PM Modi's "2 Shehzade" Dig At Akhilesh Yadav, Rahul Gandhi In UP

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday hit out at the alliance of Samajwadi Party and Congress in Uttar Pradesh and alleged that "do shehzade" (two princes) have come together for the politics of appeasement.

Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi abolished the inheritance tax after his mother Indira Gandhi's death in 1984 to save her wealth from going to the government, PM Modi said, alleging that the Congress now wants to bring back the levy.

Besides the BJP, the Congress is the only party with a national presence, making discrediting it a key goal for Modi. Now, the onus is on the Congress to defend itself and launch a counteroffensive.

In a bold act of protest against the pollution of the Shipra River, Congress' Ujjain Lok Sabha seat candidate Mahesh Parmar on Tuesday took a dip in the river and sat in the overflowing drain water entering the river.

The Congress' Shashi Tharoor is bidding for a four-peat of wins from Thiruvananthapuram, but arguably faces his toughest test yet in Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar, with the CPI's Pannyan Raveendran also in the mix.

The Wayanad Lok Sabha seat will see an intriguing three-way contest between Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, the BJP's K Surendran, and Annie Raja of the Communist Party of India.