Modi pays homage to Ambedkar, Savarkar ahead of Mumbai poll rally

PM Modi pays floral tribute to Babasaheb Ambedkar. Pic/X

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday evening paid floral tributes to Dr B R Ambedkar at 'Chaityabhoomi' and Hindutva ideologue V D Savarkar at his memorial in Mumbai before heading to Shivaji Park to address an election rally for the ruling 'Mahayuti' alliance, reported news agency PTI.

Chaityabhoomi in Dadar, where Ambedkar was cremated, and Savarkar's memorial are located in close vicinity of the sprawling Shivaji Park Ground, the rally venue. PM Modi shared stage with Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) president Raj Thackeray, a BJP ally. This was the 18th election election rally of PM Modi held in Maharashtra for Lok Sabha Elections 2024.

Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Deputy CMs Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar and Union minister Ramdas Athawale also attended the rally.

The campaign rally was held to seek votes for all the 6 Shiv Sena-BJP candidates in Mumbai which goes to polls on May 20 in the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha elections.

Meanwhile, INDIA bloc leaders held a rally BKC's Pathaka Maidan on the same evening. The rally was attended by AAP leader and Delhi CM Kejriwal, Shiv Sena (UBT) Uddhav Thackeray, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, NCP (SP) founder Sharad Pawar and many others.

(With inputs from PTI)

Lok Sabha elections 2024: PM Modi wants to finish democracy, Kejriwal says at INDIA rally in Mumbai

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi wanted to finish off Indian democracy and was taking the country towards dictatorship, reported the PTI.

Arvind Kejriwal was speaking at a rally of the opposition's INDIA bloc in Mumbai ahead of the May 20 voting for the six constituencies in the city for Lok Sabha elections 2024 and elsewhere in Maharashtra, the AAP leader claimed that Modi's policy was "if you can't defeat opponents, arrest them."

Meanwhile, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge said at the rally at the BKC ground in Mumbai that there was an undercurrent against the PM Modi-led government, and that is why the PM is afraid, as per the PTI.

PM Modi was not paying attention to employment generation and controlling of inflation, he claimed.