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Hegde also lashed out at people who criticised him after he sought votes after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and called them "uncultured".

The seven constituencies in Delhi are voting alongside 14 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 10 in Haryana, eights each in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal, and four in Jharkhand

According to the investigating agency, ED had seized asset worth Rs 1.46 crore in the case of holding foreign asset in UAE in contravention of Section 4 of FEMA,1999. Two properties one from Vasant Kunj, Delhi and one property in Haryana have been attached by ED.
 

Union minister Prakash Javadekar has announced that students, who missed an opportunity to take up the NEET exam, would be given another chance. This after as many as 500 students travelling from north Karnataka in the Hampi express couldn't make it in time.

After as many as 500 couldn’t take up the NEET exam due to the late arrival of the Hampi express, Union minister Sadananda Gowda has
written to Prakash Javadekar requesting him to give the students an opportunity to take up the exam

Union minister Babul Supriyo caught an official of the election commission away from his desk during his visits to polling booths.

Union Minister and BJP Lok Sabha MP candidate from Amethi Smriti Irani turned a fire fighter on Sunday. A huge fire broke out when she was campaigning in Amethi. She went straight to the fire-affected fields in Purab Dwara village where she not only met the locals whose houses were affected but also took part is arranging water to douse the fire. Amethi goes to polls on May 6 where Irani is fighting Congress president Rahul Gandhi.

ANI reported that Banerjee claimed that Prime Minister Modi’s Bengal visits began as he needs votes this election. She was speaking at Asansol, the Lok Sabha constituency of Union Minister Babul Supriyo where Modi campaigned recently.

YS Chowdary, a Rajya Sabha MP of the TDP, is considered close to TDP chief and Andhra CM Naidu. Chowdary was MoS in the Union Cabinet headed by PM Narendra Modi before Naidu quit the NDA early last year over the Centre's refusal to grant special status to Andhra Pradesh.

Top Bharatiya Janata Party leaders, including Union ministers Sushma Swaraj, Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal and Nirmala Sitharaman, as well as BJP president Amit Shah and chief ministers of BJP-ruled states are expected to accompany him.

Pawar was addressing a campaign rally at Daund in Baramati Lok Sabha constituency from where his daughter Supriya Sule is seeking re-election. "Modi says he came into politics holding my finger. But now I am terribly afraid, because what this man will do, nobody knows," the former Union minister said.

Since the last panchayat election that was marred by violence -- with some incidents caught on camera -- and intimidation as brazen as one faced by even Union ministers, three BJP workers have mysteriously been found dead and hanging from a tree. Though Trinamool was quick to distance itself from these cases, calling them cases of "suicide", BJP cried murder.
 

Some of the popular candidates up for election today are Union ministers Jitendra Singh, Jual Oram, Sadananda Gowda and Pon Radhakrishnan. Former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda and former ministers Dayanidhi Maran and A Raja, and DMK leader Kanimozhi are also among today's candidates. Actor-turned-politician Hema Malini is the star candidate from Mathura in Uttar Pradesh.

While addressing a gathering in Karnataka's Karwar, Union minister Anant Kumar Hegde said that after phase two elections, people would go in search of Anand Asnotikar in Uttara Kannada, which is scheduled to vote on April 23

Nirmala Sitharaman reached Karwar, Karnataka to campaign for Union minister Anant Kumar Hegde. He is contesting from the Uttara Kannada Lok Sabha constituency for the seventh time.