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He said that India now no longer hesitates or comes under pressure when it comes to taking a stand on global issues and has moved ahead with a sharp focus since 2014.
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The strong foundations that Feroze Gandhi laid in the constituency were later nurtured and strengthened by his wife and former prime minister Indira Gandhi, who won from the seat in 1967, 1971 and 1980, followed by friends and family members of the Gandhi family.
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Kishori Lal Sharma,who is originally from Punjab’s Ludhiana, took over the reins in 1983 but it was after Rajiv Gandhi’s death that he became Sonia Gandhi’s trusted lieutenant, ensuring whatever she wanted was delivered in Amethi and Raebareli.
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BJP sources say the party will project amongst the people that Rahul Gandhi deserted Amethi in fear of losing to Irani, and that there is no stopping her record win from Amethi now.
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Campaigning on Thursday for Sule in Pune district's Purandar tehsil, which comes under the Baramati Lok Sabha constituency, he also flayed the BJP over farmers' issues.
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No member of the Gandhi family contesting from Amethi in itself is an indication that Congress has accepted its defeat from Amethi even before elections, says BJP's Amethi candidate Smriti Irani.
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I abide by the decision of the Gandhis. No, I don’t think I am a weak candidate. I know Amethi more than Smriti Irani does, says KL Sharma.
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Both Amethi and Raebareli will go to polls in the fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections on May 20. The last day of filing of nomination is on May 3.
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Odisha 2024 Lok Sabha Election Polls: The BJD is basing its campaign on the development they have brought in to the state as well as the uncorruptible image of the party president and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
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Punjab 2024 Lok Sabha Election Polls: Agriculture Minister Gurmeet Singh Khuddian, known for his monumental victory against former Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, will represent AAP from the Bathinda constituency.
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Lok Sabha Election 2024 Highlights: T Yaman Singh, the BJP's Hyderabad candidate Madhavi Latha, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, state party chairman G Kishan Reddy, and party leader Raja Singh have all been charged with breaking Election Commission guidelines while campaigning.
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Rajasthan 2024 Lok Sabha Election Polls: Riding on the popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and bolstered by robust organizational networks, the BJP aims to replicate its past successes in the 2024 elections.
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Himachal Pradesh 2024 Lok Sabha Election Polls: Himachal is the only state in northern India where the Congress is currently in power on its own. The Congress defeated the BJP by a wide margin in the 2022 Assembly elections, winning 40 of the 68 seats, selecting Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu as the chief minister.
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Haryana 2024 Lok Sabha Election Polls: The 2024 general elections in the state will be held in a single phase on May 25; votes will be counted on June 4. Haryana has 10 Lok Sabha seats, with the BJP holding all 10 seats in the state.
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Gujarat 2024 Lok Sabha Polls: The BJP has dominated the political landscape in Gujarat over the past decade but the opposition is hopeful that after winning all seats in the Lok Sabha, for two consecutive terms, the party may face an anti-incumbency sentiment.
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"I can say this with certainty that now it's established that there are people on Pakistan soil who spread terror in India," Shah told Network18 Group Editor-in-Chief Rahul Joshi in an exclusive interview. He was responding to a question on a report in The Guardian about India orchestrating killings of several individuals in Pakistan
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Both Amethi and Raebareli will go to polls in the fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections on May 20. The last day of filing of nomination is on May 3.
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The deputy commissioner-cum-district election officer of Tarn Taran submitted a report that the use of casteist remarks was in violation of the instructions of the ECI
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In an exclusive interview with Network18 Group Editor-in-Chief Rahul Joshi, Union home minister Amit Shah spoke about BJP's resolve of '400 paar' in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections and also took a dig at the Congress over its election manifesto.
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The resignation comes days after Arvinder Singh Lovely stepped down from the post of the Congress' Delhi unit chief and former MLAs Neeraj Basoya and Naseeb Singh quit the party in protest against the alliance with AAP.
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In an exclusive interview with group editor-in-chief Rahul Joshi, Home Minister Amit Shah criticized the Congress party for promoting personal law. He also held the Congress party responsible for promoting communalism in the country. To learn more about this issue, you can watch the exclusive video of the interview.
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Chirag, who headed the Lok Janshakti Party floated by late Paswan till it was split by the latter's younger brother Pashupati Kumar Paras, now heads the LJP (Ram Vilas)
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Madhya Pradesh Lok Sabha Election Phase 3 voting: In this phase, eight Lok Sabha seats of Madhya Pradesh - Morena, Bhind, Gwalior, Guna, Sagar, Vidisha, Bhopal and Rajgarh - will go to polls.
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Polling in Guna constituency of Madhya Pradesh commenced at 7 AM today for the third phase of the Lok Sabha elections. Jyotiraditya Scindia (BJP) is contesting against Rao Yadvendra Singh Yadav (INC). Stay tuned for the latest updates from the Guna Lok Sabha elections.
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah denounced the allegations levelled by Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal's wife Sunita, who had said that the BJP-led central government wants to kill her husband in jail
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For the first time since 2009, the BJP dropped its heavyweight leader and sitting MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh from Uttar Pradesh's Kaiserganj seat and gave the ticket to his son
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Phase three voting: The state has 26 Lok Sabha seats. But polling will be conducted in only 25 seats as recently BJP candidate Mukesh Dalal was elected unopposed from the Surat Lok Sabha seat.
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MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said that no political clearance was sought for Revanna, who had fled the country as sexual abuse allegations surfaced against him.
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Polling in Bilaspur constituency of Chhattisgarh commenced at 7 AM today for the third phase of the Lok Sabha elections. Representing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is Tokhan Sahu, while the Indian National Congress (INC) has fielded Devender Singh Yadav as its candidate. Stay tuned for the latest updates from the Bilaspur Lok Sabha elections.
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In a no-holds-barred attack on the BJP, Pandian also said it is the ruling party at the Centre that has done nothing for the 'Odiya Asmita' or for promoting the language, art and culture of the state despite repeated pleas by the chief minister
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The saffron party has dropped its sitting MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who has lately been embroiled in a sexual harassment controversy.
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Polling in Murshidabad constituency of West Bengal commenced at 7 AM today for the third phase of the Lok Sabha elections. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) is fielding Mohd Salim, while the Trinamool Congress has nominated the incumbent Abu Taher Khan for re-election. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has put forth Gouri Shankar Ghosh as its candidate. Stay tuned for the latest updates from the Murshidabad Lok Sabha elections.
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The elections in third phase will take place in Sarguja, Raigarh, Korba, Bilaspur, Durg, Janjgir-Champa and Raipur.
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Polling in Mainpuri constituency of Uttar Pradesh commenced at 7 AM today for the third phase of the Lok Sabha elections. This time, Dimple Yadav is contesting against the BJP’s Jaiveer Singh, the Tourism Minister in the Yogi Adityanath government and an MLA from Mainpuri. The BSP has fielded Shiv Prasad Yadav. Stay tuned for the latest updates from the Mainpuri Lok Sabha elections.
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Polling in Raipur constituency of Chhattisgarh commenced at 7 AM today for the third phase of the Lok Sabha elections. Brijmohan Agarwal of the BJP is contesting against Vikas Upadhyay of the INC. Stay tuned for the latest updates from the Raipur Lok Sabha elections.
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Polling in Firozabad constituency of Uttar Pradesh commenced at 7 AM today for the third phase of the Lok Sabha elections. Thakur Vishwadeep Singh (BJP) will be contesting against Akshay Yadav (SP). Stay tuned for the latest updates from the Firozabad Lok Sabha elections.
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Polling in Durg constituency of Chhattisgarh commenced at 7 AM today for the third phase of the Lok Sabha elections. Vijay Baghel of the BJP is contesting against Rajendra Sahu of the INC. Stay tuned for the latest updates from the Durg Lok Sabha elections.
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Of the 40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar, both Saran and Pataliputra were once seen as bastions of the RJD. Saran, for instance, elected Lalu to the Lok Sabha in 2009, but slipped out of the RJD’s reach in 2014 and 2019.
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Polling in Shimoga constituency of Karnataka commenced at 7 AM today for the third phase of the Lok Sabha elections. B.Y. Raghavendra (BJP) is contesting against Geetha Shivarajkumar (INC), who is the daughter of the late former Chief Minister B.S. Bangarappa and wife of Kannada superstar Dr. Shivarajkumar. Stay tuned for the latest updates from the Shimoga Lok Sabha elections.
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Pradhan, who is a cabinet minister in the Modi government, is contesting elections after a gap of 15 years, after the BJP picked him as its candidate for Sambalpur, which is the epicentre of western Odisha
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Maldaha Uttar, Maldaha Dakshin (South), Jangipur and Murshidabad are among the few constituencies in the country where the minority population is in majority.
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Chaudhry Fawad Hussain, a former minister in Imran Khan's cabinet in Pakistan, had shared a video featuring Rahul Gandhi on his social media handle and praised him.
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Polling in Agra constituency of Uttar Pradesh commenced at 7 AM today for the third phase of the Lok Sabha elections. This time, the BJP has re-nominated Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, S P Singh Baghel, indicating a strong commitment to retaining the seat. Challenging the BJP's dominance, both the Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance and the BSP have fielded Jatav Dalit candidates for the seat – Suresh Chand Kardam and Pooja Amrohi, respectively. Stay tuned for the latest updates from the Agra Lok Sabha elections.
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Polling in Dharwad constituency of Karnataka commenced at 7 AM today for the third phase of the Lok Sabha elections. BJP has chosen to field their incumbent Member of Parliament, Pralhad Joshi, against Vinod Asooti, a youth leader of the INC. Stay tuned for the latest updates from the Dharwad Lok Sabha elections.
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The court disposed of a PIL filed by an organisation called Lawyers Voice seeking directions against the ECI. The court further noted that it cannot pass such orders against the ECI in the middle of elections
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The Nifty 50, India's main equity gauge, is trading at record-high levels amid surveys predicting Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will emerge victorious in the elections that started on April 19 and runs through June 4, when results are due.
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Akhilesh Yadav faces a pivotal test as Samajhwadi Party navigates the electoral landscape without Mulayam Singh Yadav, aiming to reclaim lost ground and maintain familial unity amidst challenges.
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In an exclusive interview with Network18, Amit Shah said that the TMC does not see infiltration as a national security threat but as a potential "vote bank"
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Polling in Baramati constituency of Maharashtra commenced at 7 AM today for the third phase of the Lok Sabha elections. This constituency features a closely watched battle between Sunetra Pawar, wife of Maharashtra's Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, and Supriya Sule, daughter of NCP chief Sharad Pawar. Stay tuned for the latest updates from the Baramati Lok Sabha elections.
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Polling in Gulbarga constituency of Karnataka commenced at 7 AM today for the third phase of the Lok Sabha elections. Umesh G Jadhav (BJP) is contesting against Radhakrishna Doddamani of the Congress. Stay tuned for the latest updates from the Gulbarga Lok Sabha elections.
