"You are not taking any interest in organisational work and election campaigning ever since the party declared Manish Jaiswal as the candidate from the Hazaribagh Lok Sabha seat. You did not even feel the need to exercise your vote. The party's image has been maligned because of your conduct
Ahead of the polling in the Puri, Sambit Patra triggered a political row with his controversial remarks, saying, "Lord Jagannath is a devotee (bhakt) of Prime Minister Narendra Modi". Later, he described the comments as a "slip of the tongue".
The fifth phase of polling for Lok Sabha polls across 49 parliamentary constituencies spread over six states and two Union Territories (UTs) on Monday saw a voter turnout of 60.09 per cent till 11:30 pm, the Election Commission (ECI) said.
Independent candidate from Rampur Lok Sabha seat, Mehmood Pracha has urged the SC to pass direction to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to immediately publish voter turnout data after the election.
To boost its preparations for Lok Sabha polls in Punjab where it is fighting all 13 seats on its own, Congress on Monday named special observers for some of the constituencies in the state for better coordination and management of elections
"Different results will appear in Madhya Pradesh as well as in the entire country. There is an undercurrent going on and shocking results will come on June 4," the Congress leader said.
The Commission will also, after the scrutiny and depending on the number and schedule of repolls, publish the updated voter turnout along with a gender-wise breakdown by May 24.
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.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday will interact with more than 25,000 women at a conference to be organized at the Sampurnanand Sanskrit University in Kashi aiming to appreciate the efforts of all women who played a vital role in PM Modi's roadshow.
BJP's Hooghly Lok Sabha candidate Locket Chatterjee expressed confidence in her party's victory in the Lok Sabha elections saying that they are getting a good response.
After Maharashtra reported a sluggish voter turnout in the fifth phase of the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Monday claimed that voters in the state were deliberately harassed at polling booths, adding that the Bharatiya Janata Party is using the El