In West Bengal, amid the last phase of Lok Sabha election 2019, campaigning took a violent turn during BJP president Amit Shah’s roadshow in Kolkata as bottles, bricks and stones were thrown freely and a bust of Bengal icon Pandit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was destroyed.
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The TRS said a “Federal Front” of regional parties suggested by its leader and Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is open to take support from the Congress to form a government at the Centre – as long as they don’t ask for leadership position in the coalition.
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Telangana chief minister and TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao called DMK chief MK Stalin to his residence, to discuss his proposal for a “Federal Front”. However, sources said Stalin was firm that the DMK would be with the UPA and urged Rao to extend TRS’s support to the Congress.
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BSP chief Mayawati assailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his remarks on Alwar gang rape. She alleged that women workers of the BJP were scared of their husbands meeting Narendra Modi fearing they might also “abandon their wives like the prime minister”.
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Voting for the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha election concluded covering 59 constituencies spread across seven states. This phase saw 63.3 per cent of eligible voters exercising their franchise, according to the Election Commission’s official Voter Turnout app at 11pm.
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Bharatiya Janata Party youth wing leader Priyanka Sharma has been arrested for posting a morphed image of West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on her Facebook account, in West Bengal.
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Just two days before the voting in Delhi for the Lok Sabha election, the Bharatiya Janata Party tweeted a video of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots including a clip of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi saying, on the riots, “When a tree falls, the earth shakes.”
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The Aam Aadmi Party candidate from Delhi East, Atishi, broke down during a news conference as her party leaders accused her BJP opponent, Gautam Gambhir, of circulating a pamphlet demeaning their candidate. Gambhir denied the accusation and challenged AAP to prove it.
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The Supreme Court rejected former BSF jawan and Samajwadi Party-Bahujan Samaj Party alliance candidate Tej Bahadur Yadav’s petition challenging the Election Commission’s decision to reject his nomination from the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency.
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The Supreme Court rejected a petition seeking directions to the Election Commission to bar Congress president Rahul Gandhi from contesting the Lok Sabha election till allegations over his citizenship were resolved.
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