Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a telephonic call to Sandeshkhali survivor Rekha Patra on Tuesday after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) named her as the candidate from Basirhat Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal.
Arun Govil, the veteran actor famed for his role as Lord Ram in the popular TV show Ramayan, will visit Uttar Pradesh's Meerut on Tuesday, days after being nominated as the BJP's candidate from Meerut, which is also his hometown.
Swaraj, a BJP candidate for the Lok Sabha elections, while speaking to ANI, hit out at the Congress, saying that the purported post on Srinate's social media shows "real mentality" of the party.
All six now disqualified Congress MLAs--Rajinder Singh Rana, Sudhir Sharma, Chaitanya Sharma, Ravi Thakur, Inder Dutt Lakhanpal and Davinder Bhutto-- had cross-voted in in the Rajya Sabha election in favour of BJP candidate Harsh Mahajan against Congress' senior leader Abhishek Mani Singh
A day after Congress Leader Supriya Shrinate shared an objectionable post against Bollywood actress and BJP candidate from Himachal Pradesh's Mandi Lok Sabha seat, Kangana Ranaut. She said she is heading to Delhi after being called upon by BJP nation president JP Nadda.
Indhiya Jananayaga Katchi (IJK) founder TR Paarivendhar filed his nomination papers on Monday as the BJP candidate from the Perambalur Lok Sabha constituency.
Former Telangana and Puducherry Governor and BJP candidate Tamilisai Soundararajan filed her candidature for the Lok Sabha elections and said that she resigned from the governor's post because she wanted to "work directly for the people of the state."
Actor-turned-politician Kangana Ranaut, who is the BJP candidate from Himachal Pradesh's Mandi district for the Lok Sabha elections on Monday, thanked BJP chief JP Nadda, MP Anurag Thakur and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the opportunity.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday fielded Arun Govil, the veteran actor famed for his role as Lord Ram in the popular TV show Ramayan, as its candidate from his hometown Meerut in Uttar Pradesh for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
The party has released the names of the candidates for the Lok Sabha seats of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, Rajasthan, Haryana, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Mizoram, Sikkim, Telangana, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh.