Lok Sabha Elections 2024 LIVE updates: Congress to release manifesto for Lok Sabha polls

April 05, 2024 09:01 am | Updated 09:49 am IST

Congress leaders will release the party’s manifesto for the Lok Sabha elections on April 5 with its focus on the five ‘pillars of justice’. The manifesto would be released by party chief Mallikarjun Kharge and former party presidents Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.

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Meanwhile, the affidavit filed by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi as part of his nomination papers for the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat showed that he has assets of more than ₹20 crore. Mr. Gandhi has declared movable assets to the tune of ₹9,24,59,264 and showed the purchasing price of his self-acquired immovable assets as being worth ₹7,93,03,977 in the affidavit.

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Independent MP from Mandya in Karnataka Sumalatha Ambareesh has announced she would join the BJP on April 5. The actor-turned-politician won the 2019 general elections with the support of the BJP, defeating former Prime Minister and JD(S) patriarch H.D. Deve Gowda’s grandson and H.D. Kumaraswamy’s son Nikhil Kumaraswamy.