Lok Sabha polls top updates: Rahul Gandhi will lose from Wayanad like he lost in Amethi, says Modi
The Congress has demanded repolls in 47 stations in BJP-ruled Manipur, claiming that booths were captured and that voting for two Lok Sabha seats were rigged.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday claimed that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi would lose his Lok Sabha seat in Kerala’s Wayanad constituency in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections just as he had lost from Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi in 2019.
Later in the day, Wayanad district Congress committee secretary PM Sudhakaran on Saturday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. Two other Congress leaders from Punjab, including its national secretary Tajinder Pal Singh Bittu, also defected to the Hindutva party.
In Maharashtra, Nationalist Congress Party leader and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar said that the ongoing election is not one about family relations but rather a battle between Gandhi and Modi.
The Congress, responding to finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s remarks on Friday that the electoral bonds scheme will be brought back after wider consultations, said that the BJP wants to “continue the loot” of public money.
Here’s a look at today’s top developments:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a rally in Nanded on Saturday claimed that Congress MP from Wayanad Rahul Gandhi would lose from his current Lok Sabha constituency in Kerala and that his party would have to find another seat for him, the Hindustan Times reported. Modi said that the Congress leader had been “chased away” from Amethi by Minister of Women and Child Development and BJP...
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