1. Four days forward of Assembly elections in Karnataka, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is holding a highway present for half-a-day in Bengaluru today. It will begin at 10 a.m. from RBI floor and conclude at Sankey Tank in Malleswaram Assembly constituency at 1.30 p.m. Bengaluru police have introduced visitors restrictions and indicated the roads to be averted. There is a highway present on Sunday May 7 too, which has been shortened in view of NEET examination.
2. Former AICC president Sonia Gandhi, together with AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, will canvass for social gathering candidates in Hubballi. Rahul Gandhi can even tackle a rally in Yamakanamaradi.
3. Union Home Minister Amit Shah is holding ballot rallies in Saundatti, Chikkodi, Yamakanamaradi and Belagavi.
4. In coastal Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to marketing campaign in Puttur, Karkala, Honnavar and B.C. Road today from midday.
5. Congress leaders Randeep Singh Surjewala and Pawan Khera, this morning, alleged that, with the concern of defeat in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly elections, BJP and its management ‘are plotting to kill AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge, his wife and the entire family’ by Manikantha Rathod, the BJP candidate from Chittapur constituency in Kalaburagi district. Mr. Kharge’s son Priyank Kharge is the Congress candidate in this constituency.
6. In Mysuru, farmers’ affiliation will clarify the political events’ response to their manifesto. The farmers had sought crop insurance coverage for all agricultural crops, reforms in disbursal of agricultural mortgage, implementation of Swaminathan committee report on enhancing agricultural profitability and farmers’ earnings.
7. Atria Institute of Technology is holding its nineteenth annual convocation today. Sudhansu Saha, Director, Software Engineering, Dell Technologies, would be the chief visitor. The occasion shall be held in the institute’s premises in Hebbal from 2 p.m. onwards.