Lok Sabha elections 2024 : BJP releases 8th list of candidates from Odisha, Punjab and West Bengal

NCP announced Sunetra Pawar as candidate from Baramati constituency for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Sunetra Pawar will contest against Supriya Sule who is the candidate for NCP (SCP).

On PM Narendra Modi's rally in Meerut on March 31,  BJP National Vice President Baijayant Jay Panda said, "PM Modi will have a grand rally. We will do a clean sweep in Uttar Pradesh. Today, we will have a meeting regarding the preparations for elections with our senior leaders..."

Union Home minister Amit Shah will visit Rajasthan March 31. Shah will hold a meeting of Lok Sabha core committee meeting at 2pm and will then hold a road show in the capital city of Jaipur at 4pm. 

Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren’s wife Kalpana Soren met Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s wife Sunita kejriwal at Kejriwal’s residence in New Delhi. 

BJP president JP Nadda announces 27-member Election Manifesto Committee headed by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh. 

"The BJP 'washing machine' uses BJP brand of detergent, it is clear to the people that selective targeting of the opposition is taking place. People who are afraid of BJP are entering the BJP 'washing machine' to get the clean chit," says TMC leader Ritabrata Banerjee. 
 

AAP leader Somnath Bharati said, “BJP, in fear of losing, has turned Enforcement Directorate into ‘Entertainment Directorate'. They are gathering money through it for election campaign and asking them to arrest opposition leaders." 

Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami reviews the preparations for PM Modi's election campaign rally to be held in Rudrapur on April 2.
 

Union Minister Rajeev Chandrashekhar said, "It's not just an election for me but a mission where I can put Thiruvananthapuram at a path that it can move forward and starts gaining benefits of schemes of PM Modi's governance... This election is about the performance of the sitting MP and about which govt has delivered. Opposition parties don't want to discuss performance, the economy but everything else..."
 

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday filed replies to two revisions of Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal challenging the issuance of summons on complaints filed by the central agency in the excise policy case. 

The Congress released a list of 27-star campaigners on Saturday for Jammu and Kashmir, including party president Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, among others.

The Congress is likely to release its manifesto for the Lok Sabha elections on April 5 in the presence of top leaders, including party chief Mallikarjun Kharge and former party presidents Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, PTI reported citing sources.

Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a charge sheet in alleged Delhi Jal Board money laundering case. It is a case of alleged corruption in tendering of flow meter procurement.

Archana Patil Chakurkar, daughter-in-law of senior Congress leader and former Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil, joins Bharatiya Janata Party, in the presence of Maharashtra Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis, in Mumbai.

Senior Congress MLA Shamanur Shivashankarappa landed in a controversy with his remarks on the candidate nominated by the BJP for the Davangere parliamentary seat in Karnataka.

BJP nominated the wife of incumbent MP and former union minister GM Siddeshwara Gayathri Siddeshwara for Karnataka's Davangere parliamentary seat.

While addressing a party workers' meeting, Shivashankarappa criticised the qualifications of Siddeshwara and claimed that she does not have the ability to effectively address public issues. 

"As you all know she wanted to give lotus flower to Modi by winning the elections. First, let them understand the problems of Davangere. We (Congress) have done developmental work in the region. It's one thing to know how to talk, but they know only to cook in the kitchen, the opposition party doesn't have the strength to talk in front of the public," said Shivashankarappa.

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India's opposition INDIA bloc to hold massive rally at Delhi's Ramlila Maidan tomorrow. 

Congress leader Jairam Ramesh says, "There are 4-5 issues over which this rally has been organised. There is Kejriwal ji, we should also not forget Hemant Soren and several other people who have been targeted. Tomorrow's rally should be seen from the perspective of democracy, not as a rally by one party. Jharkhand CM Champai Soren will be present at the rally tomorrow."

- Congress nominates KV Gowtham to contest from 20-Kolar(SC) Lok Sabha constituency in Karnataka.

- Shiv Sena UBT through 'Saamna' issues lists of 40 star campaigners including Uddhav Thackeray and Aaditya Thackeray for Lok Sabha elections in Maharashtra.

A complaint was filed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with the Election Commission against Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s son Yathindra Siddaramaiah for making use of “abusive words” in his remarks for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah.

The Congress leader in a recent spat called Shah a ‘goonda’ and ‘rowdy,’ and said that the prime minister has an association with such individuals. 

Summons were issued to Delhi Minister Kailash Gahlot by the Enforcement Directorate in the ongoing investigation in a money-laundering case linked to the now-scrapped excise policy. 

While responding to the notices sent by the IT department worth Rs 18000 million, the Congress party announced that they would stage a nationwide protest. 

Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal has asked all state branches to hold protests at the headquarters of PCC (Pradesh Congress Committee) and district Congress Committees.

"Eight years of Income Tax returns of the INC have been reopened on baseless, manufactured grounds to levy patently illegal Income Tax demand orders totalling thousands of crores of rupees. This is nothing but a blatant and naked attack on the very principals of democracy," said Venugopal, in a letter addressed to party workers.