Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Govinda likely to be fielded by Shiv Sena Shinde, say sources | HIGHLIGHTS

BJP on Friday announced to back NDPP candidate in Nagaland.

BJP on Friday announced support to Naga People's Front (NPF) candidate in Outer Manipur.

BJP on Friday announced their support to NPP candidates in Meghalaya (Tura and Shillong).

"Opposition parties submit Urgent Memorandum to the ECI against 'illegal', 'unconstitutional' use of the Central Agencies," said Congress leader KC Venugopal.

"BJP extend complete support to NCP (Ajit Pawar) candidate from Lakshadweep. Together NDA can and NDA will achieve victory!", said senior BJP leader Vinod Tawde.

The Election Commission of India (ECI) appoints new DMs for four districts of West Bengal.

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The Election Commission of India has appointed senior superintendents of police in five districts of Punjab, the state's Chief Electoral Officer Sibin C said on Friday.

The opposition AIADMK in its manifesto for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections promised Rs 3,000 monthly financial aid to women heads of economically backward families across the country, among other things.

The arrest of Aam Aadmi Party chief and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal is a dark day in the history of the Democracy of the country," said Telangana CM K Chandrashekhar Rao. 

Trinamool Congress leader Derek O'Brien on Friday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of behaving like a "tin-pot dictator," and said the BJP-led Centre was arresting opposition leaders in its desperation to secure win in the upcoming elections.

SBSP chief and Uttar Pradesh's Panchayati Raj Minister Om Prakash Rajbhar on Friday hit out at Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav, accusing him of “betraying” leaders from the backward classes, Dalits and minorities.

Odisha Elections 2024: The state unit of BJP announced that it will contest the upcoming Lok Sabha and the Assembly polls to contest alone and said that there will be no alliance with BJD.

Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi administers oath to DMK leader K Ponmudy as a minister in the state cabinet.

BRS chief and former Telangana CM KCR has announced two parliamentary candidates from the party. Former IPS officer RS Praveen Kumar to contest from Nagar Kurnool parliamentary seat. Former IAS officer P Venkatram Reddy, MLC to contest from the Medak parliamentary seat.

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal appeared before the media for the first time after his arrest on Friday. He said, "My life is dedicated to the nation." 

DMDK on Friday announced the names of candidates on five Lok Sabha seats as a part of an alliance with AIADMK in Tamil Nadu. READ FULL ARTICLE

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has fielded Dr Devanathan Yadav from Sivaganga, Pon V Balaganapathy from Tiruvallur and RC Paul Kanagaraj from Chennai North. The party also decided to give tickets to A Ashwathaman (Tiruvannamalai), KP Ramalingam (Namakkal), AP Muruganandam (Tiruppur), K Vasantharajan (Pollachi), VV Senthilnathan (Karur), P Karthiyayini (Chidambaram), SGM Ramesh (Nagapattinam), M Muruganandam (Thanjavur), Prof Raama Sreenivasan (Madurai), B John Pandian (Tenkasi) and Raadhika Sarathkumar (Virudhunagar).

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced 15 candidates for Tamil Nadu-Puducherry. BJP fielded Devanathan Yadav from Sivaganga seat. 

Lok Sabha polls: BSP released first list of two candidates for Chhattisgarh.

The Congress on Friday appointed former Union Minister Bhakta Charan Das as the chairman of its Odisha campaign committee. Das was also the campaign committee chairman during the 2019 elections but resigned after the party's debacle in the polls.

Govinda is likely to be fielded by Shiv Sena Shinde from Mumbai North West, sources said.

"I vehemently condemn the arrest of Arvind Kejriwal, the sitting elected Chief Minister of Delhi elected by the people. I have personally reached out to Smt Sunita Kejriwal to extend my unwavering support and solidarity," Mamata posted on X.

According to sources, Lalu Yadav's two daughters will contest Lok Sabha elections. Misa Bharti will contest from Patliputra and Rohini Acharya from Saran. Apart from these, Jaiprakash Narayan Yadav from Banka, Sudhakar Singh from Buxar, Surendra Yadav from Jehanabad and Alok Mehta from Ujiarpur will be fielded.

"Will consider if there is an offer comes from NDA,"  Apna Dal Kamarwadi's Pallavi Patel said.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) workers were detained by police as they protest against the arrest of Delhi CM & party's national convenor Arvind Kejriwal, at ITO in Delhi.

"We are concerned about his safety and security," says Delhi minister and AAP leader Atishi after CM Arvind Kejriwal's arrest by ED in liquor policy case.

"It is the first time that a sitting CM has been arrested by Central government," Atishi said.

The decade-long rivalry between the AAP led by Arvind Kejriwal and the BJP ruling at the Centre reached a crescendo on Thursday with the arrest of the Delhi chief minister by the ED in an excise policy-linked money laundering case. The tussle between the two sides began with their almost simultaneous rise to power with the BJP led by Narendra Modi receiving a massive mandate in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls and the AAP forming the government in Delhi with a historic victory a year later by winning 67 assembly seats out of 70.

The arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the alleged excise policy scam case has posed a leadership crisis question before the AAP as well as the Delhi government, with his wife Sunita Kejriwal and cabinet ministers Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj being talked about as his possible replacement.

Security was stepped up at Aam Aadmi Party office after Delhi CM and AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal was arrested by the ED in the Excice Policy Case last night and was brought to the ED Headquarters.