Darjeeling Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Results - Darjeeling is one of the Lok Sabha constituencies in West Bengal. The state has 42 parliamentary seats. The Darjeeling seat comprises 7 Assembly segments including Kalimpong, Darjeeling, Kurseong, Matigara-naxalbari, Siliguri, Phansidewa, Chopra. The constituency is a GENERAL seat. The BJP, the AITC are the main parties in the constituency. In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, Raju Bista from BJP won the seat with a margin of 413,443 votes. Raju Bista was polled 750,067 votes with a vote share of 59.00 % and defeated Amar Singh Rai from AITC who got 336,624 votes (26.51 %). In the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections, S.s.ahluwalia from BJP won the seat and was polled 488,257 votes with a vote share of 42.73%. AITC Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Results -AITC candidate Bhai Chung Bhutia got 291,018 votes (25.47 %) and was the runner-up.S.s.ahluwalia defeated Bhai Chung Bhutia by a margin of 197,239 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.
