Uttara Kannada’s BJP Member of Parliament, Anantkumar Hegde, has sparked controversy by asserting that his party must secure 400 Lok Sabha seats in the upcoming elections to “rectify” the Constitution and undo the perceived harm caused by Congress over the years. This echoes remarks he made in 2019. While speaking to BJP workers in Siddapur taluk on Saturday, Hegde claimed that the Congress had repeatedly amended the Constitution, implementing “anti-people” policies.

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On March 7, the Election Commission’s Nirvachan Sadan office operated normally, just a day before election commissioner Arun Goel tendered his resignation to President Droupadi Murmu. On that particular day, Goel had engaged in an off-camera discussion between the EC, led by chief election commissioner Rajiv Kumar, and representatives of the international media. This meeting had been arranged by the ministry of external affairs. Preceding this, on March 4 and 5, Kumar and Goel had been in West Bengal as part of the EC’s routine pre-poll visits to various states and Union Territories to evaluate election readiness.