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Polling for the first phase of Lok Sabha elections is underway on Friday in which more than 1,600 candidates, including eight Union ministers, two former chief ministers and an ex-governor will test their electoral fate.
Former Karnataka Chief Minister and ex-BJP state unit president B S Yediyurappa said he would appear before the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Monday in connection with a Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) case. On Friday, the Karnataka High Court had restrained the CID from arresting Yediyurappa in the case and directed the veteran BJP leader to appear before the agency.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee questioned the three-month long Lok Sabha Elections 2024 while praying for the "quick and complete recovery of senior Union Minister and BJP [Bharatiya Janata Party] leader Nitin Gadkari".
“Yeh lahar nahi lalkaar hai, abki baar 400 paar hai (this is not a wave but a dare, this time we will cross 400).”
The top brass of the BJP and Congress will campaign aggressively on Wednesday, the last day of campaigning for the first phase of the Lok Sabha polls to be held on April 19.
Asserting that he is a committed Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh volunteer, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has said that he believes “politics is the instrument of social and economic reform".
A former Congress stronghold and the seat of the RSS headquarters, the BJP has coasted to victory in Nagpur in the last two Lok Sabha polls with Union Minister Nitin Gadkari winning both times. But with its vote share having gone up 10 percentage points in 2019, people in the city talking about local issues such as unemployment and civic amenities, and given the caste dynamics, the Congress believes it is in with a chance this time around.
The BJP Wednesday released its second list of candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, dropping at least 28 sitting MPs while including three former Chief Ministers, nine Union Ministers, two Rajya Sabha MPs and 15 women.