Morning Digest | Campaigning ends for sixth phase of Lok Sabha polls; Govt seeks feedback from three services on Agnipath scheme, and more

The Hindu Morning Digest gives a select list of stories to start the day. Read the top news today on May 24, 2024

Voting for 58 seats on May 25; 28 States, Union Territories to complete polling with Phase 6

Campaigning ended on Thursday for the penultimate phase of the general elections to be held on May 25, with both the BJP and the INDIA bloc moving the pitch to post-poll arithmetic.

If he has any respect left for me, he has to return immediately: Deve Gowda to Prajwal Revanna

Former Prime Minister and JD(S) supremo H.D. Deve Gowda issued a warning to his grandson Prajwal Revanna, asking him to return to India, surrender to the police, or face his anger and that of all family members. Mr. Deve Gowda, who issued the warning through his letter posted on X (formerly Twitter), said, “I have issued a warning to Prajwal Revanna to return immediately from wherever he is and subject himself to the legal process. He should not test my patience any further.”

Modi keeps up reservation rhetoric, says Congress wants to give SC, ST quotas to people who practice ‘vote jihad’

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the Congress and its INDIA bloc partners had partitioned the country into three nations for their “vote bank” and were now saying that Muslims also had the first right on the remaining part of India. He again accused the Opposition alliance of wanting to snatch the reservation to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes guaranteed by the Constitution and give it to those who practised “vote jihad”.

INDIA bloc will win all seven seats in Delhi, says Rahul Gandhi