After a BJP worker was killed in an attack by miscreants in Nandigram, Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Thursday demanded that the Election Commission take strict action in the matter.
To encourage voter turnout, the Chief Electoral Officer has partnered with Rapido to offer free rides home after voting. Voters will also receive special coupons from Zomato and Swiggy, and various restaurants will provide discounts upon showing voting ink.
Delhi is undergoing voting in a single phase on all seven seats and will witness a fierce contest between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and INDIA bloc, comprising the AAP and Congress.
As the general elections enter their sixth or penultimate phase, the seven Lok Sabha seats in the national capital have come into focus, with the ruling BJP at the Centre eyeing another clean sweep and Aam Aadmi Party hoping to send its first Lok Sabha MP from Delhi.
Haryana's Gurgaon, which is set to go to polls in the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections on May 25, will witness the battle between Congress' Raj Babbar, who has been a three-time Lok Sabha Member of Parliament from Uttar Pradesh, and BJP's sitting MP and former Minister, Rao Inderjit Singh.
Expressing confidence of the INDIA bloc winning the Lok Sabha polls, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh has said that "the candidate of the biggest party will be the PM" as happened in 2004 and the name would be announced soon after the results.
Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) president Ajay Rai hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over inflation and 'crimes against women' in the state and said that BJP is going to lose the ongoing Lok Sabha elections "very badly".
The electoral battle in Jaunpur, has witnessed many twists and turns and has become a three-cornered fight between the BJP, the Samajwadi Party, and the BSP, which changed its candidate at the last minute.
In a letter to Singh, the Bihar BJP said, "You are contesting the Lok Sabha elections against the official candidate of the NDA. This act of yours is against the party, which has tarnished the party's image and violated party discipline. Therefore, as per the orders of the Honorable State
While BJP's sitting MP Kishan Pal who has been winning the Faridabad Lok Sabha constituency since 2014 is eyeing for a third term, both the Congress and JJP candidates are ready to challenge his dominance.
Several Bollywood celebrities exercised their franchise on Monday in the fifth phase of Lok Sabha polls that covered Mumbai and flaunted their inked fingers as a proud moment of exercising their choice in the world's largest democratic exercise.