With just days left for the last phase of the Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address rallies in Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal today. The four rallies will be held in Bihar's Paliganj, Jharkhand's Deoghar and Basirhat and Diamond Harbour in West Bengal. Yesterday, party chief Amit Shah's first roadshow in Kolkata ended with violence and police lathicharge as party supporters clashed with students holding "Amit Shah Go Back" posters.
In Rajasthan, Congress President Rahul Gandhi will meet the family of the woman who was gang-raoed by five men in Alwar. The case has snowballed into a political issue in Rajasthan. He will then, travel to Punjab, where he will speak in Faridkot and Ludhiana, accompanied by Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will hold a roadshow in Varanasi, PM Modi's constituency, today evening. She will also address a rally in Uttar Pradesh's Salempur.
Here are the live updates on today's election rallies and events:
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's bust was placed inside a room in Vidyasagar College, which is deep inside the campus. Only TMC students union members had access to it because the roadshow was not inside the campus! So who vandalised the bust? Offcourse TMC! #SaveBengalSaveDemocracy pic.twitter.com/kVVuolBqOr
- Chowkidar Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) May 15, 2019
. @MamataOfficial "I do not have words to condemn the incident. I am myself ashamed... that, as people of Bengal, we cannot respect Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar because of these BJP goons. These leaders will be leaders of the nation ? Those who cannot respect icons ?" pic.twitter.com/CHYOTaHJD5
- Derek O'Brien | (@derekobrienmp) May 15, 2019
Lok Sabha Elections 2019: After Violence In Amit Shah Kolkata Rally, Mamata Banerjee-BJP War Of Words: 10 FactsBJP chief Amit Shah's first roadshow in Kolkata ended with violence, arson and a police lathicharge on Tuesday as the rallyists clashed with students holding "Amit Shah Go Back" posters. Mr Shah called it an attempt to "strangulate democracy". Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said the violence was triggered by goons the BJP brought from outside Bengal.
