Assembly Election 2021 LIVE Updates: Shah said voting for the first phase had been held peacefully in both Assam and West Bengal and that no person had died
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Asked about a reported meeting with Sharad Pawar in Ahmedabad, Amity Shah says everything cant' be made public. When asked about the arrest of TMC's Chhatradhar Mahato, Shah says Mahato was free, voting concluded in his area yesterday.
Amit Shah congratulated for the election commission for the peaceful polling in the state, saying that in the previous election, violence had become a normal occurrence. I want to thank the women of West Bengal for polling in favour of the BJP "BJP will form government in West Bengal with more than 200 seats," he asserted. The BJP leader also said that the party will retunr to power in Assam with more seats.
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Addressing a press briefing, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that voting in the first phase of elections for West Bengal and Assam Assembly elections was carried out peacefully and not even a single lie was lost. He expressed confidence that the BJP will win over 26 seats of 30 in West Bengal. The party's seats in the state will increase and so will the margin by which it wins the seats, he said. Shah said there are clear indications that the BJP will win over 37 seats of the 47 which went to polls in Assam on Saturday.
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Defence Minister and BJP leader Rajnath Singh holds a roadshow in Pambady. "Our policy is 'justice to all, appeasement of none'. When we come to power, we will make a law against 'love jihad'," news agency ANI quotes him as saying.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh holds a roadshow in Pambady, Kerala.#KeralaElections pic.twitter.com/mgJgT99lSq
— ANI (@ANI) March 28, 2021
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West Bengal: Actor Mithun Chakraborty, who recently joined Bharatiya Janata Party, holds a roadshow in Bishnupur
— ANI (@ANI) March 28, 2021
"The voter turnout recorded yesterday shows that 'poriborton' (change) is coming," he says. pic.twitter.com/qjLh89gISs
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Trinamool Congress replaces candidate for Matigara-Naxalbari Assembly constituency, names Rajen Sundas as its nominee, reports new agency ANI.
Trinamool Congress replaces candidate for Matigara-Naxalbari Assembly constituency, names Rajen Sundas as its candidate pic.twitter.com/f4EGbDvQr9
— ANI (@ANI) March 28, 2021
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"Tamil Nadu's politics requires transformation It will not be enough in the current time to give your governments as earlier. Tamil Nadu is going through big challenges. A dynamic state with the most intelligent youth cannot give jobs to its children. the economy is in a disastrous situation. Tamil Nadu needs a new imagination, a new way of doing things. Im confident that the alliance government which comes will be such a government, It is going to be government that is going to respect the people of Tamil Nadu. It will be a government that will not be controlled by delhi. There is a full-scale assault on the idea of Tamil Nadu. Dont underestimate this assault, it has a huge amount of money behind it. It is conceptualised by the RSS and Narendra Modi. they want a Tamil Nadu which bows in front of them. They do not understand the Tamil Nadu," Rahul Gandhi alleged. "India cannot exist without Tamil Nadu,"Gandhi asserted.
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi hit out at the BJP, saying, "I couldnt see the chief minister of Tamil Nadu, of such great civilsation, of s such a great language, bowing in front of and touching the feet of Modi, Shah and the RSS. It made me angry that the leader of such a great history, such a great people is bowing in front of these people and that is why Im here today. I want a relationship with the Tamil people that is equal, that is respectful and I want a Tamil Nadu that is run from Tamil Nadu, not Delhi."
"Upright people will not bow down before others. The Tamil Nadu chief minister is forced to do so because he is corrupt," Times of India quotes Gandhi as saying.
Assembly Election 2021 Latest Updates: Addressing a press briefing, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that voting in the first phase of elections for West Bengal and Assam Assembly elections was carried out peacefully and not even a single lie was lost. He expressed confidence that the BJP will win over 26 seats of 30 in West Bengal. The party's seats in the state will increase and so will the margin by which it wins the seats, he said. Shah said there are clear indications that the BJP will win over 37 seats of the 47 which went to polls in Assam on Saturday.
The Congress manifesto for the Puducherry polls was released by former chief minister of the UT V Narayansamy, Congress leaders Nitin Raut and Veerappa Moily and others.
Addressing a rally, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi hit out at the BJP, Narendra Modi and Amit Shah and said he wants Tamil Nadu to be run from the state, and not from Delhi. The Congress leader alleged there was a full scale assault on the idea of Tamil Nadu.
BJP leader Rajnath Singh held a roadshow in Thriuvananthapuram. The Union minister is also scheduled to to hold roadshows in Puthupally and Ernakulam constituencies and address a public meeting in Irinjalakuda.
Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday hit out at the ruling CPM-led LDF and the Opposition Congress headed UDF saying they were playing a "friendly match" in poll-bound Kerala.
While the Congress and Left are opposing each other tooth and nail in Kerala, 2,000 km away in West Bengal, they are allies, Rajnath, who is in Kerala for campaigning for the 6 April Assembly polls told reporters in Thiruvananthapuram.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is scheduled to campaign in Tamil Nadu today, with two public meetings scheduled in Chennai's Shastri Nagar (11.15 am) and Seelanaickenpatti, Salem ( 3.45 pm), said the party in a Twitter post.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday alleged Prime Minister Narendra Modi's speech at the Matua temple at Orakandi in Bangladesh was with an eye on elections in West Bengal.
The TMC supremo also alleged that Modi violated the Model Code of Conduct through his speech at the temple, holy to the Matua community spread over India and Bangladesh.
However, Modi in his speech at the temple had not made any election promises.
Banerjee said at a public meeting in Kharagpur, "Modi is delivering a speech at a temple in Bangladesh with an eye on elections in West Bengal." The first phase of voting of an eight-phase poll was completed today."This is total violaton of election code of conduct, we are taking up the issue with Election Commission," she said.
The Matua community in West Bengal is estimated to be 30-million strong.
Modi during his two day trip to Bangladesh to attend Bangladesh's 50th anniversary of Independence, had visited the temple at Oranakandi, birthplace to the Matau community's spiritual guru Harichand Thakur as well as the temple of Jessoreshwari at Ishwaripur in Satkhira.
The chief minister said "our prime minister goes to a foreign country and speaks with an eye on a section of voters, what about that?"
She alleged that Modi had earlier canvassed for Donald Trump's bid for re-election to the President's post in the US. Modi had at a rally in Texas in 2019, come up with the slogan "Ab ki baar , Trump Sarkar" (This time, Trump Government).
"And now during Assembly polls in Bengal you are going to Bangladesh to peddle lies before a section of people, to mislead a section of voters here," she said rhetorically addressing the Prime Minister.
Banerjee recalled the scrapping Bangladeshi actor Firdaus's visa during 2019 Lok Sabha elections "as he took part in a rally here" and wondered why Modi's visa should not be dealt with in a similar manner.
"Firdaus had just attended one rally and said few lines before a crowd being a popular star in both countries and someone from BJP complained against him to the Union home ministry and his visa was cancelled," Banerjee pointed out.
Pointing out that the BJP often accused her of bringing in Bangladeshi "infiltrators", she wondered why Modi "now goes to Bangladesh to do marketing (sic)" for votes.
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