Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE updates: Political events intensified their campaigns to woo voters forward of the Lok Sabha elections 2024. They additionally stepped up their assaults in opposition to their rivals. The BJP urged the Election Commission to order lodging of an FIR in opposition to TMC chief Piyush Panda and ban him from campaigning, alleging that he hurled a casteist slur in opposition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi throughout an election rally in West Bengal. On the opposite hand, in a major growth, the Supreme Court on Monday sought responses from the Election Commission and the Centre on a plea looking for a whole depend of VVPAT slips in polls as opposed to the present apply of verification of solely 5 randomly-selected EVMs by way of VVPAT paper slips. The Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) is an impartial vote verification system which allows an elector to see whether or not his vote was forged appropriately. Union Home Minister Amit Shah is scheduled to maintain a roadshow in Karnataka at present.
