Election 2019 LIVE: After Wardha Speech, Modi Gets Clean Chit for 'Dedicate Votes to Balakot' Remark

Election 2019 LIVE: The Election Commission has banned BJP candidate Pragya Thakur from campaigning for 72 hours for her remarks on ATS chief Hemant Karkare, Babri mosque.

Addressing a poll rally, Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed that the Congress hates him so much that “it even dreams of killing me, but entire nation is batting for me”.

The BJP’s no-loan waiver policy for farmers will not have any political impact in Haryana in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, according to Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, who believes that such schemes only make hardworking people lethargic. Khattar, who is the first BJP chief minister of Haryana, also says that Congress’s Nyay scheme has no shadow budget and can only be implemented if all other schemes are closed.

Aam Aadmi Party has accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of horse trading. The party has claimed that BJP approached seven of their MLAs and offered money to leave Kejriwal-led party. Addressing a press conference, Manish Sisodia and Gopal Rai said, “Our seven MLAs have been contacted by BJP and they are being offered Rs 10 crores each to leave AAP. I urge BJP to fight election on issues rather than horse trading.”

Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal blamed PM Modi for nomination cancellation of SP’s Varanasi candidate Tej Bahadur Yadav. The CM said that first time in history a PM is scared of a young jawan. “Instead of competing with him, he took out technical errors and got the soldier’s nomination cancancelled. Modi ji, you got very weak. The jawan has already won,” he tweeted.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, addressing a poll rally in Ambedkarnagar constituency, claimed that there had been no terror incidents in the last five years, while the situation was similar to Sri Lanka before 2014 as he once again urged voters to elect a ‘majboot’ government.

Priyanka Gandhi, meanwhile, today hinted at a tactical understanding between the Congress and the SP-BSP-RLD alliance in Uttar Pradesh and said that her party has fielded candidates who will cut the BJP’s vote share in seats where Congress is not that strong, and not that of the gathbandhan.

This is the first time since coming to power in 2014 that PM Modi is visiting the area. Though the rally spot is located close to the area between Ayodhya and Ambedkarnagar, Modi has no plans to visit the disputed site of ‘Ram Janmabhoomi’.

PM Modi’s rally was held in Maya Bazaar area, which is just 25 km from the disputed site. But for the national election, Maya Bazaar falls under the neighbouring Ambedkar Nagar parliamentary seat and not the Faizabad seat.

The Samajwadi Party Akhilesh Yadav and Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati are also holding their joint rally at Ram Snehi Ghat, a location that is on the border of Barabanki and Ayodhya districts, 70 km from the temple town.

It is not clear if the location of the rally has been chosen deliberately or if it was a random choice, because the opposition does not want the mandir-masjid (temple-mosque) issue to dominate political discourse.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and other senior BJP leaders are expected to accompany the Prime Minister during the rally.

BJP spokesperson Rakesh Tripathi told News18, “Ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha election, Modi had addressed a rally along the Basti and Ayodhya border, but then too, he didn’t visit the spot where Ram Lalla was born. This time, also, he would not pay a visit to the Ram Lalla, as wherever the PM goes, members of national and international media accompany him. And if a PM goes to a place where Lord Ram is living in a tent, it won’t present a good picture in front of the international media. He will definitely pay a visit once a grand Ram Temple is constructed in Ayodhya.”

The PM’s rally aims to address voters of Ambedkarnagar, which goes to poll in the sixth phase on May 12, and Faizabad that will vote in the fifth phase on May 6. Ayodhya falls under Faizabad constituency. The rally is also likely to set the tone for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the other UP seats that will see voting on May 6.

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