Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Highlights: PoK is ours and we will take it, says Home Minister Amit Shah

JD (U) president Nitish Kumar who has of late been making news for goof-ups on Sunday wished another term as "chief minister" for Narendra Modi, who had ruled Gujarat prior to becoming the prime minister. The Bihar chief minister, made the faux pas at an election rally on the outskirts of Patna.

Taking a dig at Arvind Kejriwal, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh during an election rally in Khanna said, he had heard about "work from home" but it is the first time that he is hearing of "work from jail". "Here, AAP is the ruling party. You don't need to be told much about what kind of work it is doing," he added. 

Amid the Lok Sabha Elections 2024, Union Home Minister Amit Shah addressing a public meeting in Punjab's Ludhiana said, "Pakistan-occupied Kashmir is ours, we will take it." During the rally, he also slammed Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for making Punjab, 'ATM of corruption'. 

On Lok Sabha 2024 elections, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge said, "We are more confident than them (BJP), we are going to win, they will lose as people are against them..."

Amid the Lok Sabha Elections 2024, Delhi CM and AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal holds a roadshow in Hoshiarpur, Punjab.

Addressing a rally in Bansgaon, PM Narendra Modi said, "...Mafias have built mansions even on the government's land under Samajwadi party. 'Lekin jab se Yogi ji aaye hain, mahaul hi badal gya, mausam bhi badal gya. Hamare Yogi ji, acche acchon ki garmi utaarne me expert hain'..."

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, addressing a public meeting in Uttar Pradesh's Bansgaon, slammed the opposition for allegedly trying to change the constitution to please their vote bank. 

The record-breaking turnout in the just concluded Lok Sabha elections in all five constituencies is reflective of the new Jammu and Kashmir under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership, senior BJP leader Ravinder Raina said on Sunday. Raina, the president of Jammu and Kashmir BJP, said his party is fully prepared for the much awaited assembly elections and expressed hope that the latest trend of voter turnout, especially in Kashmir Valley, would continue in the upcoming elections which will also cover local bodies.

A BJP candidate was arrested in Odisha's Khurda district for allegedly vandalising an EVM as he had to wait in queue for a long to cast his vote because the machine malfunctioned, officials said on Sunday. Prashant Jagdev, the BJP MLA of Chilika, has been fielded this time from the Khurda assembly segment. The incident happened on Saturday at booth 114 in Bolagad block's Kaunripatna in the Begunia assembly segment where he is registered as a voter.

A voter turnout of 71 per cent was recorded in Odisha's six Lok Sabha seats and 42 assembly constituencies where polling was held simultaneously in the state's third round, an official said on Sunday. Of the 94,48,553 voters, 70.99 per cent exercised their franchise on Saturday across 10,581 booths in Sambalpur, Dhenkanal, Keonjhar, Cuttack, Bhubaneswar and Puri Lok Sabha seats, and the 42 assembly constituencies that form them.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann will hold a roadshow in Hoshiarpur at around 2:30 p.m. on Sunday.

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav will address public meetings in Uttar Pradesh's Salempur at 12:45 p.m. and Ballia at 1:50 p.m. on Sunday.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will address public meetings in Himachal Pradesh's Nahan (Shimla) at 11:45 a.m. and Una (Hamirpur) at 1:40 p.m.

BJP President J.P. Nadda will hold three public meetings in Bihar on Sunday. The BJP chief will address his first public meeting of the day at 12:15 p.m. in Jehanabad, followed by another two in Ara at 2:00 p.m. and Bihar Sharif at 4:10 p.m.

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge will also campaign in Bihar on Sunday. He will reach Patna airport at 10:00 a.m. From there, he will proceed to address a public meeting in Mohaniya of the Sasaram Lok Sabha constituency. Later, he will address another public meeting in Patna at 5:00 p.m.

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, Vikassheel Insaan Party President Mukesh Sahni and Bihar Congress President Akhilesh Singh will address a joint public meeting in Arwal at 2:55 p.m. on Sunday.

The direct contest between the BJP and AAP-Congress alliance for the seven Lok Sabha constituencies in Delhi witnessed a turnout of over 58 per cent on Saturday in the midst of the scorching summer heat. Delhi had recorded 60.52 per cent voting in the 2019 general election when the BJP had swept all the seats, routing both AAP and Congress - which have now joined hands to end the saffron party's dominance.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will campaign in Bihar and Punjab on Sunday. He will address public meetings in Bihar's Ara at 12:30 p.m., and Kaimur at 2:00 p.m. From there, he will go to Punjab to hold a public meeting in Ludhiana at 5:30 p.m.

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday charged Prime Minister Narendra Modi with heaping "insults" on Muslims by claiming that "mangalsutras" of women and quotas for deprived castes will be taken away by the INDIA bloc and given to the community. Addressing an election rally in the Karakat Lok Sabha constituency of Bihar, Owaisi, whose party is not a part of the opposition coalition, vowed to ensure that Modi did not get a third consecutive term in office, which would lead to "scaremongering in the name of Hindus and Muslims, temples and mosques".