South Goa Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Results - South Goa is one of the Lok Sabha constituencies in Goa. The state has 2 parliamentary seats. The South Goa seat comprises 20 Assembly segments including Ponda, Siroda, Marcaim, Mormugao, Vasco-da-gama, Dabolim, Cortalim, Nuvem, Curtorim, Fatorda, Margao, Benaulim, Navelim, Cuncolim, Velim, Quepem, Curchorem, Sanvordem, Sanguem, Canacona. The constituency is a GENERAL seat. The INC, the BJP are the main parties in the constituency. In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, Cosme Francisco Caitano Sardinha from INC won the seat with a margin of 9,755 votes. Cosme Francisco Caitano Sardinha was polled 201,561 votes with a vote share of 47.00 % and defeated Adv. Narendra Sawaikar from BJP who got 191,806 votes (45.16 %). In the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections, Adv. Narendra Keshav Sawaikar from BJP won the seat and was polled 198,776 votes with a vote share of 48.42%. INC Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Results -INC candidate Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco got 166,446 votes (40.55 %) and was the runner-up.Adv. Narendra Keshav Sawaikar defeated Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco by a margin of 32,330 votes.
According to the petition, the SOP stated that a technical SOP would be issued separately for necessary compliance, but it has not been done so far, raising doubts over the suitability of the testing and verification process of EVMs.
In the recently held Lok Sabha elections, the Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance secured 43 out of the state's 80 Lok Sabha seats compared to the NDA's 36, down from 64 in the 2019 polls. The BJP also lost the much-talked Faizabad seat under which Ayodha falls.
FACT CHECK: A video claiming that Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami distributed money during the 2024 Lok Sabha elections is going viral on social media. India TV's fact-check reveals that the claim is false and the video is from 2022.
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen criticized the Indian government upon his arrival in Kolkata, emphasizing the need for political open-mindedness and secularism. Sen highlighted issues such as wrongful imprisonments, economic disparities, among others.
Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury lost to TMC candidate Yusuf Pathan in Baharampur constituency by around 85,022 votes, according to the Election Commission of India data. Adhir Chowdhury secured 4,39,494 votes while Yusuf Pathan secured 5,24,516 votes.
Lok Sabha Elections 2024: According to the EC's Standard Operating Procedure, the cost submitted by manufacturers BEL and ECIL to carry out EVM "check and verification" is Rs 40,000 (plus 18 per cent GST) per set of EVM.
PM Modi visited ancient Nalanda University ruins in Bihar ahead of inaugurating the new Nalanda University campus in Rajgir. This was his first visit to state since Lok Sabha polls. Established around 1,600 years ago, the original Nalanda University is among world's first residential residential.
