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Claims of voter suppression are rising – from names missing from electoral rolls to physical violence.

This week, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, and Anand Vardhan are joined by The Caravan’s editor-in-chief Hartosh Singh Bal and investigative journalist Aruna Chandrashekhar.

There have been highs and lows during the country’s long voting period. Now pessimism is setting in, says author Amit Chaudhuri

Voters will decide the fate of 904 candidates contesting 57 seats in the last phase of the Lok Sabha polls on June 1.

Kejriwal said that the BJP should shun politics on the issue and help the state government address the issue. Read further on Dynamite News:

Some of India’s top social election ad spenders are Facebook pages bought and sold in violation of the company’s rules.

Four days before polling, only one face dominates political posters through Punjab’s Khadoor Sahib city. That face belongs to Amritpal Singh, whose visage is splashed across the Lok Sabha constituency of the same name. The separatist leader, currently lodged in Dibrugarh jail in Assam, is contesting as an independent candidate.

Editorial: India’s prime minister encourages a belief in his divinity, leading followers to think it is God’s purpose to spread fear and loathing

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has addressed more than twice the number of public meetings than that of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi since the beginning of the NDA and INDIA poll campaigns, shows a Newslaundry analysis.