The electoral battle to win the Lok Sabha elections is in full swing with all the political parties aggressively campaigning across the country. The 2019 election will see Prime Minister Narendra 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.
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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Catch all the developments related to the elections at one place. Here are the UPDATES:-
- Governance in reverse gear when Congress is in power: Modi
"Governance goes into reverse gear when the Congress and its allies are in power. Terrorism, prices, violence, corruption, black money rise when Congress is in power; the country's prosperity, its credibility, the morale of the armed forces, respect for honesty decline," he said.
- Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (file pic) to accompany Congress President Rahul Gandhi to Wayanad in Kerala for filing of his nomination from the parliamentary constituency.
- Even tokenism has not been done on farm loan waiver in states where Cong is in power: Jaitley on Congress manifesto
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- Whenever P Chidambaram writes something, the devil is always in the detail: Arun Jaitley on Congress manifesto
- Congress failed to mention plight of Kashmiri Pandits in its manifesto: Jaitley on Congress manifesto
- Ingratitude is the biggest sin that any political party can commit: Arun Jaitley on Congress manifesto
- It appears some points in the manifesto have been drafted by Congress president's 'tukde tukde gang' friends when it deals with J&K, national security: Jaitley
- Some of the ideas in Congress manifesto are positively dangerous. A party which promises to repeal draconian laws like sedition doesn't deserve even a single vote: Arun Jaitley
- Issues in these polls are unemployment, farmer distress, corruption and NYAY: Rahul Gandhi
- In the last 5 years, BJP govt has spread hate, divisiveness; Congress will work towards uniting India, bringing people together: Rahul Gandhi
- NYAY is our flagship idea, 25 crore people are going to be directly affected by NYAY: Rahul Gandhi
-Cong will allocate 6 per cent of GDP to education, will strengthen govt hospitals and give high-quality healthcare access to poor: Rahul Gandhi
- There should be a separate budget for farmers. If a farmer can't repay a loan, it will be treated as a civil offence instead of a criminal offence: Rahul Gandhi
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-I asked how much can the Govt of India put in the bank accounts of the poor of India. They gave me the number of Rs 72,000: Rahul Gandhi
- Jobs and farmer distress key issues, 22 lakh government jobs lying vacant which we will fill up by March 2020: Rahul Gandhi
- "Don't want a single thing in this manifesto that is a life because we have been hearing a large number of lies spoken daily by the Prime Minister," says Rahul Gandhi
- I gave instructions to Gowda and Chidambaram that the manifesto should not be made in closed rooms; it has to be truthful. They've delivered on both those promises, they've delivered the voice of the people, says Rahul Gandhi at the launch of Congress manifesto.
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- 5 main themes in Congress manifesto, first among them is minimum income scheme NYAY under which Rs 72,000 will be given to poorest: Rahul Gandhi
- The Congress party on Tuesday released the party's manifesto for the Lok Sabha elections of 2019. The manifesto panel was headed by former Union finance minister, P Chidambaram.
- Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev has said that mood of people of the nation is tilted towards giving Narendra Modi a second term as the Prime Minister's leadership abilities dwarfed those of other Opposition leaders.
"This time also, we cannot see an alternative to Prime Minister Modi... 'Chowkidar' is not a thief, he is pure, the people of the country are saying this. Nobody in the world can say that Prime Minister Modi has robbed anything," Ramdev told ANI.
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- BSP MLA Maulana Jameel joined the Congress ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.
Talking to reporters Muzaffarnagar, Jameel said he left the Mayawati-led outfit as he felt only Congress could defeat the BJP in the coming elections.
- Congress on Monday demanded an apology from Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his "condemnable and divisive" statement that hurt the sentiments of people in Wayanad in Kerala.
In a press statement, Congress General Secretary K C Venugopal said, "by alleging that Rahul Gandhi is contesting Wayanad seat on account of there being residents of a particular religion living there, is a disgrace to the high office of Prime Minister is holding."
