Lok Sabha election tracker LIVE: Ex-BSF jawan Tej Bahadur Yadav#39;s nomination as SP Varanasi candidate rejected

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May 01, 2019 05:24 PM IST | Source: Moneycontrol.com

Lok Sabha election tracker LIVE: Ex-BSF jawan Tej Bahadur Yadav's nomination as SP Varanasi candidate rejected

Live updates of the 2019 Lok Sabha election campaign. Phase 5 of polling will happen on May 6.

  • Congress is honest in two things: dynasty politics and corruption. That they do with all honesty: PM Modi 

  • When the Modi government comes back, every farmer, irrespective of land, we will try to provide them help: PM Modi 

  • Who is this Zakir Naik? This is the same Zakir Naik who was praised by 'Diggi Raja' (Congress leaderDigvijaya Singh)... it is the same Zakir Naik who was invited by Congress government to talk to Indian police officers, and that too on terrorism: PM Modi while referring to Sri Lanka blasts. 

  • Which team is Congress in? The Indian team or Pakistan's team? If you are thinking if Congress is bowling no balls, then that's your misunderstanding. Congress has thought this out and saying all this: PM Modi 

  • Update: PM Modi addressing a rally in Itarsi, Madhya Pradesh. 

  • For vote bank politics, Mamata Banerjee tries to impose Urdu in Bengal: Amit Shah 

  • Do you want Bengali or Urdu? If Durga Puja doesn't happen in West Bengal, then will it happen in Pakistan? Mamata Banerjee's government doesn't allow Durga Puja in West Bengal: BJP president Amit Shah during a rally in Hooghly, West Bengal. 

  • Update: Reacting to Varanasi SP candidate Tej Bahadur Yadav's nomination rejection, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav said, "When they are asking for votes in the name of nationalism, they should have faced a soldier. People who dismissed him from his job because he complained about food, how can those people be called real patriots?" 

  • Dismissed BSF jawan Tej Bahadur Yadav's nomination as SP candidate from Varanasi rejected

    Dismissed BSF jawan Tej Bahadur Yadav's nomination as SP candidate from Varanasi rejected, reports PTI. 

    "My nomination has been rejected wrongly. I was asked to produce the evidence at 6.15pm yesterday, we produced the evidence, still my nomination was rejected. We will go to the Supreme Court," Yadav told the media. 

  • BJP will lose these elections, all their Chowkidars can come together but it is not going to work for them, all that has worked for them are their 'jumals': BSP chief Mayawati.

  • Today those who are fighting on 8 seats, 20 seats and 40 seats want to become the Prime Minister. Even to become leader in the Opposition, 50 seats are required: PM Modi 

  • When you press the button on the lotus symbol, your vote will directly go to me: PM Modi 

  • It is the specialty of BJP and its cadre, for us nation is the greatest. We are people who live for the nation: PM Modi 

  • Update: PM Modi addressing a rally in Kaushambhi, Uttar Pradesh. 

  • 'Behenji' (BSP chief Mayawati) used Babasaheb Ambedkar's name and the Samajwadi Party (SP) used Lohia (Ram Manohar Lohia), but they worked against their principles: PM Modi 

  • Whether the danger is within India or on India's border, this New India will enter the enemy's territory and eliminate them: PM Modi at a rally in Ambedkar Nagar, Uttar Pradesh. 

  • JUST IN | Election Commission gives clean chit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Says he did not violate Model Code of Conduct in Wardha speech.
     

    PM Modi had said, without naming the Wayanad constituency, that Rahul Gandhi is contesting from a "place where the majority is minority". 
     

    The Congress had filed a complaint against the speech claiming that it was divisive and communal in nature. 

  • Just In | EC has barred SP leader Azam Khan from campaigning for 48 hours for violating the Model Code of Conduct. 

  • Update: The Election Commission has served SP candidate from Varanasi, Tej Bahadur, a notice to get an NOC from the Border Security Force (BSF). Bahadur was sacked from the BSF, and he now has to file a reply by 11 am tomorrow morning, reports News18. 

  • The letter also mentions that there are earlier examples when MCC relaxation was given in 2009. CM has requested to allow a cabinet meet and Ministers' visits to drought-affected areas for taking stock of situation and necessary works which are to be undertaken as drought relief measures

  • JUST IN | Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis writes to CEC requesting him for some relaxation in Model Code of Conduct in the state for drought relief works. Total 151 talukas of Maharashtra have been declared drought-hit, and the Center has passed a budget of Rs 4,714 crore for drought relief in the state.

  • JUST IN | East Delhi Returning Officer issues show cause notice to DMRC MD regarding an ad with picture of BJP's candidate Gautam Gambhir published in newspaper on 26 April. Delhi Metro Rail Corp to submit documents from EC's Media Certification & Monitoring Committee for it, before May 2.

  • PM Modi: If India is able to tackle terrorism successfully today, it is because of a strong government at the Centre. 

  • PM Modi: If Apna Dal patriarch Sonelal Patel was alive today, he would have been proud of the BJP for making the tallest statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.