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The Independent Panel for Monitoring of Elections (IPME), 2024 has, in its seventh week monitor of the elections, pointed out issues of communal polarisation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that the Election Commission of India (ECI) has failed to act against apart from structural malfunctioning by the poll body including the failure to release actual voting figures

Opposition parties including Congress, CPI (M), and TMC have targeted ECI over discrepancy and delay in releasing data for the first two phases of the Lok Sabha election 2024

A clip has surfaced from Madhya Pradesh where a minor child can be seen voting alongside his father, BJP leader, Vinay Mehar.

In the same period, November 2023 to date, Congress and its leaders received six such notices/orders, while one such MCC violation was flagged to Congress ruled Karnataka Government

BJP is in the news again, this time due to the son of a leader for making fun of the EVM and calling it his ‘fathers’ property’. The opposition has claimed that the accused visited 25 polling stations in the same manner.

The petitioners also bemoaned over one show cause notice issued to BJP by the ECI even after continuous hate riddled speeches, asking why notice was issued to party when PM Modi is the "individual culprit" behind the hate statements.

A harrowing analysis by the team at Sabrang India has revealed a growing number of instances when voters have been publicly threatened by several BJP leaders as well as government officials from voting against them. 

With the BJP fighting to maintain its winning streak after it won 9 out of 14 Lok Sabha seats in 2019, opposition parties have sped up their campaigning as well, giving a tough fight.

In a letter addressed to all the leaders of INDIA parties, regarding the discrepancies in the voting data released by Election Commission of India (ECI) and non-publishing of actual numbers of registered voters, Mallikarujun Kharge, Congress President has raised serious issues on the dysfunctional partisan conduct of the statutory body

A video shared widely by the TMC purports to show footage taken by a hidden camera in which a Bharatiya Janata Party leader claims that the serious allegations of sexual crimes that had come forth from Sandeshkhali in the last few months were all false.