Elections 2024: Amid Kharge's Letter To Modi, PM Says Congress' True Intentions Came Forward In Manifesto - News18

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi during an election rally in Uttar Pradesh. (Image: PTI)

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Latest Updates: The poll campaign for the second phase ended on Wednesday, with top leaders of the BJP-led NDA and the opposition INDIA bloc making a last-gasp effort to woo voters

Lok Sabha Election 2024: Amid suspense around Congress's candidate for Amethi, which has been a stronghold of the Congress party, former MLC Deepak Singh said that everyone has faith that Rahul Gandhi will come here at a 'shubh muhurat' to file his nomination for the Lok Sabha Election.

"All of us believe that Rahul Gandhi will come at a 'shubh muhurat', he will come when the time is right and not only win in Amethi but become the Prime Minister of India," said Singh.

Congress national president Mallikarjun Kharge, on the other hand, wrote a letter to PM Modi over the party's 'Nyay Patra' on Thursday and sought time from him to explain the manifesto in person. He told the Prime Minister that "you're misinformed by your advisors over the things that are not even written" in the manifesto.

Amid this, while speaking at a public rally in Shahjahanpur, the PM said that "Congress' true intentions and hidden agenda came forward in their manifesto".

The poll campaign for the second phase ended on Wednesday, with top leaders of the BJP-led NDA and the opposition INDIA bloc making a last-gasp effort to woo voters.

The second phase of polling is scheduled for April 26. The end of the campaigning marks the commencement of a 48-hour silence period before polling. In the second phase of polls for the 18th Lok Sabha elections, 88 seats across 13 states and Union Territories is underway. The second round of voting for the general elections is witnessing polling in all 20 seats of Kerala, 14 of the 28 seats in Karnataka, 13 seats in Rajasthan, eight seats each in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, six seats in Madhya Pradesh, five seats each in Assam and Bihar, three seats each in Chhattisgarh and West Bengal, and one seat each in Manipur, Tripura and Jammu and Kashmir. Earlier, 89 constituencies were expected to vote in the second phase of voting. However, polling in Madhya Pradesh's Betul was rescheduled after the death of a candidate from Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). Betul will now vote in the third phase, due on May 7.

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Sanstuti Nath

With around five years of experience on the desk as well as reporting, Sanstuti Nath is a Senior Sub Editor at News18.com. She writes on Indian politi