Watch - "Your Every Vote Will...": Sonia Gandhi's Video Message For Delhi

Congress Rajya Sabha MP Sonia Gandhi addressed the people of Delhi in a video message today - two days before the national capital goes to polls on May 25, stressing that "every vote will create employment, reduce inflation, and empower women".

A row over access to voter turnout data - including critical information about number of votes polled and/or rejected at each booth as available in Form 17C and Form 17C (Part II) - has made headlines as India selects a new union government.

BJP leader and Pilibhit MP Varun Gandhi reached Sultanpur on Thursday to campaign for his mother Maneka Gandhi who is in the fray from the seat on a BJP ticket.

Of the 8,337 candidates contesting in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, as many as 1,644 have criminal cases registered against them, according to an analysis of the data shared by the poll rights body Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR).

Multiple social media users shared a video showing a group standing on a goods carrier and purportedly holding EVMs in their hands. The voice in the background, seemingly of the person recording the video, claims that the BJP was doing an EVM scam.

It is the year of elections. India, which is in the middle of a six-week-long general elections, is the "only thing that looks stable", says top US political scientist Ian Bremmer.