The Delhi Chief Electoral Officer on Tuesday said that 238 valid nominations have been accepted for the Lok Sabha polls due on May 25. The last date for withdrawal of candidature is May 9.
A unique sight was seen in Nadiad, a town located in the Kheda district of Gujarat, where a young man named Ankit Soni, who lost both his hands due to electric shock 20 years ago, cast his vote with his feet on Tuesday.
Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav, his wife and SP candidate from Mainpuri Lok Sabha Seat, Dimple Yadav cast their vote at a polling station in Uttar Pradesh's Saifai. After casting his vote, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav claimed that the ruling BJP party would face a very bad defeat as pe
The states and union territories where the elections are being held in this phase are Assam (4), Bihar (5), Chhattisgarh (7), Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (2), Goa (2), Gujarat (25), Karnataka (14), Maharashtra (11), Madhya Pradesh (8), Uttar Pradesh (10) and West Bengal (4).
Since the Model Code of Conduct came into force for the 2024 Lok Sabha election, cash and liquor worth over Rs 3.5 crore have been recovered at the check post in Telangana's sensitive border district Bhadradri Kothagudem, said police.
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has started misleading the voters with "terrible lies" after he understood that in the first two phases of the Lok Sabha election, the BJP has not done well.
Defence Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party's candidate from the Lucknow Lok Sabha seat, Rajnath Singh inaugurated his election office at Mahanagar in Lucknow on Monday and performed a havan puja there.
Shah questioned the practicality of the INDIA alliance's plan to rotate the Prime Minister's role annually, asking if this is a practical way to run a country.