Lok Sabha Election 2019 LIVE: 5-year tenure of Modi govt is a sad story of governance, says Manmohan Singh

Former Delhi CM & Congress's candidate from North-East Delhi, Sheila Dikshit holds a door-to-door campaign in Seelampur area.

Union Minister Jayant Sinha, former chief minister Arjun Munda and ex-MLA Kalicharan Munda are among the 61 candidates whose fate will be sealed in the second phase of elections in Jharkhand.

Polling will be held between 7 am and 4 pm Monday amid tight security in four Lok Sabha constituencies -Hazaribagh, Koderma, Ranchi and Khunti (ST) - where over 65 lakh electorate is set to exercise their franchise in 8,834 polling stations, an election official said.

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram Sunday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his remarks on Rajiv Gandhi, saying it showed his "desperation" and "fear of defeat".

A day after Modi took a jibe at former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi at his party rally at Pratapgarh in Uttar Pradesh, Chidambaram said, "The PM's remarks on former PM Rajiv Gandhi show the extent of his desperation and fear of defeat."

Quoting a Latin saying 'De mortuis nihil nisi bonum' which meant "Of the dead, speaking nothing but the good," Chidambaram asked: Has the PM heard of this ancient wisdom? "Does any religion allow anyone to speak ill of the dead?" he asked.

Accusing the Congress and its president Rahul Gandhi of attempting to tarnish his image over the Rafale issue, Modi had said, "Your father was termed 'Mr Clean' by his courtiers, but his life ended as 'Bhrastachari number 1' (corrupt number 1)".

He claimed the Congress chief had admitted in an interview that his only aim is to tarnish the image of Modi. "By hurling abuses, you cannot dissolve the 50-long year of Modi's tapasya (struggle) in dust," the prime minister had said at Pratapgarh rally. "By tarnishing my image and by making me small, these people want to make an unstable and a weak government in the country," he had said.

“Modi Ji, The battle is over. Your Karma awaits you. Projecting your inner beliefs about yourself onto my father won’t protect you. All my love and a huge hug,” tweeted Rahul Gandhi.

Polling officials are being dispatched to their respective polling stations for the fifth phase of Lok Sabha Elections 2019 in Ayodhya . The voting for the fifth phase will take place tomorrow.

Bhopal District Election Officer has sent a notice to the BJP candidate from Bhopal, Pragya Singh Thakur over complaint of her campaigning during the 3-day period when she was barred by EC from campaigning. The officer has sought a reply from her.

"Get inside your houses and do not try to show your smartness here. There will be no place to hide. I will drag you out of your house and kill you like a dog.... I will bring over 1,000 men from UP, put them inside your residence and teach you a lesson," the BJP nominee said while campaigning in Ghatal constituency.

Senior TMC leader Parthat Chatterjee said in Kolkata that the party will move the EC to complaint against Ghosh, who was once the superintendent of police in West Midnapore district in which Ghatal falls, for this comment.