Haasan had stoked a controversy on Sunday by saying "free India's first extremist was a Hindu", referring to Nathuram Godse who killed Mahatma Gandhi.
The "frightening and scary" scenario that the opposition promises will be responsible for its rout in the Lok Sabha elections, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Thursday.
The state, which has witnessed the most bitter electioneering this time between the TMC and the Bharatiya Janata Party, will have polling on the remaining nine of the 42 Lok Sabha seats on Sunday, the seventh and last phase of elections
Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu today said that the party president Rahul Gandhi is a cannon and touted himself as AK-47 rifle.
Mayawati accuses PM Modi, Amit Shah of targeting Mamata Banerjee
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Wednesday that Modi government is the first government after Independence to have six women Cabinet Ministers with two of them as members of the Cabinet Committee on Security.
Banerjee, also the chief minister, said she had never seen this type of EC which is "biased and full of RSS people".
Addressing an election rally in Deoria in support of Congress' Salempur candidate Rajesh Mishra, Priyanka claimed that no development works were carried out in Varanasi, the constituency represented by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday said that neither the BJP nor the NDA it leads will be able to form a government after the Lok Sabha elections.
Accusing the BJP-RSS of systematically attacking Bengal and its ethos, CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury Wednesday said the saffron party was opposed to the very ideas propagated by social reformer Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, whose statue was desecrated in the violence during BJP president Amit Shah's roadshow in Kolkata.
The reaction from the TMC came close on the heels of BJP president Amit Shah accusing the West Bengal's ruling party of indulging in violence in the state and alleged that the Election Commission has been a "mute spectator".
Bharatiya Janata Party national President Amit Shah will hold a roadshow here on Thursday, a party official said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi complained to the public that those people have been hurling abuses at him and trying to damage his image and defame him.
In order to garner the votes for the party candidate Ajay Rai, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra held a mega roadshow in Varanasi, the Lok Sabha constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
"The chowkidar is a thief and is frightened since he will be exposed in the debate. He will not be able to show his face to the country," Rahul Gandhi said.
"Out of 111 candidates analysed, 23 candidates have declared criminal cases against themselves," the study said.
"The title given to him by the Time magazine is absolutely correct. I say they were in fact very kind to Modi." said Kamal Nath
She said that holding roadshows and visiting temples have become a ‘fashion' during elections and a huge amount of money is spent on this.
UP CM Yogi Adityanath offers prayers at Varanasi's Kashi Vishwanath temple
Mukta Arya has been asked to take charge on Monday and the state government directed to send a compliance report by 10 a.m. on Monday.
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