Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Lalu in Delhi, Pawar in Mumbai tries to sort our seat sharing with Congress

RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav on Monday reached Delhi to meet Congress leaders and discuss seat-sharing.

Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma met Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio along with party leaders and MLAs to extend support to the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP).

Tamil Nadu: Indhiya Jananayaga Katchi (IJK) founder TR Paarivendhar filed his nomination papers as the BJP candidate from the Perambalur Lok Sabha constituency.

"Now, we will celebrate Holi only after Arvind Kejriwal is released from jail," said AAP leader Saurabh Bharadwaj.

Kalyana Rajya Pragathi Paksha leader G Janardhana Reddy merges his party with BJP. He said, "In the interest of the nation and to support PM Modi to become a third-time Prime Minister, I have joined BJP. I have come back to my home...I will carry out whatever responsibility the party gives me. I will campaign for everyone..."

Sharad Pawar and Uddhav Thackeray are going to hold an important meeting regarding seat sharing. Let us tell you that this meeting is going to be held at Matoshree at 5 pm. Apart from Sanjay Raut, Jayant Patil will also participate in this meeting. The list of 15-16 candidates of Uddhav group will be released on March 26. Before that, Before that, the seats on which there is a dispute between the two groups will be discussed in this meeting. 

(Input from Atul Singh)

Former Karnataka Minister and mining baron G Janardhana Reddy on Monday rejoined the BJP ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. The Gangavati MLA, who is an accused in an illegal mining case, had formed the 'Kalyana Rajya Pragati Paksha' (KRPP) ahead of the state assembly polls last year, snapping his two-decade-old association with the BJP.

"I extend my wishes to the entire nation on #Holi, and I urge everyone to maintain brotherhood," said Samajwadi Party leader Shivpal Singh Yadav.

On Lok Sabha elections 2024, he said, "Everyone is tired of the BJP because of their corruption and the price hike. The BJP's promises were fake, and that's why people will make Samajwadi Party win in Uttar Pradesh."

Tripura CM Manik Saha holds door-to-door campaign in Bamutia ahead of the Lok Sabha elections 2024.

NDA ally Chirag Paswan said his Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) will declare its candidates for the Lok Sabha polls immediately after Holi. Paswan, whose party has got five of the 40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar, also asserted he was "ready for any challenge" that came from his estranged uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras. (PTI)

Odisha: BJP National spokesperson & party's Lok Sabha candidate from Puri constituency, Sambit Patra offers prayer at Shree Jagannath Temple, in Puri.

Sambit Patra says, "I thanked Lord Jagannath on this very auspicious day of Holi that he has called me in his service. I thanked PM Modi, HM Amit Shah, party's president JP Nadda, the members of CEC and the entire leadership of the BJP that they have again shown faith in me. Last time I missed it by a minute margin of 11,000 votes but what I have learnt in the last 5 years from PM Modi and his hard work, I had tried that in Puri. I appeal to the people that it's not an election to elect Sambit Patra, but PM Modi, development and to take the nation forward..."

Union Minister & BJP Lok Sabha candidate from Sambalpur constituency, Odisha, Dharmendra Pradhan offers prayer at Shree Jagannath Temple, in Puri. "It's my fortune that I prayed here today. People's faith in PM Modi's guarantee is increasing day by day. The wave of change is clearly visible in Odisha. I prayed and, surely, this time a double-engine govt in Odisha is inevitable," he said.

Kerala: On his candidature from Kollam Lok Sabha seat, BJP candidate G Krishna Kumar says, "I thank my state & central leaders and PM Modi for showing so much faith in me. I come from Thiruvananthapuram but he (PM Modi) had the confidence in me that I can give a good fight from Kollam..."