Today in Politics: Amit Shah and Nadda in UP, Rahul to campaign in Bihar

Leaders across party lines will continue their campaign for the final phase of the polls with Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Uttar Pradesh.

Shah will hold three public meetings in Kushinagar, Salempur and Chandauli Lok Sabha seats while BJP national president J P Nadda will be in Varanasi, where he will visit two temples, hold meetings with intellectuals and influential voters and address a handloom weavers’ convention.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will campaign in Bihar where he will hold three rallies in Patna Sahib, Pataliputra and Arrah Lok Sabha seats, all of which vote in the last phase,

Meanwhile, All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will hold two public meetings in Chamba and Shahpur.

The Supreme Court on Monday will hear a plea filed by the BJP challenging a Calcutta High Court order that had refused to interfere with a single-judge verdict restraining the party from issuing advertisements that are allegedly “violative” of the Model Code of Conduct during the Lok Sabha polls.

A vacation bench of Justices J K Maheshwari and K V Viswanathan is scheduled to hear the plea.

In context: On May 22, a division bench of the high court had said it was not inclined to entertain the appeal against the interim order passed by the single-judge bench.

The single-judge bench on May 20 had restrained the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from publishing advertisements that violated the MCC until June 4, the day the Lok Sabha poll results are scheduled to be declared.

The court had also restrained the saffron party from publishing the advertisements mentioned by the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal, in its petition claiming unverified allegations against it and its workers. “It is