Darjeeling is one of the Lok Sabha constituencies in West Bengal. The state has 42 parliamentary seats. The Darjeeling seat comprises 7 Assembly segments including Kalimpong, Darjeeling, Kurseong, Matigara-naxalbari, Siliguri, Phansidewa, Chopra. The constituency is a GENERAL seat. The BJP, the AITC are the main parties in the constituency. In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, Raju Bista from BJP won the seat with a margin of 413,443 votes. Raju Bista was polled 750,067 votes with a vote share of 59.00 % and defeated Amar Singh Rai from AITC who got 336,624 votes (26.51 %). In the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections, S.s.ahluwalia from BJP won the seat and was polled 488,257 votes with a vote share of 42.73%. AITC candidate Bhai Chung Bhutia got 291,018 votes (25.47 %) and was the runner-up.S.s.ahluwalia defeated Bhai Chung Bhutia by a margin of 197,239 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.
