Varun Gandhi Addresses First Rally Of 2024 Polls, For Mother Maneka Gandhi

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.

Less than 10 per cent of the candidates contesting in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections are women, according to an analysis of data shared by the poll rights body Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR).

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal made it clear on Wednesday that his wife Sunita is not likely to contest elections in the future, saying she has no interest in active politics even though she came out aggressively in public after his arrest.