The Latest Breaking News from Lok Sabha

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Uttar Pradesh Minister of State (independent charge) Manohar Lal Panth made a controversial remark in Jalaun district on July 9 comparing Opposition unity against the BJP with barking dogs against a powerful roaming elephant. “When elephant roams and does its work, dogs bark,” he said, when reporters asked him about Opposition unity.

Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) founder Kamal Haasan chaired a meeting with the party’s Executive Committee members on Friday, which called for party members to apply for ward-wise party positions in South Chennai, Coimbatore and Madurai Parliamentary Constituencies in preparations for the Lok Sabha elections next year.

The BJP on July 7 appointed party’s in-charges for Assembly polls in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana and Chhattisgarh, stepping up its campaigns for key State polls before the Lok Sabha contest in 2024.

In a setback for Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Gujarat High Court on Friday upheld the Sessions Court's order and denied a stay on his conviction in the defamation case against 'Modi surname' remark. Read further on Dynamite News:

The Gujarat High Court on July 7, 2023, refused to stay the conviction and suspend two years jail term awarded to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in the criminal defamation case in which he has been sentenced to two years in jail by a court in Surat. The case was related to…

Despite winning the 2022 Assembly poll and securing 62 seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha poll, the BJP is looking to forge ties with the SBSP and the RLD as they hold sway over key seats in eastern and western U.P., respectively

The Muslim MP share in the Lok Sabha has an inverse relationship with the BJP’s MP count. Read more on this data on The Hindu.

Senior BJP leaders of 12 States in east and northeast India met in Guwahati on July 6 to strategise on the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.