Lok Sabha Election 2024 LIVE: PM Modi vows to continue fighting corruption
Lok Sabha Election 2024 LIVE: There will be seven phases to the polling, with the first one taking place on April 19.
Lok Sabha electoral 2024 LIVE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke at an electoral rally in Kotputli, Rajasthan, on Tuesday. The general election campaign is well underway. This will be the PM’s first meeting in relation to the Rajasthan Lok Sabha elections since the polls were announced. In the meantime, the All India Congress Committee (AICC) office in New Delhi will host the unveiling of the Congress’s Lok Sabha election manifesto on April 5.
The BJP has set a goal of gaining 370 seats on its own and more than 400 with partners. The party secured a legislative majority of its own in the two previous general elections (282 seats in 2014 and 303 seats in 2019). For the top position, PM Modi is also aiming for a hat-trick of victories. To increase its chances of winning elections, the Congress joined up with other opposition parties to form the INDIA alliance. In 2014 and 2019, the grand old party secured a mere 44 and 52 seats, respectively.
The Lok Sabha elections will take held in seven phases, with the first phase beginning on April 19. The Election Commission of India has announced assembly elections for Andhra Pradesh, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, and Odisha in addition to voting for the 543 Lok Sabha seats. Additionally, assembly by-polls for 26 open seats have also been announced.
On June 4, the votes will be tallied. To form the federal government, at least 272 members of the Lok Sabha must support the effort.
EC moves the DMs and SPs in Bihar's Bhojpur and Nawada.
According to sources with knowledge of the situation, the district magistrates (DM) and superintendents of police (SP) of Bhojpur and Nawada have been transferred by the Election Commission of India (ECI).
Pramod Kumar Yadav, SP of Bhojpur, and Ambrish Rahul, SP of Nawada, both IPS officers of 2017 batch, were transferred with immediate effect, as were Rajkumar, assigned as DM of Bhojpur, and Ashutosh Kumar Verma, DM of Nawada, both IAS officers of the 2010 batch.
In a letter dated April 1 and signed by secretary Sujeet Kumar Mishra, the EC requested that the chief secretary of Bihar refrain from giving them any election-related tasks until the state’s 2024 Lok Sabha election was over.
Verma assumed leadership as the DM of Nawada on July 19, 2022, whereas Rajkumar had joined as the DM of Bhojpur on May 11, 2022. By December 31, 2022, both SPs had become members of their respective districts.
UP Leaders of the BJP will address the media in forty districts and go all out against the opposition.
The goal of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Tuesday press conferences in 40 districts of Uttar Pradesh is to launch a coordinated assault on the opposition in before of the Lok Sabha elections.
The BJP has presented a plan to refute the narrative of the opposition and answer relevant queries.
For this, over thirty-six BJP leaders have been called upon.
In an effort to discredit the opposition alliance, prominent BJP officials and ministers will present a unified front against it.
Leading the charge in different districts will be Union Ministers Mahendra Nath Pandey in Varanasi, Ajay Mishra Teni in Lakhimpur, Pankaj Chaudhary in Maharajganj, Anurag Thakur in Amroha, and Moradabad, among a number of other notable individuals.
Continue your action against corruption, PM Modi
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared that he will not back down from taking on the corrupt, even in the face of accusations and threats.
He also stated that more development work has been done in Uttarakhand during the last ten years than in the fifty to sixty years before to that, as he launched his Lok Sabha campaign in the state from Rudrapur in the Udham Singh Nagar district.
“Don’t you think the corrupt ought to be put behind bars? I’m being abused and threatened by the corrupt. They can’t stop me, though. “We will keep taking action against all corrupt individuals,” Modi declared.
Following the arrests of JMM leader Hemant Soren and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, the opposition has launched a fierce attack against the ruling party, coinciding with the prime minister’s remarks.
