from Gandhinagar for Lok Sabha elections. Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley, Nitin Gadkari, and Smriti Irani are among the top BJP leaders who will be accompanying Shah for his nomination filing.
The 2019 election will see PM Modi making a bid to win a second term in the office while the Opposition will try to prevent the PM and BJP from coming to power again.
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The exercise is the largest in the world where more than 8000 contestants will fight for 543 seats of the lower house of the parliament and 10 lakh polling stations and 1.1 million electronic voting machines (EVMs) will facilitate the process. Almost 8,000 contestants will fight for 543 seats as almost 900 million voters will exercise their franchise to elect members to the 17th Lok Sabha.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi ar rally in Arunachal.
Our govt honoured your hopes. The watchman was given opportunity to put Arunachal on rail map after 7 decades of Independence. Whenever country makes achievement, don't you feel happy? But there are people who feel disheartened by India's success stories: PM Narendra Modi.
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Ahead of Amit Shah's filing of nomination from Gandhinagar LS constituency today, Union Ministers Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal, Ram Vilas Pasawn, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, Shiromani Akali Dal leader Parkash Singh Badal & others at 'Vijay Sankalp Sabha'.
- Field me from Mumbai North-East, I will defeat Congress-NCP there: Union Minister Ramdas Athawale
"There is a struggle between BJP and Shiv Sena. Shiv Sena says that if BJP fields Kirit Somaiya, then it will field its own candidate and won't support BJP. The chances are that the seat may come to us," said the Union minister and RIP chief Athawale.
Amit Shah in Gandhinagar today.
Preparations are underway at Aalo in West Siang where PM Modi will address a public rally today.
If voted to power, we will scrap the NITI Aayog: Rahul Gandhi
Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that his party will scrap NITI Aayog if they are votes to power in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
"If voted to power, we will scrap the NITI Aayog. It has served no purpose other than making marketing presentations for the PM and fudging data. We will replace it with a lean Planning Commission whose members will be renowned economists & experts with less than 100 staff," he tweeted.
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In Raipur Nitin Bhansali who had recently quit Janta Congress Chhattisgarh, joins Congress in presence of Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel.
PM Modi had gone to have biryani in Pakistan: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying that he had gone to Pakistan in 2015 to eat biryani. Responding to a query over PM Modi's remarks that people in Pakistan will applaud if Congress wins the Lok Sabha elections, Priyanka Gandhi said: "It's their view."
PM Modi's Mission Shakti" speech didn't violate Model Code of Conduct: EC
Election Commission on Friday said that PM Narendra Modi's "Mission Shakti" speech didn't violate the Model Code of Conduct (MCC). It stated: "Committee has reached to the conclusion that MCC provision regarding misuse of official mass media as contained in Para (IV) of Part VII of MCC isn't attracted in the case."
