2019 Lok Sabha Elections  

Atishi broke down while reading the content of the pamphlet, titled ‘Atishi Marlena – Know Your Candidate’. The AAP has alleged that the pamphlet, distributed by the BJP with newspapers in the East Delhi constituency, is derogatory.
 

Of the 59 Lok Sabha seats that would go under the button in the 6th phase on May 12 spread across UP, Delhi, Bihar and MP, the BJP had won 44 in 2014 and the NDA 46.

There is just one seat out of seven in Bengal voting in the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha elections on May 6, which can assure the Trinamool of a comfortable victory. This article explains how the BJP is breathing down Mamata Banerjee’s neck in the other six.

Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee said a few local leaders in the region have become greedy but they have been identified and thrown out
 

According to sources, Yogi Adityanath is very upbeat about the EC's move
 

The decision was taken after sporadic incidents of violence and disruption marred the past phases in 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Bengal. The BJP too had complained to the EC in this regard on numerous occasions. 
 

A complete poll boycott was witnessed in various hamlets like Bugam A, B, C, D and Herpora Bugam. Brisk polling was seen at Waltengunad, Panzgamnad, Kund, Akhal and Devsar constituencies.

AAP's East Delhi candidate Atishi is heard saying in a video that only the SP-BSP coalition can fight the BJP in Uttar Pradesh, and even if its candidate is a criminal, one should vote for him.

It was alleged that Atishi had dropped 'Marlena' from her name because it was ‘Christian sounding’, which may not have been suitable in her campaign during the Lok Sabha elections.

Though Kamal Nath reiterated that Rahul Gandhi is the prime ministerial candidate of the Congress, but on the question of Rahul becoming the Prime Minister, Nath said, 'If we have the numbers.'

Bengal recorded a high voter turnout during the first two stages of polling on April 11 and 18. However, there have been numerous cases of violence already. 

The prospect of a resounding victory and second term for Narendra Modi as Prime Minister is quite bright. It wouldn’t matter so much if the Modi-Shah combine at the NDA apex were not quite so assertive and transparent in its intent to decimate the Congress in particular.

 

 

The sweets being distributed have come from a shop named 'Namo Foods'. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is often addressed as 'NaMo', but clearly, the 'Namo' on the food packets here doesn't stand for 'Narendra Modi'.

The Lok Sabha election 2019 polling starts at Bengal like many parts of India. Bengal's Cooch Behar and Northern parts like Dooars are going to polls. There has been steady queuing up from early in the morning to cast poll. Though fear looms large in those polling booths where paramilitary is not deployed. Bengal goes to poll in each of the 7 phases in an unprecedented move by EC.

The states of Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Uttarakhand, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Lakshadweep, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Telangana are voting today in a single phase.