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After six phases of the Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal, during which the top two contenders – the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and BJP – had their attention fixed on each other, the two have put the CPI(M) in their crosshairs for the seventh and last phase on June 1.
The Election Commission’s (EC) action against two senior IPS officers in Odisha has triggered a political slugfest, with the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) calling the action “unfortunate” and the BJP hailing it as a “historic move”.
The Lok Sabha elections so far have seen a 1.55 percentage-point decrease in turnout compared to 2019, with 65% of the constituencies seeing a dip in turnout in percentage points and 20% of them witnessing a decrease in absolute numbers of voters as well.
Hours after Phase 6 of the Lok Sabha polls closed Saturday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah spoke to Neerja Chowdhury and Raj Kamal Jha at his Krishna Menon Marg residence in New Delhi. Edited excerpts:
The country is going through a very difficult time. Slowly, and now very quickly, the country is moving towards dictatorship. They (the BJP government at the Centre) first arrested (ex-Jharkhand CM) Hemant Soren, and then me. By arresting me, they are giving a message to people of the country that if they can arrest Kejriwal in a false case, they can arrest anyone. So they should be feared, and people should do as they say. These are signs of a dictatorship. In a democracy, they should listen to people, but they are asking people to listen to them. We have to save the country from this. In a way, this is like the freedom struggle. Many people who inspire me today went to jail for long periods at the time. My going to jail is to save the country, it is not because I am corrupt. It is not because Manish Sisodia has done something wrong. Just like people went to jail for long periods for this country’s freedom, we are going to jail to save democracy and the Constitution. I have always said that I can sacrifice my life for the country. This is a part of that struggle.
FOR PURI resident Gauranga Suara, 58, the recent “slip of tongue” by BJP’s Lok Sabha candidate Sambit Patra on Lord Jagannath can never be an election issue even though he is upset over Patra’s remark.
Former Punjab minister Harminder Singh Jassi quit the Congress and joined the Bharatiya Janata party on Thursday, just ahead of the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha elections 2024. His decision to join the BJP came days before Punjab goes to the polls in Phase 7.
Opposition parties, including Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), have criticized the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the remarks made by its Puri Lok Sabha candidate, Sambit Patra, regarding ‘’, and have demanded an apology from Prime Minister Narendra Modi.