While blaming Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and her Trinamool Congress for the violence, arson and vandalism at his roadshow in Kolkata a day before, BJP president Amit Shah said, “The TMC workers vandalised Ishwar Chandra Vidysagar’s statue.”
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Amid souring ties with Aam Aadmi Party, Delhi legislator Alka Lamba, on Thursday, announced that she would not campaign for her party in the ongoing Lok Sabha Election. She said that she has been "kept away" from the party's official functions.
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Following his father’s footsteps, Abdullah Azam Khan, son of Samajwadi Party’s Rampur candidate Mohammed Azam Khan, mocked the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate and actress Jaya Prada’s Bollywood past and called her “Anarkali”.
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Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Uma Bharati said the country will “judge” Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as the wife of a “thief”.
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BJP MLA from Fatepur, Ramesh Katara, in at a public rally in Gujarat’s Dahod Lok Sabha constituency, was caught in a video threatening voters that Narendra Modi would come to know about the number of votes for BJP as he had installed CCTV cameras across all polling stations.
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On launching Gujarat’s Bharatiya Janata Party’s electoral campaign – Vijay Sankalp Sammelan – in Mehsana, the state chief minister, Vijay Rupani, said if Congress wins the Lok Sabha election, there will be “Diwali-like celebrations in Pakistan”.
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Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said she came out of the comfort of her family to join politics because India and its Constitution were “in danger”.
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Shivnath Thukral, Facebook’s public policy director in India and South Asia, asserted that no political advertisement will be run without a disclaimer with the social-media giant’s ad-consultancy tool. This is to prevent spread of misinformation during the Lok Sabha election.
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Anna Hazare, who is sitting on a hunger strike at his village Ralegan Siddhi over the issue of non-appointment of Lokpal by the central government, said the BJP came to power “using Lokpal agitation” and now seems to have developed an “allergy” towards the term.
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During an election campaign in Telangana, on Sunday, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath, said the AIMIM chief and Hyderabad MP, Asaduddin Owaisi, will have to flee from Hyderabad if the BJP comes to power in the state.
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