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TopicLok Sabha 2024

Topic: Lok Sabha 2024

Covaxin maker contributed Rs 50 cr to BJP in FY23-24. Congress leaders pooled money for donations

While BJP received over Rs 2,243.9 crore in the financial year 2023-2024, Congress got Rs 280 cr. This didn't include electoral bond contributions received before SC struck down scheme.

PDP announces candidates for 3 seats in Valley, Mehbooba to contest from Anantnag

Srinagar: Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti will contest the Lok Sabha polls from the Anantnag constituency, the party announced on Sunday as it...

MK Stalin release DMK manifesto, calls for Governor to be appointed in consultation with state CM

MK Stalin release DMK manifesto, calls for Governor to be appointed in consultation with state CM

TMC declares candidates for all 42 LS seats in West Bengal, fields Yusuf Pathan from Baharampur

The TMC also renominated expelled Lok Sabha MP Mahua Moitra from Krishnanagar seat for the second consecutive term.

Election Commissioner Arun Goel resigns ahead of Lok Sabha polls

Three-member EC panel now comprises only CEC Rajiv Kumar, following retirement of Anup Pandey in February and resignation of Arun Goel, who was due to retire in 2027.

SubscriberWrites: North vs South — Opposition’s Answer to the Electoral Rout, to Maintain its Political Clout

The North vs South bifurcation has plagued India since long, but with Congress vociferously positioning itself as the 'natural choice of the South', the belief has further deepened.

What prompted SP to seal an alliance with Congress in UP & MP for Lok Sabha polls

SP to contest in 63 seats & Congress in 17 in UP. Alliance will give SP an advantage in Muslim-dominated seats in the state. SP will also get one seat in MP as part of seat-sharing deal.

Zero tolerance: ECI tells political parties, candidates not to involve children in poll campaign

Top leaders of both Congress and BJP have been accused of “misusing” children for political campaigns.

Jay Panda gets UP, Vinod Tawde gets Bihar as BJP promotes new faces as poll managers for 2024

Veteran poll managers Dharmendra Pradhan, Bhupendra Yadav missing from list of in-charges & co-in-charges. In-charges not named in Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Delhi & Maharashtra.

Kharge to be ‘INDIA chairperson’, Nitish ‘withdraws’ from convener race citing ‘lack of consensus’

Bihar CM & JD (U) president Nitish Kumar is learnt to have said he would only consider convener’s post when there’s consensus. He also insisted that a Congress leader be alliance chair. 

On Camera

There’s a method in Trump’s Pakistan romance. It’s all about Gulf security

Like Turkey and Egypt, Pakistan is one of a handful of powers with the human resources and infrastructure to help secure the Persian Gulf as Trump’s America draws down its military presence.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Legacy of Air Chief Marshal LM Katre, the man who flew Spitfires & ushered IAF into a modern era

ACM Katre was 2nd IAF chief to die in harness. It was at a memorial lecture in his honour where IAF chief AP Singh revealed that India shot down 6 Pakistani aircraft in Op Sindoor.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.