Lok Sabha Elections 2024
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the BJP's Lok Sabha election campaign in Madhya Pradesh
With a roadshow in Jabalpur on Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the BJP's Lok Sabha election campaign in Madhya Pradesh. Alongside him, state PWD minister Rakesh Singh, MP Chief Minister Mohan Yadav, and the party's Jabalpur Lok Sabha candidate, Ashish Dubey.
Madhya Pradesh's Lok Sabha election will take place in four stages on April 19, April 26, May 7, and May 13. The following seats, according to the Election Commission of India (ECI), will cast ballots on April 19: Sidhi, Shahdol, Jabalpur, Mandla, Balaghat, and Chhindwara. On April 26, voting will take place in Tikamgarh, Damoh, Khajuraho, Satna, Rewa, Hoshangabad, and Betul. In the Lok Sabha elections of 2024, voting will take place in Morena, Bhind, Gwalior, Guna, Sagar, Vidisha, Bhopal, and Rajgarh on May 7. On May 13, polling places will be conducted in Dewas, Ujjain, Mandsour, Ratlam, Dhar, Indore, Khargone, and Khandwa. A total of 29 elected legislators from Madhya Pradesh are sent to the Lok Sabha. On June 4, the votes will be tallied.
The prime minister is set to address at a public gathering in Balaghat on Tuesday.
The seats of Balaghat and Jabalpur are part of Madhya Pradesh's Mahakoshal area, which receives a large number of tribal votes.
Leaders of the Aam Aadmi Party fasted for the entire day on Sunday in protest
Leaders of the Aam Aadmi Party fasted for the entire day on Sunday in protest of Arvind Kejriwal, the party's national convener, being detained in connection with the Delhi excise policy case. The action was labeled as a "political farce" by the Bharatiya Janata Party. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi restated his claim that the Congress's Lok Sabha election platform read "like the Muslim League's manifesto."
The party said in a post on X, “Today from 10 AM onwards, the entire nation will observe a fast against the conspiratorial arrest of Arvind Kejriwal Ji….Dictatorship will lose, democracy will win.”
Gopal Rai, a minister in Delhi and an AAP official, asserted that Kejriwal's followers are taking part in the party's "samuhik upwaas," or mass fasting, both domestically and overseas. "People can support the Chief Minister of Delhi and observe the fast at home," he stated. The BJP is allegedly plotting to stop Aam Aadmi Party leader Amit Shah from running for office in the next Lok Sabha elections.
The Enforcement Directorate detained Kejriwal on March 21 in connection with a money laundering investigation involving purported anomalies in the liquor policy. Days before the first round of the Lok Sabha elections, which are scheduled to begin on April 19, the AAP chairman was placed under judicial custody and is presently being held at Delhi's Tihar Jail by a court order till April 15.
In response to the Aam Aadmi Party, the BJP also launched a campaign called "Sharab se Sheesh Mahal," or "palace from liquor". The head of the BJP's Delhi unit, Virendraa Sachdeva, stated, "People of Delhi can see Red Fort, Qutb Minar, Akshardham temple, Lotus Temple, and Kartavya Path, but they cannot see the chief minister's corruption as they cannot go inside Kejriwal's Raj Mahal." "The corruption of the Delhi government is the subject of the story 'Sharab to Sheesh,' and Arvind Kejriwal bears some of the blame."
