Given the Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday conducted a roadshow in Ranchi in support of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from the Ranchi Lok Sabha constituency Sanjay Seth.
Calling them (INDIA bloc) "anti-nationals" and "anti-Ram", BJP chief JP Nadda hit out at the Congress top brass for remaining silent over the "anti" Sanatana Dharma remarks of DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin.
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said that if someone gets too much power, they tend to become arrogant.
AIUDF leader Nazrul Hasan alleged that the Congress developed no infrastructure in the North Eastern region despite being in power for more than 55 years while also attacking the BJP for not doing any work for the minorities.
BJP State President of Tamil Nadu K Annamalai will be the main speaker in the meeting, to whom hundreds of social media volunteers from Delhi are likely to listen.
Congress MP Imran Pratapgarhi said on Friday that Defence Minister Rajnath Singh who himself went from Ghaziabad to Lucknow to contest polls is now questioning Rahul Gandhi for contesting from Raebareli.
Union Minister Piyush Goyal was also present at the event. Addressing the event, he urged people to support Manoj Tiwari and said it is important to make him win so that the "forces who want to break the country" don't come to power.
Raebareli, a stronghold of the Gandhi family, was represented by her mother Sonia Gandhi since 2004 in the outgoing Lok Sabha. There was speculation earlier that Priyanka Gandhi Vadra would contest from either Amethi or Raebareli, two seats in Uttar Pradesh, which are prestige battles for th
Rahul Gandhi, who is MP from Wayanad in Kerala and is re-contesting from the seat, lost from Amethi in 2019 Lok Sabha polls to Union Minister Smriti Irani. Rahul Gandhi had won the seat, also a Gandhi family stronghold, three times in a row till 2019.
Speaking at a campaign rally at Mundagod, Shivakumar said, "BJP government is dead. It doesn't stand with the poor. Lakhs of people died during Covid due to mismanagement and now people who are vaccinated are dying, thanks to BJP's corruption in vaccination."