Politics

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal did a roadshow in support of South Delhi candidate Raghav Chadha on Thursday evening.

Accusing Congress government of peddling lies on loan waiver, Chouhan claimed he won’t accept the loan waiver unless banks issue waiver certificates to farmers.

BJP chief Amit Shah on Thursday said that the more opposition leaders hurl abuses at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the more the lotus (BJP's election symbol) will bloom.

The Madhya Pradesh CM, who was commenting on the PM's controversial remarks about Rajiv Gandhi, said that Modi was only trying to divert people's attention from the real issues.

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said PM Modi has done nothing except foreign tours, lectures and that was the reason he is seeking votes in the name of 'fake nationalism'.

In a video that is being widely circulated on social media, the BJP leader is seen telling off a reporter and saying that he should pose the question about shortage of drinking water and lack of health facilities to a local MLA or state minister.

The minister said that the government is planning to build six water dams in Punjab, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan and this step would solve the water problem enormously.

Modi was addressing his first 2019 poll rally in Delhi at the Ramlila Maidan and was accompanied by the BJP's seven Lok Sabha candidates for the national capital.

Mamata Banerjee claimed that Modi, if he retains power, will destroy the 'constitutional fabric' and no elections will be held in future.

Rakesh Kapoor, a taxi operator from Guhla Cheeka village, said political parties pay Rs 300 to each person going to the rallies, in addition to the food and alcohol if the rally is scheduled for the evening.

Digvijaya Singh, along with his wife, participated in the rituals and sought blessings of the seers who were led by Namdev Das Tyagi or Computer Baba, a self-styled god man and once a close aide of Shivraj Singh Chouhan.

Earlier, a statement from Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekar Rao had said that he would meet the DMK chief at his Chennai residence on May 13.

The statement comes amid the controversy surrounding dissent by one of the election commissioners in giving clean chit to PM Narendra Modi in at least three cases of poll code violation and one to BJP chief Amit Shah.

Nearly 8 crore voters will seal the fate of 674 candidates in the states of - Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.

The Supreme Court had on Thursday directed the EC to take a call on a plea seeking to advance the voting timing to 5am for the remaining phases of Lok Sabha election due to heat wave and Ramzan.

The Samajwadi Party chief said the next PM would be from the gathbandhan and he would be very happy if it is a woman.