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Loksabha 2024 Live Updates: PM hits out at DMK, Mamata Banerjee misleading people on CAA, Hitler’s gas chamber jibe of Sanjay Singh, Union Minister’s legal notice to Shashi Tharoor, Centre provides Z security to CEO and many more. The Ultimate Khabar brings to you the wrap of crucial political updates of the day, so don’t forget to watch Daily Election Dose with TUK, everyday at 7pm.

Dividing people over language…’: PM hits out at DMK, Congress in Vellore

Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, PM Narendra Modi on Wednesday addressed a rally in Tamil Nadu’s Vellore. Hitting out at the ruling DMK, PM Modi accused the Dravidian party of “dividing people over language, region, faith”. “DMK divides people over language, region, faith and caste. DMK knows that the day people see through this, it will not get a single vote. I have decided to expose the decades-old dangerous politics of DMK,” Modi, whose BJP is making a spirited fight to make significant electoral inroads in the Dravidian heartland, said”.

Once again targeting the Congress and DMK, both of whom were at power in the Centre and the state, respectively, in 1974 when Katchatheevu islet was ceded to Sri Lanka, he asked in which cabinet meeting was such a decision arrived upon and to ‘benefit’ whom. The Congress had not provided answers to these. Post its ceding, Indian fishermen from Tamil Nadu were arrested and their boats seized and the “Congress and the DMK show fake compassion,” to them, he alleged.

Mamata Banerjee misleading people on CAA: Amit Shah in West Bengal

Union home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday hit out at West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), accusing her of misleading people. “We have passed the CAA law. Mamata didi is misleading the people of Bengal. She is saying that if you apply for CAA, you will lose your citizenship. I request refugees to apply for citizenship under CAA, I assure there won’t be any problem,” Shah said at a rally in West Bengal’s Balurghat. ALSO READ: Amit Shah’s big CAA dare to Mamata in Kolkata rally: ‘No one can stop it’“Mamata didi, no matter how much you oppose CAA, we will grant citizenship to all the refugees,” the minister said.Shah said that only Prime Minister Narendra Modi and a BJP government in West Bengal can stop infiltration in the state. “Ensure bringing BJP in West Bengal and witness the unparalleled transformation,”

Rajeev Chandrasekhar sends legal notice to Shashi Tharoor: ‘Malafide intent’

Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Wednesday sent a legal notice to Shashi Tharoor, the Congress MP and his challenger from Thiruvananthapuram, accusing him of making defamatory statements on a television channel. According to a PTI report, Chandrasekhar alleged that Tharoor disseminated ‘patently false information’ regarding bribing of key voters and influential figures like parish priests by the BJP leader. The notice sent by Chandrasekhar alleges that Tharoor’s statements were made with an intent to harm his reputation and image and the remarks disrespected the entire Christian community of the Thiruvananthapuram constituency.

Centre provides Z security to Chief Election Commissioner after threat perception report

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar’s security level has been raised to ‘Z’ category, India Today quoted sources at the Union Home Ministry as saying.The Ministry of Home Affairs approved ‘Z’ category security for the CEC, based on an intelligence report from the Intelligence Bureau (IB). However, they did not disclose the details of the threat perception report.Armed commandos will accompany CEC Kumar during his travels across the country to provide enhanced security during his official engagements.