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The Special Protection Group (SPG) that is responsible for PM Modi's security is already stationed there sanitising each and every spot the prime minister will be visiting. Sources also confirm that a cave which has not been confirmed due to security reasons is earmarked where PM Modi may meditate.
 

Terror outfits have already threatened to boycott polls. Coincidentally the 17th day of Ramzan is on May 23, and even in past militants have chosen the 17th day of Ramzan, which is also the day of the battle of Jang-e-Badr, to attack security installations in the Valley.
 

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. 

Congress leaders Siddaramaiah and Umashri stooped low in their endeavour to criticise BJP leaders. While one wondered if BJP leaders would wear sarees, the other termed BS Yeddyurappa ‘three-day sultan’.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi said, “Madhya Pradesh chief minister Bhupesh Baghelji, Chhattisgarh chief minister Hukum Singh Karadaji…”

During the Lok Sabha elections 2019, the Election Commission of India turned into the favourite punching bag for our netas. Here are five instances when the politicians lambasted the EC. 

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

Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee launched a scathing attack on BJP president Amit Shah. The Trinamool chief reportedly asked whether Shah is any God that no one can protest against him. 

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.