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Voting for a total of 97 parliamentary constituencies across 13 states will be held on Thursday, the second phase of Lok Sabha polls 2019. Here are the key candidates who will be contesting to be the representatives of the people of the nation. 
 

A video on social media posted by Congress candidate K Sudhakaran has gone viral. The message in the video implied that sending LDF leader PK Sreemathy to parliament was a big mistake. Women from Kannur and netizens were not too impressed.

 

The complaint filed said, 'The symbol allotted to the Congress Party is only of a hand and not the National Flag. The use of the national symbol as an appendage, adjunct to the hand, is being done obviously to further the prospects of the election of candidates of the Congress Party in the Parliamentary Elections - 2019'.

Accepting the recommendation of Election Commission of India dated April 14, 2019, the President is pleased to rescind election to Vellore Parliamentary constituency, Tamil Nadu, to elect a member to Lok Sabha, stated the poll body

The Pashtun community continues to push for freedom from Pakistan. After the huge success of first ‘Pashtun Long March’ organised to protest against the killing of Pashtun activist and professor Arman Luni, the community once again held another march, ‘Pashtun Long March 2’. 

Jammu and Baramulla Lok Sabha constituencies enter polls in the first phase of the Lok Sabha election amid calls of boycott issued by separatists as well as militant groups in the Valley. Voters queue up to cast their vote in North Kashmir's Baramulla and Uri district. Voters talk about the uncertain state of Kashmir and how peace is what they want. Apart from that unemployment and infrastructural issues are also a major concern for the locals. In these two constituencies, more than 3.3 million people are to choose their parliamentary representatives from among 33 candidates. In Jammu, where 24 candidates are in the fray, the fight is mainly between the BJP’s Jugal Kishore and the Congress’ Raman Bhalla as the regional parties, National Conference (NCP) and People's Democratic Party (PDP), decided not to field their candidates to consolidate the “secular vote” against BJP. 

The Jammu parliamentary seat has 20,05,730 voters, including 9,64,834 women and 20 transgenders, officials said, adding 2,740 polling stations, including dozens near the LoC and the International Border (IB), have been set up for the polling

Amid the EVM glitches, a Jana Sena candidate reportedly threw a voting machine on the floor as the names of Assembly and Parliament constituencies were not being displayed properly.

Voting for two Lok Sabha seats in Meghalaya – Shillong and Tura will be held on April 11 and these are the voters of Umniuh Tmar village under Shella assembly constituency and Shillong parliamentary constituency in Meghalaya’s East Khasi Hills district.

Chandrababu Naidu, who was once seen as a technocrat CM, is today reduced to expressions of bile and bitterness, paranoia and petulance. Clearly the man, who is facing imminent defeat both in Parliamentary and Assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh, is rattled

Sumitra Mahajan's call to not contest in the elections from the Indore seat could be an indication that she wants to retire from electoral politics. She made this announcement in a statement released from her official letterhead as Member of Parliament 

BJP's Member of Parliament has questioned the Congress and the JD(S) as to why they are feeling jittery about the I-T raids in Karnataka.

BJP Leader and Karnataka Election Management Committee Co-Convener Rajeev Chandrasekhar spoke to MyNation and explained why the Congress as in the 2018 State election, would be rejected once again by the people of India when the results are announced for the Lok Sabha elections on March 23, 2019.

Ahead of the crucial Lok Sabha elections, Member of Parliament Rajeev Chandrasekhar has exposed the failed attempts of the Congress's actions to blind the vote

Everyone needs a little break sometime, but when these all-important representatives doze off on the job, it does make headlines and cause the public to frown. On World Sleep Day, we bring you a list of our politicians on passive duty so that you can vote for your minister of sleep