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At 7.45 pm, a motorcade of 10-12 cars enters Karaun area, which falls under the Godda Lok Sabha seat, as a loudspeaker blares the BJP’s “Ab ki baar, 400 paar” slogan. Seated in a white luxury car is sitting BJP MP Nishikant Dubey, who is surrounded by supporters as soon as he alights from the vehicle.
The Lok Sabha elections are winding down, with the remaining 57 seats set to vote in the seventh and final phase on June 1. Keeping the eye on the ball over the last two months in the peak of summer, the Urdu dailies have started turning their focus to June 4, when the votes will be counted and results declared. What lies in store on the other side of the D-Day for the country and its diverse people — this is the key theme being flagged by the dailies for coverage and analysis.
The first Adivasi to become the President of India, the BJP has been citing Droupadi Murmu as an example of its commitment to ensuring greater representation for women and the marginalised. President Murmu’s appointment often found a mention in BJP leaders’ speeches during the Assembly elections last year and this time too, while campaigning in Odisha, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has spoken several times about his government’s decision to nominate “Odisha’s daughter” to the country’s highest constitutional post.
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:
In Haryana, which voted in the parliamentary elections on Saturday and, crucially, will see an Assembly election later this year, caste is as entrenched a feature of politics as in the other Hindi heartland states.
In the countdown to the Lok Sabha elections in Punjab, a conversation icebreaker these days is a question, “Hawa kedi hai? (Which way is the wind blowing?)”.
It is believed to be the first republic in the world that holds a lot of importance for both Buddhists and Jains. Now Vaishali is in the middle of a hard-fought electoral battle between a strongman politician fielded by the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the sitting MP from the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) whose husband is an influential local leader said to be close to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
With the finish line of the Lok Sabha polls in sight, the sixth and penultimate phase will see 58 seats across eight states and Union Territories (UTs) vote on Saturday. By the end of this phase, a total of 486 of the 543 Lok Sabha seats will have completed polling, with just 57 seats left for the seventh phase. On Saturday, all 10 seats in Haryana, the seven seats in Delhi and the final of the five seats in Jammu and Kashmir (voting in Anantnag-Rajouri was moved from the third to the sixth phase) will finish voting.