Lok Sabha Elections News

BJP leaders criticise Rahul Gandhi for vacating the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat, accusing him of deceiving voters. Rajeev Chandrasekhar calls it an insult, while V Muraleedharan claims Congress wants to make Wayanad a Gandhi family constituency. Priyanka Gandhi announces her candidacy, promising to represent Wayanad well.

Despite the defeat in the Lok Sabha elections, no changes will be made in the state BJP, the central leadership of the party clarified on Tuesday. Therefore, it has been highlighted that Devendra Fadnavis, who demanded to be released from the responsibility of Deputy Chief Minister, will remain in that position.

The Rouse Avenue Court has accepted Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal's bail application in the Delhi Liquor Policy case. The court granted him bail on a bail bond of ₹1 lakh. The court denied the ED's request to allow at least 48 hours to sign the bail bond in order for the central agency to challenge it before the relevant court.

Police in Thane have registered a case after as many as 720 voter cards were found discarded in the district, weeks after Lok Sabha elections concluded. Passersby found the cards scattered on the ground on the Shil-Kalyan road on Thursday, an official said. A probe is underway to ascertain from where the voter ID cards were stolen, the official added.

A video showing Madhya Pradesh's former CM Digvijaya Singh dismissing a woman trying to approach him is viral with false claim that she was shooed away after asking for ₹8,500 promised by the Congress. BOOM found that the claims are false, the video is from February 2024 and is unrelated to the Congress' election promises.

Over 260 parliamentarians took their oaths as the 18th Lok Sabha opened, marked by tension between the government and opposition. PM Modi invoked the Emergency, criticizing Congress. Opposition members protested by holding up copies of the Constitution. The session will address issues like price rise, examination irregularities and will elect the Lok Sabha Speaker and Leader of Opposition.

Om Birla was elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha, but TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee criticized the process, saying the Pro-Tem Speaker ignored opposition calls for a division vote, revealing BJP's lack of numbers. The motion was passed by voice vote, with opposition members admitting they didn't have enough support for a division vote.

During 2024 Lok Sabha elections, videos were the primary source of misinformation. Fact-checkers analysed 110 cases from April 18 to June 4 and found that misinformation peaked during the second & fourth phases. It included manipulated clips of Rahul Gandhi's false resignation and edited celebrity clips endorsing political parties.

In the first major meeting of the Uttar Pradesh BJP unit after the general elections, UP CM Yogi Adityanath said overconfidence hurt the BJP in Lok Sabha polls. "The percentage of votes that BJP had...in 2014 and subsequent elections, BJP successfully got the same number of votes in 2024...but shifting of votes and overconfidence have hurt our hopes," he added.

An old video of Nirmala Sitharaman taking the Delhi metro is circulating with misleading claim that it shows her commuting to office by metro every day, despite her position as a cabinet minister in India. BOOM found that Sitharaman took the metro in Delhi when she was campaigning for East Delhi's Harsh Malhotra in the Lok Sabha elections this year.

In Odisha, Biju Janta Dal has formally assigned its members to oversee government departments by mirroring the positions of Cabinet Ministers. The decision is inspired by the shadow cabinet in the United Kingdom where the Leader of Opposition choses elected members, each of whom focuses on a specific policy area and challenges their Cabinet counterpart in Parliament.

Speaking on the Lok Sabha elections, Congress' Rahul Gandhi said in the US that he doesn't view it as a free election. "I don't think that in a fair election, BJP were near 240 [seats]," he added. The Leader of the Opposition also said there is no fair playing field while claiming that RSS has captured the education system.

The Lok Sabha election 2024 saw a promising 800 women contest 390 seats -- the highest since 1957-- according to a recent report by the Election Commission of India. Women contested only 37 seats in the second general election in 1957. While the growing number of women contesting elections is encouraging, India still grapples with a gender imbalance in politics.

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