{"id":3286,"date":"2024-04-02T23:05:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T23:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samvadbharatnews.com\/?p=3286"},"modified":"2024-04-02T23:05:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T23:05:39","slug":"lok-sabha-polls-2024-pm-modi-says-oppn-scared-due-to-action-against-corrupt-cong-releases-list-of-star-ca-news18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samvadbharatnews.com\/?p=3286","title":{"rendered":"Lok Sabha Polls 2024: PM Modi Says Oppn Scared Due To Action Against Corrupt; Cong Releases List of Star Ca – News18"},"content":{"rendered":"

Curated By: Sanstuti Nath<\/span><\/a><\/span>
News18.com<\/span><\/a><\/span>
Last Updated: March 31, 2024, 23:07 IST<\/span>
New Delhi, India<\/span>
Lok Sabha Election 2024 Updates: <\/strong>Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Bharatiya Janata Party\u2019s poll campaign for Lok Sabha Election 2024 in Uttar Pradesh\u2019s Meerut today (March 31).\u00a0 While addressing a rally there, PM\u00a0 Modi said the BJP government made the impossible possible by building Ram Temple and scrapping Article 370. The prime minister also added that the coming 5 years will be dedicated to the empowerment of women if the BJP is voted to power.
Prime Minister Modi also lashed out at the Congress over the controversial Katchatheevu island that was handed over to Sri Lanka by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1974.
ALSO READ: How Katchatheevu Issue is Taking Spotlight Ahead of LS Polls; Why Indira Gandhi Ceded Island to Sri Lanka<\/a><\/strong>
This is the first occasion when PM Modi and RLD Chief Jayant Chaudhary shared the stage, a decade after BJP decimated RLD in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. RLD joined the BJP-led NDA in February after the PM announced the Bharat Ratna for former Prime Minister and Jayant\u2019s grandfather Chaudhary Charan Singh.
Meanwhile, Congress on Sunday released a list of its star campaigners for the Lok Sabha Elections. Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi and Ajay Rai are among its star poll campaigners.
Top leaders of the INDIA bloc on Sunday exhorted the people to defeat the BJP to save democracy and the Constitution and alleged that the opposition has been deprived of a level playing field in the Lok Sabha elections due to the government\u2019s \u201cdictatorial\u201d actions.
Coming together at the \u2018Loktantra Bachao\u2019 (Save Democracy) rally at Ramlila Maidan in the national capital, the first such show of strength by the opposition after the announcement of Lok Sabha polls, the leaders of 18 major parties slammed the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren and gave a fervent call to the alliance partners to unite in national interest.
Members of the BJP core committee in Maharashtra on Sunday held a meeting with in-charges of clusters to take stock of all 48 constituencies in the run-up to Lok Sabha elections. Notably, the BJP-led NDA has set the target of winning more than 45 seats in the state. The BJP has divided all 48 Lok Sabha constituencies into 16 clusters and entrusted senior leaders with the responsibility of managing them. They are tasked with focusing on unique issues and identifying challenges in each constituency.
BJP\u2019s Maharashtra in-charge and Rajya Sabha member Dinesh Sharma, who is a former deputy chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, also attended the meeting at the party office in south Mumbai.
Former Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Sunday took a jibe at Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda over his remarks that last time both he and his son Deepender lost the Lok Sabha polls as both had entered the poll arena. Khattar said Hooda\u2019s worry is that if he enters the contest this time too then his son will lose as he will not get the required support from him.
He expressed confidence of the BJP winning all the 10 Lok Sabha seats from the state this time too like in 2019. When asked why he does not want to fight the Lok Sabha polls, Hooda had told reporters here on Friday that his son Deepender will be contesting and the party is deciding on his candidature from Rohtak.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the INDIA bloc leaders have nothing to offer besides corruption, nepotism, and appeasement. The opposition leaders attack him when people reject them, Modi said during a virtual interaction with party workers from his home constituency of Varanasi via the \u2018NaMo\u2019 app.
During the \u2018Tiffin Baithak\u2019 programme, Modi once again attacked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his \u201cfight against Shakti\u201d remark. \u201cThe INDI alliance relies on worn-out clichs. They lack both logic and facts. These individuals have nothing else to offer besides corruption, nepotism, and appeasement. That\u2019s all they know,\u201d Modi said.
Prakash Ambedkar-led Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) on Sunday declared its second list of 11 candidates from Maharashtra for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. With this, the VBA has so far declared 20 candidates.
The 11 constituencies include Hingoli, Latur, Solapur, Madha, Satara, Dhule, Hatkanangale, Raver, Jalna, Mumbai North Central, and Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg.
Congress on Sunday slammed the Left government over the recent acquittal of three RSS activists in a case relating to the murder of a madrassa teacher inside a mosque seven years ago. Accusing the police and the prosecution of handling the case poorly, the opposition party sought to know if they were released as part of a \u201csecret agreement\u201d between the RSS and CPI(M) for the Lok Sabha polls.
Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly V D Satheesan and KPCC acting president M M Hassan urged Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who handles the Home portfolio, to explain the circumstances that led to the acquittal of the RSS activists.The government, however, made it clear that they would approach the High Court against the verdict pronounced by the Principal Sessions Court in Kasaragod yesterday.
Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) president and Rajya Sabha MP Jayant Chaudhary shared the stage with Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Sunday and showered praises on him. He said that former prime minister Chaudhary Charan Singh would not have received the Bharat Ratna had Modi not been the country\u2019s prime minister.
Prime Minister Modi launched the Lok Sabha elections campaign by addressing a rally in Meerut along with the constituents of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), in which the RLD chief also participated.
Apna Dal (Kamerawadi) on Sunday formally broke away from the opposition INDIA bloc and tied up with Asaduddin Owaisi\u2019s AIMIM to launch a joint front ahead of Lok Sabha polls.
The two opposition parties floated the PDM Nyay Morcha, calling it a front to bring justice to Pichda (backwards), Dalits and Muslims. This is similar to PDA \u2014 an acronym for Pichda, Dalit and Alpasankhyak (minorities) \u2014 coined by the former Apna Dal (K) ally Samajwadi Party.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK supremo M K Stalin on Sunday said it is only through unity that the opposition can defeat Prime Minister Narendra Modi and oust the \u201cfascist\u201d BJP to form a federal India. In his message at the INDIA bloc\u2019s rally, he said the arrest of former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal shows the BJP\u2019s \u201cgrowing desperation in the face of imminent defeat\u201d.
His message was read out by DMK leader in Rajya Sabha Tiruchi Siva, who represented the party at the rally. Siva expressed hope that the national flag would be unfurled by the leaders of the INDIA bloc at the Red Fort on this year\u2019s Independence Day.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will sound the poll bugle in Bihar on April 4 with a rally in Jamui, where voting will be held in the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections. The announcement was made by Chirag Paswan, BJP\u2019s junior alliance partner, a second-term MP from Jamui who has now shifted base, passing over the mantle to brother-in-law Arun Bharti.
In a post on X, Paswan, who heads the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas), said: \u201cIt is a matter of immense pride for our workers that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is launching his Lok Sabha campaign in Bihar from Jamui\u201d. Paswan, who will contest from Hajipur, his late father Ram Vilas Paswan\u2019s pocket borough, also shared a poster with the PM\u2019s image printed alongside that of Bharti, who is making his electoral debut.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday conducted a massive road show in Sikar Lok Sabha constituency, campaigning for the BJP candidate from the seat. Shah was accompanied by Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma and party candidate and two-time MP Swami Sumedhanand.
Shah reached Jaipur and held a meeting of party leaders from five Lok Sabha constituencies of Dausa, Karauli-Dholpur, Nagaur, Churu and Jhunjhunu before going to Sikar for the road show.
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Sunday said the ruling BJP was trying to break up the country into several pieces and urged people to not be swayed by the party\u2019s \u201cnew jumlas\u201d during the Lok Sabha polls.
Addressing an INDIA bloc rally at the Ramlila Maidan, Mann said the BJP does not want the opposition parties to unite. \u201cThese people do not want that we should sit together. Let\u2019s come together,\u201d Mann said.
Mann said the country belongs to all its 140 crore people and is no one\u2019s \u201cproperty\u201d.
Former Himachal Pradesh chief minister Jai Ram Thakur on Sunday met BJP Lok Sabha candidate from Mandi Kangana Ranaut at her home in Bhambla to discuss the election strategy.
Ranaut, a popular Hindi film actor, welcomed Thakur by presenting him with a cap at her Mandi house. Sarkaghat MLA Dilip Singh Thakur and other local BJP office bearers were also present on the occasion. Kangana kick-started her election campaign on Friday with a road show and a rally.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of trying to do \u201cmatch-fixing\u201d in the Lok Sabha polls and asserted that if the BJP wins the election through this endeavour and changes the Constitution, then the whole country would be \u201cfinished\u201d.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he has lived in poverty and \u201cthat is why Modi understands very well the sorrow of every poor, the pain of every poor, the suffering of every poor\u201d.
\u201cSo I made schemes to address every concern of the poor. We have not only empowered the poor, but we have also given them back their self-respect,\u201d Modi said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that the people have only seen a \u201ctrailer\u201d of development and his government was preparing the roadmap for the next five years.
\u201cOur government has already started preparations for the third term. We are making a roadmap for the coming five years. Work is going on rapidly on what major decisions we have to take in the first 100 days. In the last 10 years, you have seen only a trailer of development, now we have to take the country much further,\u201d he said.
The Indian National Congress (INC) on Sunday released a list of its star campaigners. Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi and Ajay Rai are among its star poll campaigners.<\/p>\n

BJP leader Agnimitra Paul on Sunday slammed RS MP Sagarika Ghose\u2019s statements supporting Arvind Kejriwal at the INDIA alliance rally.
\u201cSagarika Ghose was a journalist and once said that she wouldn\u2019t leave her profession to join politics but she is a TMC leader and MP now. It\u2019s a rule in her party that after joining them one has to support corrupts and criminals,\u201d she said.
On RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav\u2019s statement at the INDIA Alliance \u2018maha rally,\u2019 Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai says, \u201cTejashwi Yadav has become a symbol of corruption and he is not even getting tired doing scams and corruption. CBI, ED and these types of institutions are independent institutions.\u201d
\u201cHe (Tejashwi Yadav) has been in a big position and he is also a leader of RJD, does it mean that he can keep committing corruption, scams, and injustice? keep shielding culprits and the law should not reach out to him? No, the nation\u2019s law does not spare anyone,\u201d Rai said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi while addressing an election rally in UP\u2019s Meert said, \u201cI am not just probing the corrupt. I guarantee that whoever has looted the people of my country, I am returning the stolen wealth of my people to them.\u201d
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