Assembly Election 2023 Live Updates: Wednesday is the final day of campaigning in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh’s 70 second-phase seats ahead of voting on November 17
Assembly Election 2023 Live Updates, 15 November: Days ahead of voting on November 17 for the Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, two states with considerable tribal populations, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Rs 24,000-crore Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTG) Mission in Jharkhand, and released Rs 18,000 crore as the 15th installment of PM-Kisan scheme to 8 crore beneficiaries from Khunti. “A lot of Bayanbaazi (declarations) happen on social justice, secularism. However, true secularism comes only when there is no discrimination. True social justice comes when all get benefits of government schemes,” the PM said after flagging of the schemes.
Wednesday is the final day of campaigning in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh’s 70 second-phase seats ahead of voting on November 17. The BJP is set to end its Chhattisgarh campaign with Union Minister Amit Shah and party president J P Nadda attending rallies in the state. Yesterday, the PM held a road show in Indore. At a rally in MP’s Betul, he once again attacked the Congress over corruption and neglect of Tribal communities during their tenure.
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Meanwhile, the Election Commission on Tuesday issued a show-cause notice to the Aam Aadmi Party for alleged disparaging remarks made against the prime minister on its social media handle and asked it to respond to the charge of model code violation by November 16. The BJP had on November 10 approached the EC and demanded action against the AAP for posting “very unacceptable” and “unethical” video clip and remarks targeting PM Modi.
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At an election rally in Barwani in Madhya Pradesh on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi referred to the Congress government in Rajasthan, saying: “What all didn’t happen there in the last five years? Could we have even imagined that we will hear slogans like ‘sar tan se juda (take someone’s head off)’ in Bharat?… This happened in Congress misrule in Rajasthan before a camera.”
EC reminds parties to furnish poll bond details by Nov 15 in sealed cover
The Election Commission on Tuesday sent a reminder to all political parties to submit details of donations received through electoral bonds by 5 pm tomorrow.
This direction comes after the Supreme Court ordered the election body to produce updated data on contributions received by the parties through the electoral bond scheme till September 30, 2023, and submit the details under sealed cover.
A five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court, in an interim order on November 3, had given the poll body two weeks to produce updated data, while hearing the constitutional challenge to the electoral bond scheme. The bench headed by Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud reserved its verdict after a three-day hearing.
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First published on: 15-11-2023 at 11:05 IST
