2019 Lok Sabha  

Over 10.01 crore voters are eligible to exercise their franchise. The Election Commission has set up more than 1.12 lakh polling stations and has deployed security personnel for smooth conduct of polls

The burqa row didn't erupt for the first time this election. This April the BJP candidate from Amroha sounded an alert bell. Kanwar Singh Tanwar, BJP's sitting MP has also said the burqa-clad voters were casting fake votes.

On the final day of campaigning that ended with twin press conferences between Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi, the Congress president scored a massive self-goal by claiming the party has its own set of journalists

According to Shah, the party had put in place 161 call centres across India — a rough average of one every two Lok Sabha seats — which reached out to 24 crore and 81 lakh beneficiaries of Centre as well of state government schemes

The combined caste and Muslim votes of the SP-BSP combination based on the numerical strength of Muslims, Yadavs and Dalits is daunting. While there are four lakh Yadav voters in the constituency, another four are Dalits, and around 1.5 lakh are Muslim

Expressing his support for Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, Kejriwal said he hoped the people of the state would teach PM Modi a lesson in the Lok Sabha poll.

Trinamool Congress cadres allegedly attacked Samik Bhattacharya who is the BJP candidate from Dum Dum constituency, near Kolkata. His car was targeted near Nager Bazar area. Dum Dum goes to poll on the last phase amid extreme political faceoff between BJP and TMC. 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed electorates in Uttar Pradesh's Mau, but his target was Mamata Banerjee. He spoke about the recent violence in Bengal and the clashes at Kolkata's Vidyasagar college on Tuesday

The seats going to the polls are 13 each in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, nine in West Bengal, eight each in Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, four in Himachal Pradesh, three in Jharkhand and one in Chandigarh

Rahul Gandhi had said in 2016: “Our soldiers who have shed their blood in Jammu and Kashmir, who have conducted the surgical strikes, you [PM Modi] are hiding behind their blood. You are cashing in on their sacrifice…”

The BJP has been systematic in its approach, and was never in a hurry in the eastern zone, say longtime political watchers. It began earnestly in the late 1990s, and it went about its task with the sincerity of a monk, says a Bengali journalist

Bagga along with many BJP leaders like Hans Raj Hans and Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma are in Kolkata to add a push to its campaign in the last leg of the election

Sonowal said that Mamata Didi has no right to rule the state and the President of India should immediately dismiss the government. He also appealed to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to take all possible measures to ensure that there is a peaceful election in West Bengal.

According to reports, after Amit Shah left, the clashes turned violent in and around the Calcutta University. Trouble started after the Trinamool-backed student union leaders tried to wave black flag at Shah.
 

With politicians like Mamata Banerjee too eager to misuse ‘reasonable restrictions’ clause in Article 19, court judgments have often undermined freedom of speech and expression by playing ‘safe’