Lok Sabha election 2019 Live updates: Don’t believe it, says Akhilesh on Priyanka Gandhi’s claim of eating into BJP votes

More than half of the country has exercised their right to vote. The fifth phase of Lok Sabha poll will take place on May 6 and the counting of votes will take place on May 23. As part of their campaign for the Lok Sabha elections 2019, leaders from several parties will continue to criss-cross the country to woo the voters.
* The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is facing a tough challenge from the Mahagathbandhan (MGB) on seven of the 12 seats in Uttar Pradesh in the next phase of the Lok Sabha polls.
* I want to increase the number of SP’s MPs in the Lok Sabha. I want to be among those who want to make a new Prime Minister. I want UP to contribute to the next government formation: Akhilesh
* Akhilesh Yadav on Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s claim that BJP controls the SP and the BSP: No one controls us. We are political parties. It is the SP, BSP and RLD alliance in Uttar Pradesh that is poised to give a setback to the ruling party. Our alliance will stop the bad policies of BJP.
* Akhilesh on political analysts’ claim that the coalition is the ‘Team B’ of the Congress: BJP has learnt to misuse the ED, Central Bureau of Investigation & other agencies against leaders in opposition from the Congress.
* Akhilesh on political analysts’ claim that the coalition is the ‘Team B’ of the Congress: There is no difference between the BJP and the Congress. Congress wants to benefit the BJP. Who taught the central agencies to intimidate Opposition leaders?
* Akhilesh on being asked if Mulayam Singh Yadav will be a PM candidate: Our alliance wants to give India a new PM. Party will decide about the PM when final seat tally is out. It’ll be good if Netaji gets the honour (to be PM) but I feel he is probably not in prime ministerial race.
* Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav to ANI on Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s claim to have fielded weak candidates to eat into BJP’s vote share in Lok Sabha polls in UP: I don’t believe that Congress has fielded weak candidates anywhere. No party does it. People are not with them.
* BJP tried to buy atleast 7 AAP MLAs by offering Rs 10 crore to each: Arvind Kejriwal
* Andhra Pradesh CM and TDP leader, N Chandrababu Naidu in Amravati: Opposition parties will sit together after the election and discuss who will be the Prime Minister, I’m not an aspirant. Polling is to be held in 3 more phases, after that we will discuss. (1.5.19)
* Prime Minister Narendra Modi cancels his public rally in West Bengal, scheduled for May 5.
* Rahul Gandhi to hold rallies in Jaipur and Jharkhand’s Simdega.
* Actor-politician Sunny Deol to hold a rally in Dhanipur near Amritsar in Punjab.
* Priyanka Gandhi to address rallies in Rae Bareli, to campaign for her mother Sonia Gandhi, who is contesting from Rae Bareli Lok Sabha constituency.
* BJP president Amit Shah to address rallies in Rajgadh, Neemach and Sihaur in Madhya Pradesh.
* Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath to campaign in Jharkhand today.
* Sonia Gandhi to hold rallies in Rae Bareli.
* JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar to hold rallies in Madhubani, Sitapur and Hajipur in Bihar today.
* The Election Commission of India (ECI) has directed officials to conduct re-elections at five polling stations in Andhra Pradesh on May 6. Voting will be held in polling booths located in Guntur, Prakasam and Nellore districts.
* The Left parties lodged a complaint before the Election Commission against Trinamool Congress alleging ‘vote loot’ in booths of the Bolpur seat during fourth phase of Lok Sabha polls held on April 29.
* The Election Commission has served a notice to Rahul Gandhi for saying Prime Minister Narendra Modi has devised a law to ‘shoot tribals’ at a rally in Madhya Pradesh recently.
As per the complainants, Gandhi had said, “Now, Narendra Modi has made a new law for adivasis (tribals). In that law, there is a line that says that tribals can be shot dead. It is also mentioned that tribals can face encounters, their land can be stolen.”
* Congress President Rahul Gandhi said that there will be fresh investigation into the scam involving Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board, commonly known as Vyapam (Vyavsayik Pariksha Mandal).