Lok Sabha Elections: PM Modi Says Congress Wants To Take Away Reservation And Give It Away To Muslims Based On Religion

Lok Sabha Elections: Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a rally in Gujarat’s Jamnagar on Thursday said Congress wants to take away reservation of SCs, STs and OBCs and give it away to Muslims based on religion. Earlier, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi slammed the BJP over the alleged Prajwal Revanna sex tapes row and called Revanna a ‘mass rapist’. Prajwal Revanna, a now-suspended leader of BJP-s Karnataka ally JD(S) has been in the eye of a storm over alleged leaked ‘obscene videos’ of him. In other news, Congress will likely end the suspense over its Amethi and Rae Bareli candidates on Thursday. Meanwhile, repolling was underway at a polling booth in Ajmer Lok Sabha seat of Rajasthan on Thursday. The repolling was necessitated by a misplaced voters’ register at a booth in Ajmer.

Lok Sabha Elections: PM Modi Says Congress Wants To Take Away Reservation And Give It Away To Muslims Based On Religion

Lok Sabha Elections: Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a rally in Gujarat’s Jamnagar on Thursday said Congress wants to take away reservation of SCs, STs and OBCs and give it away to Muslims based on religion. Earlier, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi slammed the BJP over the alleged Prajwal Revanna sex tapes row and called Revanna a ‘mass rapist’. Prajwal Revanna, a now-suspended leader of BJP-s Karnataka ally JD(S) has been in the eye of a storm over alleged leaked ‘obscene videos’ of him. In other news, Congress will likely end the suspense over its Amethi and Rae Bareli candidates on Thursday. Meanwhile, repolling was underway at a polling booth in Ajmer Lok Sabha seat of Rajasthan on Thursday. The repolling was necessitated by a misplaced voters’ register at a booth in Ajmer.

 2 May 2024, 06:53:15 am IST

Lok Sabha Elections: Congress Keeps Amethi, Rae Bareli Suspense On

The suspense on whether top Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra would contest the UP’s Amethi and Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seats continued, with only two days left for the nomination process to end.

Amethi and Rae Bareli are considered as traditional pocket boroughs of the Gandhi-Nehru family as its members have represented the seats for several decades.

The Amethi seat has been represented by Rahul Gandhi from 2004 and he remained the member of Parliament from the constituency for three consecutive terms till 2019 when he was defeated by BJP’s Smriti Irani.

Amid chatter that Congress was “scared” in fielding Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi, party on Wednesday said, “There is no delay. Has the BJP not announced its candidates in Raebareli? Smriti Irani is a sitting MP. Nobody is scared, discussions are ongoing, the Congress president has been authorised.”

 2 May 2024, 06:58:17 am IST

Lok Sabha Election News: EC Bars KCR For 48 Hours From Campaigning | Know Why

The Election Commission on Wednesday barred Bharat Rashtra Samithi president and former Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao from campaigning for 48 hours for his “objectionable” remarks against the Congress.

The EC said his remarks at a press conference Sircilla on April 5 were violative of the provisions of the model code of conduct and its advisories. 

 2 May 2024, 07:04:32 am IST

EVM-VVPAT: EC Revises Protocol On Storage Of Symbol Loading Units Following SC Order

Following Supreme Court directions in the EVM-VVPAT vote cross-verification matter, the Election Commission of India (ECI) designed a new protocol for handling and storage of symbol loading units

While rejecting pleas seeking complete EVM-VVPAT verification, SC on April 26 had ordered that the machines should be sealed and secured in a container and stored in a strongroom along with the EVMs at least for 45 days post the declaration of results.

In a statement on Wednesday, the apex poll body asserted all state chief electoral officers have been directed to create the necessary infrastructure and provisions to implement the new protocols for handling and storage of the symbol loading units (SLUs). READ FULL REPORT

 2 May 2024, 07:07:44 am IST

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Important Voting Days

The schedule for the Lok Sabha elections 2024 was announced by the Election Commission of India (ECI) on March 16. The voting for Lok Sabha elections 2024 is taking place in seven phases and started on April 19. The counting of votes will take place on June 4.

While voting for Phase 1 took place on April 19, and the second phase happened on April 26, polling for Phase 3 to Phase 7 will take place on: May 7, May 13, May 20, May 25, and June 1.

Phase 1/April 19 – 21 states/UTs – 102 constituencies

Phase 2/April 26 – 13 states/UTs – 88 constituencies

Phase 3/May 7 – 12 states/UTs – 12 constituencies

Phase 4/May 13 – 10 states/UTs – 96 constituencies

Phase 5/May 20 – 8 states/UTs – 49 constituencies

Phase 6/May 25 – 7 states/UTs – 57 constituencies

Phase 7/June 1 –  8 states/UTs – 57 constituencies

Lok Sabha Elections Full Schedule Here

 2 May 2024, 07:10:55 am IST

Amit Shah Shah Fake Video Case: Jharkhand Congress’s X Account Withheld

Jharkhand Congress’s X account was withheld on Wednesday by the microblogging site over an alleged ‘deepfake morphed video’ of Home Minister Amit Shah that was posted on the handle.

Jharkhand Congress president Rajesh Thakur was also summoned by Delhi Police on Wednesday in connection with its investigation into the doctored video of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, a party spokesperson said on Wednesday.

On Sunday, Delhi Police’s Special Cell registered an FIR after the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), which is under the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), filed a complaint about the doctored video of Shah where his statements indicating a commitment to abolish quota for Muslims on religious ground in Telangana were changed to make it seem that he was advocating scrapping of all reservations.

Courtesy : Outlook India

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