Lok Sabha Election 2024: Voting Underway At 8 Polling Centers In Arunachal, HM Shah To Address Poll Rally In Kerala – News18

Political parties have intensified the poll campaigns with a day remaining in the polling for phase 2 of the Lok Sabha election 2024. Wednesday marks the final day of poll campaigning before 89 Parliamentary constituencies across 13 states head to the polls on April 26.

States Going To Polls On April 26

Voting under the second phase of Lok Sabha elections on April 26 will take place in Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tripura, West Bengal and Jammu and Kashmir.

Union Home Minister and BJP leader Amit Shah will arrive in Kerala on Wednesday to participate in the BJP-led NDA’s Lok Sabha election campaign.

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Latest Updates

• BJP has given the South Mumbai ticket to its alliance partner, the Eknath Shinde faction of Shiv Sena.
• Milind Deora will be the NDA candidate from South Mumbai.
• Surat Congress leader Nilesh Kumbhani, whose nomination as Lok Sabha candidate was rejected over alleged discrepancies, is missing and can’t be reached over the phone, an NDTV report said quoting local media on Wednesday.
• The latest development comes a day after BJP candidate Mukesh Dalal cinched unopposed victory from Surat after all rival candidates withdrew from the contest.
• Amid speculations that Kumbhani may join the BJP, Congress workers protested outside his locked house with posters that read, “janata ka gaddar (people’s traitor)”.
• Repolling at eight polling stations in Arunachal Pradesh is underway.
• Due to incidents of violence at eight polling centres during the phase 1 voting of Lok Sabha and Assembly elections, repolling was scheduled for Wednesday.
• The polling process began at 6:00 and will conclude at 2:00 pm.
• Quoting party sources, a PTI report said Home Minister Amit Shah will address a poll rally at Punnapra Carmel Ground in Kerala’s Alappuzha for NDA candidate Sobha Surendran.
• Joining in on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “wealth redistribution” jibe at Congress, Union Minister Smriti Irani mocked Rahul Gandhi and his brother-in-law Robert Vadra saying “every person now needs to hide their property papers”.
• “There is one thing to worry about, whether Rahul Gandhi knows something or not, his brother-in-law knows Jagdishpur. People of Jagdishpur need to beware now. If his brother-in-law knows Jagdishpur, every village, every house, every person now needs to hide their property papers,” Irani said in Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi.

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