Election 2024 LIVE: EC Releases Final Voter Turnout Of Phase 1 And 2; Congress' List Of 4 Candidates Out

With the third phase of the Lok Sabha Election just a week away, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday addressed election rallies in Maharashtra and Telangana.

This was the Prime Minister’s second meeting in Telangana after the poll schedule was announced by the Election Commission last month. Telangana is one of the southern states where the BJP hopes to win a significant number of seats and achieve its ambitious goal of 370 seats in the Lok Sabha polls.

Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday hit out at Congress over his fake video and said that the Opposition should fight elections on manifesto, and not fake video. Shah also said that politics has stooped to a new low under Rahul Gandhi.

Meanwhile, the BJP has requested an additional week, while the Congress has asked for 14 more days from the Election Commission to respond to notices issued to their party chiefs on complaints of model code violations.

Complaints have been filed against key leaders, including PM Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi, and Mallikarjun Kharge.

LATEST UPDATES

• The Election Commission on Tuesday released the total voter turnout date for the first and second phase of Lok Sabha elections. Phase 1 saw a voter turnout of 66.14 per cent, while Phase 2 had 66.71 per cent.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while addressing an election rally in Telangana’s Zaheerabad constituency, asserted that “as long as Modi is alive”, he would not let the quotas of Dalits, Adivasis and OBCs to be given to Muslims on the basis of religion.
• The Congress on Tuesday released a list of four candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, fielding Raj Babbar from Haryana’s Gurugram, Bhushan Patil from Mumbai North, Anand Sharma from Himachal Pradesh’s Kangra and Satpal Raizada from Hamirpur.
• An FIR was registered against senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid’s niece and Samajwadi Party leader Maria Alam Khan over her ‘vote jihad’ speech during a public meeting in Uttar Pradesh’s Farrukhabad constituency.
• The National Democratic Alliance comprising the BJP, TDP and Janasena in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday released its joint manifesto for the Lok Sabha elections. The manifesto featured ‘super six’ promises and several other welfare-centric schemes, including a promise of Rs 1,500 monthly pension to women in the age bracket of 19-59 years and 20 lakh jobs for youth.
• The Election Commission on Tuesday postponed the voting for the Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat to May 25, citing logistical issues caused by adverse weather conditions. The election was earlier scheduled to take place on May 7.
• PM Modi, while addressing a rally in Latur, said that unlike the practice during Congress regime of sending dossiers to Pakistan after the Mumbai terror attacks, the BJP-led Centre hits terrorists on their home turf.
• Yamini Yashwant Jadhav has been named as the official candidate of Shiv Sena from Mumbai South Constituency for Lok Sabha Election.
• Former Madhya Pradesh CM and BJP candidate from Vidisha Lok Sabha seat, Shivraj Singh Chouhan holds a roadshow in Begumganj.

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrote to the candidates of the third phase and requested them “to spread the word against the regressive politics of Congress and INDI alliance including their agenda to give reservations to Muslims by snatching it from SC/ST and OBC.”
• While addressing a public rally in Maharashtra’s Dharashiv, PM Modi said,” Modi works day and night to change your lives. Whereas, the INDI alliance is putting all efforts to change Modi. I want to change your lives but they want to change me.”