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WITH 1,371 cases of rioting alone between 2019 and 2023, mostly on religious grounds, the Hazaribagh Lok Sabha seat in Jharkhand is highly polarised – a factor that is believed to have helped the BJP win the last two times here by a substantial margin.
Two weeks before the third phase of voting in the Lok Sabha elections on May 7, the top 20 advertisers on Meta platforms paid Facebook and Instagram nearly Rs 17 crore to run political advertisements. At least 30 of these advertisements, paid for by surrogate accounts, had communal undertones that primarily targeted the minority community.
For the first time, the Congress is contesting in less than 400 Lok Sabha seats in a parliamentary election. It is contesting 328 seats, 93 lower than the number it contested in 2019. Coalition imperatives are one key reason: the party has given away as many as 101 seats it contested in 2019 to its INDIA bloc partners this time.
The suspense is over — it is Rahul Gandhi, not Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who is contesting from Rae Bareli, the seat their mother Sonia Gandhi represented five times since 2004 until she entered Rajya Sabha a month ago. And it is party karyakarta Kishori Lal Sharma who will face BJP’s Smriti Irani in Amethi.
AN AUTORICKSHAW plastered with election posters stands in the middle of a busy market blaring out its message on the PA system, “Apki baar…Sunetra Pawar!”
The man at the centre of one of the biggest political scandals of Karnataka politics has never been known to mind his words — or his party JD(S).
Come to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state, which the BJP swept in the last two Lok Sabha elections, winning 26 out of 26 seats, and in which a BJP government has ruled uninterrupted since 1998, to get a glimpse of what total dominance looks like, even and especially when it is fraying at the edges. Winning all 26 seats again is not the BJP’s stated goal this time — the party is striking a bigger and bolder posture in its Gujarat showcase. It says it will win every seat here — the state goes to polls in Phase 3 on May 7 — by a margin of 5 lakh votes.
Back in the 1990s, Kota Srinivas Poojary was a regular speaker at campaign events for K Jayaprakash Hegde, canvassing for the then Janata Dal leader in the erstwhile Assembly seat of Brahmavar in Karnataka’s Udupi district. Three decades on, much has changed for the two. Poojary is now the BJP candidate from the Udupi-Chikmagalur Lok Sabha constituency, taking on Hegde for whom he once sought votes.