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Live updates of the 2019 Lok Sabha election campaign. Phase 6 of polling will happen on May 12.

Just In | At a public meeting in Santuri, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that she will slap on PM Modi's face since he is calling the TMC 'tolabaaz', News18 has reported. She also said that PM Modi is lying.
'Bit difficult' for BJP to reach 280 on its own, says Shiv Sena's Sanjay Raut, reports News18.
Update: East Delhi Returning Officer has issued a notice to Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia over violation of MCC regarding a tweet on the religion of AAP's East Delhi Candidate Atishi. He has been asked to furnish his comments on the matter by 5 pm tomorrow, reports news agency ANI.
Modiji said that Bofors case happened in Rajiv Gandhi's regime, what wrong did he say? Rahul Gandhi should tell the country that under his father's government, did Bofors happen or not? Did Bhopal gas tragedy happen or not? Weren't the Kashmiri Pandits slaughtered? I want to ask, is it an insult to remind of truth?: Amit Shah
"Duryodhan had lots of ego, and his ego was the reason of his defeat," says Priyanka Gandhi during her rally in Ambala, Haryana.
BJP president Amit Shah while addressing a rally in Belda, West Bengal: Mamata Didi, your governance will come to an end on May 23. Put me in jail... I am shouting 'Jai Shri Ram' in front of you.
Priyanka Gandhi during a rally in Ambala, Haryana: PM Modi has no time to listen to farmers but has time to ask for votes by sometimes saying '70 years se haathi so raha hai' and sometimes he asks for votes by taking the name of the martyrs of my family
Addressing a public meeting in West Bengal’s Paschim Medinipur, BJP President Amit Shah promised to introduce the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill again.

“We will first bring the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill to give Indian citizenship to the Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain and Christian refugees from the neighbouring countries and then will ensure that every infiltrator is identified and deported out of India,” Shah said.

“Once Bengal gets real 'parivartan' when BJP forms the government here, those who fired upon innocent children who protested at being forced to study in Urdu will be sent behind bars,” Shah added.
TRS MP K Kavitha has told ANI that no appointment has been fixed between Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao and DMK President MK Stalin so far. KCR had met Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan yesterday and is hoping to form a non-BJP, non-Congress government at the Centre after the Lok Sabha election results are announced on May 23.
We are thinking of going to the EC seeking revised guidelines. You have to count all EVMs. Then only you can convince the nation. What we are asking is a genuine demands. We will take this to the people and educate them: N Chandrababu Naidu
Our aim is that the election should be fair for every party. We respect the Court's order but we have to still take this to the people of the country: Farooq Abdullah
The EC has received no guidelines in case either of the five machines go bad: Congress’ Singhvi
Congress’ Abhishek Manu Singhvi, who was appearing in the SC on behalf of the Opposition leaders, has said: We bow down to the Court's order. We must make it clear that this is an all-India political campaign to make people aware at hand.
Opposition leaders, including Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and former J&K CM Farooq Abdullah, are addressing the press after the SC rejected their plea seeking increase in VVPAT verification.
NEWS FLASH: The Supreme Court of India (SC) has rejected a review plea filed by 21 Opposition leaders seeking increase in random matching of VVPAT slips with EVMs.
The Supreme Court of India (SC) will today hear a review plea filed by 21 Opposition leaders seeking increase in random matching of VVPAT slips with EVMs to 50 percent.
A Congress delegation led by former Union Minister and Congress leader Suresh Pachouri reaches former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan residence in Bhopal with documents containing details of farmers whose loans have been waived off by the present state government. (ANI)