New Delhi: Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is in Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh, to attend a party workers' meeting in Chunar and is expected to leave for Varanasi soon to address fishermen and women there, as part of her party's campaign ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Meanwhile, Congress President Rahul Gandhi will be in Imphal, Manipur, today to discuss various issues and attend an interaction with students from Manipur.
In what can be seen as a first major political setback for the ruling BJP in Arunachal Pradesh that goes to simultaneous Lok Sabha and assembly polls on April 11, at least 18 party leaders have resigned from the party after being denied tickets. They have joined Conrad Sangma's National Peoples party (NPP), a key BJP ally which has decided to go solo across northeast.
Here are the Highlights from 2019 Election campaigning:
Mar 20, 2019 16:36 (IST)
Congress President Rahul Gandhi addresses public meeting in Agartala.
Mar 20, 2019 16:30 (IST)
Congress General Secretary for Uttar Pradesh (East) Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, while showing the election manifesto issued by BJP for Varanasi in Lok Sabha polls 2014, says: PM Modi made 8 promises in this (manifesto), and has even one promise been fulfilled or not? Not even one. Propaganda politics is easy, anyone can do it.
Mar 20, 2019 14:58 (IST)
Rahul Gandhi will be addressing a public meeting in Agartala, Tripura, shortly where he will be talking about issues like corruption and Congress' vision for the North-East.
Mar 20, 2019 14:44 (IST)
Congress has finalised alliance with National Conference in Jammu and Kashmir, says Ghulam Nabi Azad. Mr Azad says alliance finalised in national interest, to strengthen secular forces as the state faces threat from Pakistan.
Mar 20, 2019 14:30 (IST)
In another blow to the Congress-NCP alliance in Maharashtra, Ranjitsinh Mohite-Patil, son of Vijaysinh Mohite-Patil -- a former deputy chief minister and a sitting MP from Madha -- joins BJP in the presence of Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis.
Mar 20, 2019 14:16 (IST)
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra offers prayers at Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi.
Mar 20, 2019 14:10 (IST)
Tejashwi Yadav of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) tells news agency ANI: "Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance) is intact, seats and constituencies will be announced after Holi. There is nothing to worry, all is fine in the alliance."
Mar 20, 2019 14:00 (IST)
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra visits ancestral home of former prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri at Ramnagar in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.
Mar 20, 2019 12:38 (IST)
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Chief Mayawati says she will not contest the Lok Sabha elections.
Mar 20, 2019 12:28 (IST)
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, in Manipur, says: "We fought against the Citizenship Amendment Bill in Parliament and defeated it. We are absolutely clear that there will be no encroachment on North East. We will fight tooth and nail to ensure CAB does not become a law."
Mar 20, 2019 12:21 (IST)
Priyanka Gandhi arrives at Assi Ghat in Varanasi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's parliamentary constituency.
Mar 20, 2019 12:11 (IST)
Loktantrik Janata Dal (LJD) leader Sharad Yadav tells news agency ANI: "Mahagathbandhan (the Grand Alliance) will do a press conference in Patna on March 22 to announce the seat sharing in Bihar."
Mar 20, 2019 10:16 (IST)
Arunachal Pradesh Home Minister Kumar Waii, who quit BJP and joined NPP, says: "If the BJP was the right party, I would have been working for it. BJP says that for them country is first, party second and person third but they are doing dynasty politics. This is a secular state but BJP is an anti-religion party."
Mar 20, 2019 10:14 (IST)
General Secretary of National People's Party (NPP) Thomas Sangma tells news agency ANI: "I am delighted to welcome 8 sitting ministers and MLAs to our party. National People's Party will not form alliance with anyone. BJP's ideology is not right. It is not a secular party."