Lok Sabha Polls 2024 Live Updates: Campaigning for phase 1 voting ends today

Lok Sabha Polls 2024 Live Updates: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will continue the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s poll campaign with rallies in Assam and Tripura on April 17. 

The campaigning for first phase of polling on April 19 ends today. Polling will be held in 102 Lok Sabha seats spread over in 17 states and four Union Territories in the first phase on Friday.

Today, the Prime Minister will address a public meeting in Nalbari of Assam. Later he will address another public meeting in Agartala, Tripura.

Among other top BJP leaders, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari will virtually address people in Nagpur while Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will address three rallies at Kannur, Kasargod and Vadakara of Kerala today. All 20 Lok Sabha seats of Kerala go to polls in the first phase.

Among the opposition leaders, Congress’s Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will continue their campaign trail. Rahul will campaign in Karnataka along with Congress president Malikarjun Kharge. Priyanka will campaign in Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh – the only seat in western UP where a Congress candidate is in fray in the first phase of polling on April 19.

Rahul is also expected to address a joint press conference with Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav in Ghaziabad, the seat going to polls in the second phase on April 26. Congress candidate Dolly Sharma is in the fray against BJP’s local MLA Atul Garg on the seat.

The TMC will hold a Shobha Yatra in West Bengal’s Howrah to mark Ram Navami. The rally will be led by TMC’s Howrah candidate Prasun Banerjee. Party’s Jadavpur candidate Sayoni Ghosh, and ministers Arup Roy and Manoj Tiwary will also be present in the rally. 

Voting for 543 Lok Sabha seats will be held in seven phases with the first phase scheduled on April 19. The counting of votes will take place on June 4. Stay with LiveMint to track live updates on Lok Sabha elections.