In a blow to the BJP, a day after polling was held for eight Lok Sabha seats in western Uttar Pradesh, the party's Moradabad candidate, Kunwar Sarvesh Kumar Singh, passed away on Saturday.
In a blistering attack on the BJP a day after polling ended for three Lok Sabha seats in North Bengal, ruling TMC leader and sitting MP Abhishek Banerjee said on Saturday his party will never bow to the dictates of 'Delhi'.
Several Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leaders and hundreds of their supporters joined the BJP in presence of Union Minister and BJP Lok Sabha candidate from Sambalpur, Dharmendra Pradhan at Palasagora under Kantamal assembly constituency in Boudh district.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee campaigned for Malda North Lok Sabha candidate Prasun Banerjee on Saturday and asked what the BJP has done except causing harm to the people. She claimed that in Bengal, Congress and CPI(M) are helping the BJP.
"Akhilesh Yadav's party follows dynastic politics. So those who run dynastic politics, whose family is his politics, will naturally speak like that (against the BJP)," Baruah said.
Earlier today, after the completion of the first phase of the Lok Sabha election, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday took a dig at the Bharatiya Janata Party and said that the BJP's "400 paar" film has become a super flop on the first day itself.
The CPM candidate from Kannur Lok Sabha seat, MV Jayarajan, alleged that the Congress in Kerala is pro-BJP and claimed that the Kerala Congress chief is willing to join the BJP.
Reacting to the opposition's claims of the BJP getting extra votes in mock polls in Kasaragod, Kerala Chief Electoral Officer, Sanjay Kaul said that the EVM is a tested machine.
"We want to defeat the BJP, so we are directly contesting in 3 constituencies and indirectly participating in three other constituencies by supporting someone else," AIUDF General Secretary Aminul Islam told ANI.
Union Minister and the BJP's Lok Sabha candidate from Bikaner, Arjun Ram Meghwal, said on Friday that his party was poised to win the constituency by a significant margin.
Former Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa on Friday called on voters in Gadag-Haveri Lok Sabha constituency to come out in numbers and demonstrate their support for senior party colleague and the BJP's pick from the seat, Basavaraj Bommai.