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Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Election Commission bans AAP's slogan ‘Jail ke jawab mein hum vote denge’, alleges Atishi
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Atishi on Sunday alleged that the Election Commission (EC) has imposed a ban on the party's Lok Sabha poll campaign song ‘Jail ke jawab mein hum vote denge’.
Today in Politics: Rahul to step up Cong Odisha campaign on Odia icon anniv; Sunita Kejriwal roadshow in West Delhi
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is set to step up his party’s Odisha campaign Sunday, the birth anniversary of Madhusudan Das, known as the epitome of “Odia asmita and swabhiman (Odia pride and self-esteem)”.
Venkaiah Naidu: ‘Party hopping a disturbing trend … first you praise new leader, then you abuse previous leader’
Criticising leaders who quit their parties to join and fight elections for others, former Vice President of India M Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday said it was a “disturbing trend” and called for the strengthening of the anti-defection law. Naidu also took strong exception to the parties announcing freebies before elections and said that “only education and health should be free”.
LJP (Ram Vilas)’s 25-year-old debutant Shambhavi: ‘I want to become voice of Dalit women… like Chirag bhaiyya’s focus on Bihar and Biharis’
Shambhavi, the 25-year-old Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) candidate from the Samastipur Lok Sabha constituency, comes from a political family. She studied sociology at Lady Shri Ram (LSR) College, New Delhi, and Delhi School of Economics (DSE), and appeared for the UPSC exam once. Likely to be pitted against her in Samastipur is Sunny Hazari of the Congress, whose father Maheshwar Hazari is a minister in the Nitish Kumar government, just like her father Ashok Choudhary. Both Hazari and Choudhary are Janata Dal (United) leaders. The daughter-in-law of former IPS officer Kishore Kunal, Shambhavi tells The Indian Express that she believes politics is a field where she can represent other Dalit women like her who do not have the privilege to join politics. Excerpts from the interview:
Mint Explainer: What does Muizzu’s election win mean for India-Maldives ties?
Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu won a crushing victory in the country’s parliamentary elections on Sunday. His party, the pro-China People’s National Congress, won 66 of the first 86 seats declared by the elections commission, enough for a super-majority. To form a government, a political party or coalition needs a majority in the 93-member legislative body.
US national security adviser Jake Sullivan postpones India visit over Middle East tensions
US national security adviser Jake Sullivan has postponed his India visit for a second time this year due to the ongoing crisis in the Middle East.
From the Urdu Press: ‘Congress’s prudent new strategy against BJP’, ‘MVA steals march over Mahayuti in seat-sharing deal’
With barely three days left for the first round of the seven-phase Lok Sabha elections to get underway, campaigning by all the contenders in the fray has reached a crescendo. The Urdu dailies have kept their focus on the poll coverage from across the country, highlighting that the outcome of the direct face-offs between the incumbent BJP and the Congress, the largest player of the Opposition INDIA bloc, in about 190 seats will essentially shape the narrative of the 2024 grand battle.