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Two persons, said to be working for  two drug smugglers based abroad, were arrested and ₹1crore cash recovered from them, Director General of Police Gaurav Yadav has said.

Jugal Kishore Sharma's vote share in the Jammu constituency dropped 5 per cent from 58.02 per cent to 53.46 per cent, and Jitendra Singh's vote share in Udhampur decreased nearly 10 per cent from 61.38 per cent in 2019 to 51.28 per cent, ECI data shows

TMC Lok Sabha leader Sudip Bandyopadhyay said that BJP's Prahlad Joshi had called to invite, yet they will not attend.

Omar Abdullah was defeated by jailed candidate Engineer Rashid, Mufti lost to formidable opponent Mian Altaf in the Anantnag-Rajouri constituency and Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi of the NC won the Srinagar Lok Sabha seat with an impressive 3.56 lakh votes, maintaining a commanding margin of 1.88 lakh votes over his opponent, Waheed Parra of the PDP.

Polling is being held for four Lok Sabha seats and six Assembly constituencies in Himachal Pradesh today.

Lok Sabha elections are being held today, June 1, for Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, and Chandigarh, with voters heading to the polls to choose their representatives.

As the Lok Sabha elections 2024 near their conclusion, the Congress party has decided to refrain from participating in debates on exit polls, scheduled to begin on June 1. Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera made this announcement, stating that the party does not find it necessary to engage in "speculation and slugfest for TRP."

Himachal CM Sukhu said, “It's not an ordinary election in Himachal, it's between honesty and dishonesty and will set the course of future politics in the hill state.”

Preparations for the Lok Sabha election vote counting on June 4 are underway in Delhi, with plans to install large screens at various locations in the Chandni Chowk Lok Sabha constituency.

The total number of voters in Punjab is 2,14,61,739 comprising 1,12,86,726 male voters and 1,01,74,240 female voters, 773 transgender voters, 1,58,718 PwD (Persons with Disabilities) voters, and 1,614 NRI (Non-Resident Indian) voters.  

In his debut contest, Dr Rajiv Bharadwaj, 62, of the BJP is taking on Congress leader and former Union minister Anand Sharma in the parliamentary seat made up of 13 assembly segments of HP's Kangra district and four of Chamba district.

Mufti, with party members and workers, had held a sit-in protest on polling day, May 25, for the Anantnag-Rajouri constituency, against the alleged detention of PDP party workers by J&K police.