New Delhi:
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will address two rallies in Uttar Pradesh. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah will hold multiple rallies in Uttar Pradesh. BSP chief Mayawati will address rallies in Alwar and Bharatpur. Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu will campaign for Sonia Gandhi in Raebareli. As the country goes for polls on Monday campaigning for fourth phase has already ended. Polling will begin in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, and end in Maharashtra and Odisha.
Here are the LIVE updates:
Case registered against Delhi Minister Gopal Rai on complaint of Election Commission Flying Squad, for violating model code of conduct by distributing pamphlets without getting clearance from Election Commission.
Not Manohar Parrikar's son, former MLA Siddharth Kunkolienkar gets BJP ticket for Panaji bypoll.
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Smriti Irani, BJP candidate from Amethi: I am happy that Mrs Vadra is counting the number of times I came to Amethi. Probably she is counting because she is unable to tell public where was the MP missing for 15 years.
BJD files complaint against BJP for using voice calls for campaigning a day before polls.
Atishi, AAP candidate from East Delhi Lok Sabha seat writes to Returning Officer (RO) regarding repeated violation of model code of conduct by Gautam Gambhir, BJP's candidate from East Delhi, by holding rally without permission on April 28.
Actor Sunny Deol, the BJP candidate for Punjab's Gurdaspur Lok Sabha seat, Sunday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Leader of Opposition in Bihar Assembly Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday rebuffed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's assertion of belonging to an "ati-pichhda" (most backward) caste, insisting that he saw this coming from the PM a week ago.
Mumbai: Polling parties leave with EVMs and VVPATs for their respective polling stations for the 4th phase of the Lok Sabha Elections 2019.
Odisha: BJD writes to Chief Electoral Officer, Bhubaneswar demanding to immediately stop BJP's campaigning through voice call during silent period and take action against BJP leaders and the service provider circulating these voice calls in violation of model code of conduct.
R Chowdhury, Congress on BJP MP Rajveer Singh's remark on Congress over open defecation: Are we surprised that this is standard of BJP? When PM can talk about women in Parliament and call them 'Surpanakhas', this is the yardstick by which the BJP goes. Women of the country have taken note.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Congress in Bahraich: Even today, I do not know his (PM Modi's) caste. The Opposition and the Congress leaders are only raising issues related to development. We have never made any personal remarks against him.
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Polling parties at EVM and VVPAT distribution centre in Jodhpur, Rajasthan.
#ElectionsWithNewsNation | Polling parties at EVM & VVPAT distribution centre in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. #LokSabhaElections2019
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— News Nation (@NewsNationTV) April 28, 2019
Election Commission makes arrangements to ferry specially-abled voters in Mumbai.
Maharashtra: Election Commission makes arrangements to ferry specially-abled voters in Mumbai for the fourth phase of #LokSabhaElections2019 to be held tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/1fxVrhycGD
— ANI (@ANI) April 28, 2019
Visuals from VVPAT and EVM distribution centre at Malabar Hill.
Mumbai: Visuals from VVPAT and EVM distribution centre at Malabar Hill; 17 parliamentary constituencies in the state will go to polls in the fourth phase of Lok Sabha elections tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/WAMMPjAPxV
— ANI (@ANI) April 28, 2019
Visuals from EVM and VVPAT distribution centre in Jhalawar–Baran Lok Sabha constituency.
#Rajasthan: Visuals from EVM and VVPAT distribution centre in Jhalawar–Baran Lok Sabha constituency. 13 parliamentary constituencies to vote in the fourth phase of #LokSabhaElections2019, tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/DxFknFhaz8
— ANI (@ANI) April 28, 2019
Polling parties gather at EVM distribution centre in Bolpur.
West Bengal: Polling parties gather at EVM distribution centre in Bolpur, in Birbhum district; 8 Lok Sabha constituencies to go to polls tomorrow. #LokSabhaElections2019 pic.twitter.com/BhDpwCjpb3
— ANI (@ANI) April 28, 2019
Employment, education and health, prime issues of Election, says Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
Issues are clear; employment, education & health. Nationalism is to solve problems of people. Here they don't listen to people, when they raise their issues they suppress them, it's neither democracy nor nationalism, says @priyankagandhi
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— News Nation (@NewsNationTV) April 28, 2019
Hema Malini today campaigned in Pali, Jodhpur for the BJP candidate PP Chaudhury.
Was campaigning in Pali,Jodhpur for the BJP candidate Mr PP Chaudhury. A glimpse of the rally & the massive response to the campaign. Thank you Jodhpur!🙠pic.twitter.com/cF0TeTizlC
— Hema Malini (@dreamgirlhema) April 28, 2019
A group of 50 farmers from Telangana's Nizamabad arrived in Varanasi to file their nomination as independent candidates to contest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.
BJP leader Subramanian Swamy said, "If the people of UP want me to continue fighting against corruption then TDK and her Bambino must be defeated in Raebareli and Amethi. If either of them wins, it will dishearten people like me who are striving hard to create a clean India." TDK and Bambino are references to Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.
ECI dismisses TMC charges that BJP’s party name appears on EVM ballot papers next to symbol.
Union Minister Harsh Vardhan who is contesting from Chandni Chowk Lok Sabha seat, held meetings with the residents of the Kishanganj railway colony.
All EVMs and VVPATs will be dispatched from the strong room today. Security forces and police force deployed in adequate numbers.We won't face any law&order situation; 13 parliamentary constituencies in the state go to polls tommorow, says IS Rao,District Megistrate, Baran, Jhalawar on poll preparedness.
Gautam Gambhir, BJP on AAP MP candidate Atishi's allegations of him holding 2 voter-ID cards: When you don't have a vision and have done nothing in the last 4.5 years, you make such allegations, EC will decide this. When you have a vision you don't do such negative politics.
Jhansi: Polling parties leave for their respective polling stations ahead of fourth phase of general elections tomorrow.
Jhansi: Polling parties leave for their respective polling stations ahead of fourth phase of general elections tomorrow. Polling will be held in 13 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/T5Vwm47xtP
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) April 28, 2019
Chhindwara: Polling parties collect EVMs and VVPATs.
Chhindwara: Polling parties collect EVMs and VVPATs and leave for their respective polling stations for the 4th phase of the #LokSabhaElections2019 #MadhyaPradesh pic.twitter.com/I6z1kEkJix
— ANI (@ANI) April 28, 2019
TMC writes to Election Commission of India over wrestler The Great Khali campaigning for BJP's Jadavpur MP candidate,Anupam Hazra on April 26. The letter states, 'He (Khali) holds US citizenship, therefore, a foreigner shouldn't be allowed to influence the minds of Indian electors'.
Heavy deployments of security forces ahead of second phase of polls in Anantnag Lok Sabha seat of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday.
DMK's former Rajya Sabha member Vasanthi Stanley, 56, has died after a brief illness.
RP Singh, a burger vendor is contesting as an independent from the Ludhiana LS seat.
Punjab: RP Singh, a burger vendor is contesting as an independent from the Ludhiana LS seat. He says, "If I'm elected I'll take on the education mafia & ensure good education for poor people. I'm unable to put up big posters, I'm only campaigning on my scooter but I'm confident." pic.twitter.com/x8l6qJl4JS
— ANI (@ANI) April 28, 2019
Congress is weakening the Opposition across the country, says Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia. "Not only in Delhi but across the country, the Congress is weakening the Opposition. If the BJP wins any seat in Delhi or outside it, the Congress should be blamed," he said when asked if the AAP feels the failed alliance talks with the Congress could help the BJP in winning seats in the capital.
Poll officer identified as Purna Chandra Panda died at a polling station in Ajodhya village under Nilagiri assembly segment in Balasore.
Lok Janshakti Party leader and Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan will hold election rallies in the two Uttar Pradesh constituencies today. "Will be campaigning for Smriti Irani and Dinesh Pratap Singh in Amethi and Rae Bareli on April 28," Paswan tweeted.
Union Minister and BJP leader Uma Bharti on being asked if Pragya Singh Thakur will take her place in Madhya Pradesh politics: She is a great saint, don't compare me with her, I'm just an ordinary and foolish creature.
Majeed Memon, NCP on Shatrughan Sinha's comment "from Mahatma Gandhi to Muhammad Ali Jinnah, all part of Congress parivar": He (Jinnah) made a big contribution to the freedom struggle, just because he was a Muslim you are offended and are calling Shatrughan Sinha anti-national.
Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu will campaign for Sonia Gandhi in Raebareli today.
BSP chief Mayawati will address rallies in Alwar and Bharatpur.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah will hold multiple rallies in Uttar Pradesh today.
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will address two rallies in Uttar Pradesh today.
Congress General Secretary for UP West and Guna MP Jyotiraditya Scindia, plays a Dhol in Guna's Bamori.
#WATCH Madhya Pradesh: Congress General Secretary for UP West and Guna MP Jyotiraditya Scindia, plays a Dhol with members of tribal community in Guna's Bamori. (27.04.2019) pic.twitter.com/5wKwcbibaf
— ANI (@ANI) April 27, 2019