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Several prominent names, including Samajwadi Party's Dimple Yadav, National Conference’s Farooq Abdullah, and former Maharashtra CM Y B Chavan have also won Lok Sabha elections without a contest. 

During a public address, Viriato Fernandes was seen telling the people that he had met Rahul Gandhi before the 2019 elections and had told him that the people of Goa prefer dual citizenship (Indian and Portuguese).

Prime Minister said that Congress and SP have always been involved in appeasement politics and that it was the BJP that secured the lives of Muslim women by bringing legislation against triple talaq.

"He (Pradip Sarkar) enters our homes, clicks pictures and warns us about releasing the images on the internet. If we object, then, he threatens to murder our husbands," a woman recounted.

Eight contenders other than the BJP dropped their candidature for the Surat Lok Sabha seat since Congress candidate Nilesh Kumbhani's form was canceled. The latest withdrawal was made by BSP candidate Pyarelal on 22nd April after which the BJP was declared the winner unchallenged.

“They were forcing her to convert. Since she didn’t agree to religious conversion, she was murdered,” Niranjan Hiremath, the Congress Councillor from Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation (HDMC), said

In a sarcastic critique, Venkatesh Prasad likened redistribution of wealth from the rich to the poor to the point system used in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL).

While Congress manifesto talks about socio-economic survey, on 6th April, Rahul Gandhi had said, "We will first conduct a nationwide caste census to determine how many people belong to the Other Backward Classes (OBCs), Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs) and minorities. After that, we will conduct a financial and institutional survey in a historic step to ascertain the distribution of wealth.”

On 9th December 2006, the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stated categorically that Muslims have the first claim on India's resources.

News24 shared a post claiming that BJP’s Hyderabad candidate Madhavi Latha demanded reservations for all Muslims, deleted after called out for fake news