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Congress leaders to the BJP in Madhya Pradesh ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, terms like 'garbage' and 'trash bins' have become part of the political discourse as the opposition party is using them to target the turncoats while the ruling party is seen hitting back in the same style. After a Congress leader termed his party turncoats as garbage, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders also hit back at the opposition party with the «trash bin» remark. Senior Congress leader K K Mishra, media advisor to state party chief Jitu Patwari, recently said the BJP has become a dustbin, into which the trash of the Congress is being thrown. Another senior Congress leader and party's national secretary Satyanarayan Patel last week equated the turncoats with the garbage thrown into dumping grounds. Asked about the dustbin jibe of Congress leaders, state cabinet minister Prahlad Patel told reporters on Friday, «The Narendra Modi government has put up two-three bins for the garbage, including those for dry, wet and medical waste. Now medical waste is remaining.» Reacting to the minister's comment, K K Mishra told PTI that the BJP has finally accepted the truth.

Lok Sabha polls which will be held in Kerala on April 26. While Muraleedharan is contesting as the BJP candidate from nearby Attingal constituency, former state minister Isaac is the nominee of the ruling CPI (M)-LDF for the Pathanamthitta Lok Sabha seat. Muraleedharan was accorded a grand reception at the constituency by the party workers before he proceeded to file the nomination papers at the district collectorate. The minister of state for External Affairs also offered prayers at the famed Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple and Pazhavangadi Ganapathi temple here this morning. He was accompanied by the leaders of the party's district unit while filing the nomination. Meanwhile, Isaac held a road show in an open jeep ahead of filing the nomination papers in Pathanamthitta. While a large number of party workers took part in the procession, state Health Minister Veena George accompanied him in the jeep to the Collectorate. Both candidates exuded confidence about their victory by a good margin.

₹1,800 crore notice. According to an India Today report, senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said, "Two more notices were sent to us last night". He reiterated that Congress was a target of "tax terrorism".

Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed its first chargesheet in connection with a money-laundering probe linked to alleged irregularities in the Delhi Jal Board (DJB), official sources said on Saturday. The prosecution complaint was filed by the federal agency before a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in Delhi on March 28, the sources told PTI. Four individuals and a company have been named as the accused in the chargesheet — former DJB chief engineer Jagdish Kumar Arora, contractor Anil Kumar Agarwal, former NBCC general manager D K Mittal, one Tejinder Singh and NKG Infrastructure Limited. The ED has alleged that bribe money generated from corruption in a contract issued by the DJB was «passed on» as election funds to the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Delhi. The agency had also summoned Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for questioning in the case, but he did not depose before it.

first-time voters in Arunachal Pradesh voting is not just a right but a responsibility also for building a strong base for a vibrant democracy. First-time voters in Arunachal Pradesh constitute 46,144 of the total 8,82,816 electorate. Voting for the two Lok Sabha constituencies and the 60-member Arunachal Pradesh Assembly will be held simultaneously on April 19. Eighteen-year-old Millo Sunyo who will vote for the first time said: «Voting is not just a right but a responsibility of all eligible voters to exercise their adult franchise for building a strong base for a vibrant democracy».

President Joe Biden's reelection campaign is raising gobs of cash. And it has an election-year strategy that, in a nutshell, aims to spend more — and spend faster. Not only has Biden aimed to show himself off as a fundraising juggernaut this month, but his campaign is also making significant early investments both on the ground and on the airwaves — hoping to create a massive organizational advantage that leaves Republican Donald Trump scrambling to catch up. But while the money pouring in has given Biden and the Democrats a major cash advantage, it's also becoming clear Biden will need it. Throughout his life in business and politics, Trump's provocations have earned him near limitless free media attention. Biden, meanwhile, has often struggled to cut through the noise with his own message despite holding the presidency.

Lok Sabha elections that are scheduled to take place in seven phases beginning from April 19. “If people of Mandi in Himachal Pradesh elect me and want me to be here and serve them, I will work full-time for them," Kangana told Hindustan Times on Friday. The BJP candidate asserted that she would become a ‘voice for Mandi people’ in the Parliament and promised to work for its schools, hospitals, and roads.

Donald Trump was heavily criticized for posting a video on a social media platform, containing the image of a hog-tied President Joe Biden painted on the tailgate of a passing truck. The video, posted on Truth Social, shows a passing truck decked with the ‘Trump 2024’ campaign for the upcoming US presidential elections. The visuals were taken in Long Island, New York.

Tata Motors, on the other hand, remain normal. “We saw a very lukewarm response from customers in the dealerships this month, unlike a typical March.

Top Events of the Day: Several important events including Congress' nationwide protest against IT department notices, PM Modi's Lok Sabha campaign in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar Class 10 board exam results, IPL 2024 match, and Bharat Ratna award ceremony will take place today, March 30. - Prime Minister Narendra Modi will kick off the BJP's campaign for the upcoming Lok Sabha election 2024 which is scheduled to take place in seven phases, in Uttar Pradesh from Meerut with a mega rally this weekend. - Banks, LIC, and other insurers will keep their offices open today, March 30.

Piyush Goyal said Friday. The theme of the upcoming general election is Viksit Bharat with a focus on «nari shakti» and «bhrashtachar-mukt Bharat (women power and corruption-free India),» he added. India's growth will be based on the twin pillars of being inclusive and sustainable and the government wants to ensure that people are free from having to worry about the necessities of «roti, kapda aur makaan». «We believe that nobody should slip back into poverty. As people's basic needs are being met with free ration and other benefits, they should be free from the tension of daily needs,» Goyal said at a meeting with ET journalists. «We want an aspirational India, which can dream of big leaps and aspire for high quality of life.»

In a Joint Consultative Meeting of the ENPO, Federating Tribal Bodies, Frontal Organizations, Talk Team, and senior leaders held on February 23, 2024, at Chenmoho Village, Mon District, it was unanimously resolved «not to participate in any central and state elections» against the delay in settling the offer for the creation of Frontier Nagaland Territory by the Government of India through the Ministry of Home Affairs. Furthermore, the ENPO shall not accede to any assurances that may come up from the Ministry of Home Affairs to be implemented after the upcoming Parliamentary election process. Recently, the Konyak Union (KU) of Nagaland declared a ‘public emergency’ due to the Centre’s delay in settling its offer for the creation of ‘Frontier Nagaland Territory’.

contestant of many elections past, this year's independent candidate from Tamil Nadu's Dharmapuri Lok Sabha constituency, K Padmarajan, is the epitome of that quixotic line of Samuel Beckett, 'Ever failed. No matter. Try again.

INDIA bloc on Friday announced the seat-sharing for Bihar at a joint press conference in Patna. As per the agreement, RJD will contest 26 Lok Sabha seats out of 40, the highest by any political party in the state in the upcoming general election. The Congress will contest nine seats, the CPI (ML) will contest three seats and the CPI and CPI (M) will contest one seat each. «We have arrived at a unanimous decision, demonstrating a cohesiveness that you may not find in the NDA,» RJD leader Manoj Jha told media persons.

Lok Sabha elections 2024: The Congress on Friday released its ninth list of candidates on Friday. The party has fielded its veteran leader CP Joshi from Rajasthan's Bhilwara as it declared three candidates and two replacements for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. Former Union minister M Veerappa Moily was replaced by a fresh face in Karnataka's Chikkaballapur constituency.

Election Commission has directed the authorities in Manipur to make arrangements to ensure and facilitate all Internally Displaced People (IDPs) to cast their votes for the Lok Sabha elections at the special polling stations without any difficulty. The special polling stations would be set up in all the relief camps in different districts so that the voters among the IDPs could cast their votes in the two phases of Lok Sabha elections on April 19 and 26. A 6-member Election Commission team led by Dharmendra Sharma, Senior Deputy Election Commissioner arrived in Imphal on Thursday and conducted a thorough review of the election preparedness. The ECI team also reviewed the preparedness of elections with the District Election Officers and Superintendents of Police of all 16 districts.

CP Joshi from Rajasthan's Bhilwara as it released its ninth list of three candidates and two replacements for the Lok Sabha polls. In Karnataka's Chikkaballapur constituency, the party chose to nominate Raksha Ramaiah instead of former Union minister M Veerappa Moily, prioritizing youth over experience. The 84-year-old Moily was elected from the Chikballapur constituency twice in 2009 and 2014 but lost in 2019.

Muktar Ansari, who died after suffering cardiac arrest on Thursday, revealed everything «fearlessly» and «confidently» about his crime when he was arrested by a team of Delhi Police Crime Branch in connection with a highly sensational case in 1993. The case pertained to ransom for kidnapping a businessman from Lutyens Delhi. «He was around 30-years-old then, full of confidence and showing no fear of law. That was a highly sensational case in those days,» recalled Ashok Chand, a retired Delhi Police officer, who led the team and ensured the safe rescue of the businessman from Panchkula at the Punjab-Haryana border, 250 kilometers away from Delhi. Ansari and his two associates had demanded a ransom of Rs 1 crore from the family members of the west Delhi-based businessman Ved Prakash Goel. The calls were made from a local phone booth of Panchkula, where they had hid Goel in a rented accommodation.

Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that when they come to power, they will take «strict action» against those trying to «murder the democracy.» Accusing the Income Tax Department of double-standards, Congress on Friday alleged that while it has been penalised for «a violation of Rs 14 lakh», the income tax authorities were completely silent on «Rs 42 crore violation» by the BJP and that the violations by the ruling party at the Centre entailed a penalty of Rs 4,600 crore. «When the government changes, action will definitely be taken against those who 'murder the democracy'! And such action will be taken that no one will have the courage to do all this again. This is my guarantee,» Rahul Gandhi said in a post on X (formerly Twitter).

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge accused the BJP-led Centre on Friday of misusing institutions like the income-tax department, ED and CBI to subvert democracy and belittle the Constitution, and asked why is the I-T department being used as a weapon to harass the principal opposition party. He asserted that such actions would not deter the Congress from contesting the upcoming Lok Sabha polls and vowed that his party will free the country's institutions from the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) «dictatorship». Congress leader Rahul Gandhi also hit out at the BJP, accusing it of indulging in «tax terrorism». «When the government changes, action will definitely be taken against those who have 'disrobed democracy'. And such exemplary action will be taken that no one will dare to do all this again. This is my guarantee,» Gandhi said in a post in Hindi on X.

Arvind Kejriwal from the post of Delhi chief minister. The petition was filed a day after a similar plea was dismissed by the Delhi High Court. On Thursday, the Delhi High Court rejected the PIL seeking the removal of Kejriwal from the post of Delhi chief minister, saying the petitioner did not show any legal provision prohibiting the Aam Admi Party (AAP) leader from running the government after arrest to warrant any judicial interference.