L.S.Polling News 2019
Tamil Nadu
May 23 results will send PM and TN CM home: CPI
The results of Lok Sabha elections and by-polls to 22 assembly constituencies in Tamil Nadu would change the fate of Tamil Nadu and send both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister K Palaniswami home, CPI State secretary R Mutharasan said on Sunday.
Campaigning in support of Secular Progressive Alliance candidate and DMK’s Pongalur N Palanisamy in Sulur near Coimbatore, Mr. Mutharasan alleged Modi was pursuing only anti-people schemes like Sterlite, Methane projects in Tamil Nadu.
In this backdrop, he was not able to highlight the achievements of the government, instead seeking votes by talking ill of the family of Jawaharlal Nehru, who had sacrificed his life for the nation, he said.

Uttar Pradesh
Modi doing dirty politics over Alwar gang-rape, says Mayawati
Hitting back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his charge that she was “shedding crocodile tears” over the Alwar gang-rape incident, BSP supremo Mayawati has accused him of indulging in “dirty politics” and demanded his resignation for incidents of Dalit atrocities in the past.
Hours after the Prime Minister’s remarks at election rallies in Kushinagar and Deoria earlier in the day, Ms. Mayawati said, “In the wake of this incident, Modi is doing dirty politics.”
On the Prime Minister’s challenge to her to withdraw support to the Congress government in Rajasthan, she said, “The BSP will for sure take an appropriate political decision in the absence of stringent and proper legal action in the case.”
In a press note issued in Lucknow, Ms. Mayawati also demanded Mr. Modi’s resignation over cases pertaining to Dalit atrocities such as the Una flogging incident and the Rohit Vemulla case taking moral responsibility.
West Bengal
BJP govt. using central forces to influence voters in West Bengal, says Mamata
Reiterating that the BJP government was using the central forces to influence voters in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said she feared that BJP and RSS activists have entered the state, sporting the uniform of the forces, to conduct polling.