After his roadshow in Ghatkopar, Mumbai, Maharashtra, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be addressing an election rally at Shivaji Park in Mumbai's Dadar area on May 17.

The Election Commission of India (ECI) has summoned the Andhra Pradesh chief secretary and director general of police (DGP) to New Delhi on May 16 in connection with the post-poll violence in the state.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has reached Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh tonight in order to begin the election campaigning for the INDI Bloc. The Delhi CM is out on interim bail, granted by the Supreme Court of India.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah on beginning the process of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) today. CM Yogi said in a tweet in Hindi, "आज का दिन ऐतिहासिक और मानवता के इतिहास में स्वर्णिम अध्याय जोड़ने वाला है। दशकों की प्रतीक्षा के पश्चात आज नागरिकता संशोधन कानून (CAA) के माध्यम से पाकिस्तान, बांग्लादेश और अफगानिस्तान में मजहबी कट्टरता से प्रताड़ित होकर भारत में शरणागत हिंदू, सिख, बौद्ध, जैन, पारसी और ईसाई बहनों-भाइयों को भारतीय नागरिकता मिलने का शुभारंभ हो गया है। नागरिकता पाए सभी बहनों-भाइयों को हार्दिक बधाई! आदरणीय प्रधानमंत्री श्री @narendramodi
जी का हार्दिक आभार एवं माननीय गृह मंत्री श्री @AmitShah जी का अभिनंदन! सच में, मोदी हैं तो मुमकिन है..." (Today is a historic day and is going to add a golden chapter to the history of humanity. After decades of waiting, today through the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the process of granting Indian citizenship to Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian brothers and sisters who have taken refuge in India after being persecuted by religious fanaticism in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan has started. Hearty congratulations to all the sisters and brothers who have got citizenship! Heartfelt gratitude to respected Prime Minister Shri @narendramodi ji and congratulations to Honorable Home Minister Shri @AmitShah ji! Truly, if Modi is there then it is possible...)

"She has developed a modus operandi...should be ashamed,": Union Home Minister Amit Shah slammed West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee over Sandeshkhali violence.

“Uniform Civil Code (UCC) is our main agenda, we will get UCC. We are also focussed on One Nation, One Poll,”: PM Modi said in Kalyan, Maharashtra. 

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal held a roadshow in New Delhi today, where he said, “They stopped my insulin injection for 15 days. I don't know what they want from me. They tried to break me, but I didn't. Now they are saying I will have to go to jail again. I will go to jail or not, that depends on you (the voters).” Kejriwal is out on bail for a few days, having been in custody in the alleged excise scam.

“Today we are witnessing a new sense of self-confidence in India,” said: Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Kalyan, Maharashtra today. As part of his campaigning for the Lok Sabha Elections 2024, PM Modi will also hold a roadshow in Ghatkopar, Mumbai today, in support of Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Mihir Kotecha.

On his statement yesterday that BJP is getting “270 seats after four phases” of the Lok Sabha Elections 2024, Union Home Minister Amit Shah told ANI in an intervie today, "I believe that elections and the results of elections have great importance. Whatever government is elected, it should get support from every part of the country and the government should be stable and have a full majority...I believe that the Opposition, as usual, has tried to politicise our '400 paar slogan', which is their short-sightedness. Stable governments give strength to the country, help in taking decisive steps, providing welfare to the poor, crushing internal security threats like terrorism, Naxalism (Maoism) and in changing the country's agenda and the country's position in the world..."

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be in Jammu and Kashmir for two days starting tomorrow, May 16, from Srinagar. As per Republic sources, Shah will be in Kashmir for the strategy meet of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), wherein the strategy for Baramulla and Anantnag Rajouri Lok Sabha seats will be discussed. Shah will hold a series of meetings with the BJP Jammu and Kashmir leadership.

“We are winning 24-30 seats in West Bengal,” said Union Home Minister Amit Shah in an interview to ANI.

 Odisha: Union Minister and BJP Lok Sabha candidate from Sambalpur, Dharmendra Pradhan says, "Rahul Gandhi ji is the biggest liar. Who strangled the Constitution by imposing an Emergency in 1974? It was done by his family... As long as the Prime Minister in the country is Narendra Modi and the BJP is ruling, for us the Constitution is supreme. There will be no compromise with Constitution, it is our commitment."
 

 Congress MP Rahul Gandhi says, "...I would like to tell all workers and leaders of the BJP - no force in the world can touch this book. If you try to tear and throw away this book (Constitution), watch what the country and Congress party do to you."

“Bengal has to decide whether it wants infiltrators or CAA,” said Amit Shah at Serampore rally in Bengal's Hooghly
 

Addressing a public rally in Bengal's Hooghly, Amit Shah said, "This election is about choosing between corrupt leaders of INDI alliance and honest politician Narendra Modi."
 

"Pakistan occupied Kashmir is a part of India. PoK was and will remain part of India, will get PoK back," said Union Home Minister Amit Shah at a public rally in West Bengal's Hooghly
 

Amit Shah said, “Today I will be among the brothers and sisters of West Bengal and Odisha. Through public meetings in Srirampur and Aska and a road show in Cuttack, I will appeal to the people of the region to end the corruption and appeasement politics of the opposition forever and give 400 seats to Modi ji.”

Union Home Minister Amit Shah said, "The TMC came to power on the slogan of 'Maa, Mati, Manush'. However, their focus has now shifted to 'Mullah, Madrasa, Mafia'. The Imams here are paid an honorarium but the priests and keepers of temples get nothing. While there are no obstacles to Tazias (procession of Muslim mourners on Muharram), there are regular roadblocks to taking out immersion processions on Durga Puja and Kali Puja. Should this be allowed to continue," 
 

A day after the mega campaign rally in Varanasi following his nomination for the Lok Sabha elections 2024, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a roadshow in Mumbai's Ghatkopar today. In Mumbai, the PM will hold the campaign in support of the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate from Ghatkopar seat, Mihir Kotecha.

"I want to thank Dharamshala BJP candidate Sudhir Sharma for filing the nomination. Just as it was a season of fours and sixes in the IPL, we will witness fours and sixes in both Lok Sabha elections and the Vidhan Sabha elections. We will win by a record. With Sudhir Sharma in the BJP, it will provide more strength to our party and all our party leaders are going to support him," Thakur said. 

In a no-holds-barred attack on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and INDIA bloc, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that Arvind Kejriwal has become a wall of corruption and the opposition alliance will be wiped out in the polls."Those (INDIA bloc) who have allied for common greed, their policies, leadership, ideologies, and directions--nothing is the same. They have formed this alliance to stop themselves from going to jail. Kejriwal has become a wall of corruption and he has lost his mental stability inside the jail and keeps saying anything. The people of the country know the truth and they are going to eliminate the INDI alliance from the whole country," said Chouhan.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that when the BJP got 300 seats, it built the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya and now temples will be built at Krishna Janmabhoomi site in Mathura and in place of the Gyanvapi Mosque in Varanasi after it gets 400 seats in Lok Sabha polls.He also said that Pakistan-Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) will be included in India under the leadership of PM Modi.