Barrackpore is one of the Lok Sabha constituencies in West Bengal. The state has 42 parliamentary seats. The Barrackpore seat comprises 7 Assembly segments including Amdanga, Bijpur, Naihati, Bhatpara, Jagatdal, Noapara, Barrackpur. The constituency is a GENERAL seat. The BJP, the AITC are the main parties in the constituency. In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, Arjun Singh from BJP won the seat with a margin of 14,857 votes. Arjun Singh was polled 472,994 votes with a vote share of 43.00 % and defeated Dinesh Trivedi from AITC who got 458,137 votes (41.47 %). In the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections, Dinesh Trivedi from AITC won the seat and was polled 479,206 votes with a vote share of 45.53%. CPM candidate Subhashini Ali got 272,433 votes (25.88 %) and was the runner-up.Dinesh Trivedi defeated Subhashini Ali by a margin of 206,773 votes.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday addressed his first election rallies in Gujarat after the announcement of the schedule for the Lok Sabha elections 2024. The Prime Minister addressed people in two regions including Banaskantha and Sabarkantha. He attacked Congress party over fake video row.
Amidst the proliferation of fake news on social media, a video surfaced alleging that Rahul Gandhi facilitated the conversion of a Hindu temple into a Muslim establishment in Wayanad, Kerala. However, a fact check by India TV debunked this claim, revealing that the video misrepresented events.
In his first election rally in Gujarat after the poll announcement, PM Modi said as long as he and the Bharatiya Janata Party were around, reservation in jobs and education granted to SCs/STs/OBCs, and economically weaker sections will be safeguarded.
Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Union Home Minister said that Prime Minister Modi is presenting the Congress manifesto to the people in easy language and that is why the Congress has become desperate.
Police in BJP-ruled Gujarat arrested a Congress leader and an AAP functionary, and Delhi Police issued notices to 12 more people from different opposition parties as the probe into the doctored video of Union Home Minister Amit Shah's speech widened.
Lok Sabha elections 2024: Senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury’s remarks, captured in a video shared by BJP leader Shehzad Poonawalla, prompted swift reactions from both within and outside the Congress party.
In its statement, the Election Commission cited K Chandrashekar Rao’s remarks during a political gathering in Sircilla as the basis for the ban. The commission deemed these statements to be in violation of the Model Code of Conduct, as they were deemed derogatory and objectionable.
According to the poll panel, out of 21 states and union territories which went to polls in the first phase, 11 recorded a higher turnout of women voters. These are Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Jammu and Kashmir, Lakshadweep, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand and Bengal.
