<p><strong>Breaking News Live</strong>: Hello and welcome to breaking news live blog. Please follow this space for all the breaking news and latest updates from India and around the world.</p> <p><strong>Amit Shah To Launch 'En Mann, En Makkal' Padayatra On July 28</strong></p> <p>The Tamil Nadu BJP plans to start a six-month padayatra called 'En Mann, En Makkal' (My Land, My People) on July 28 in order to secure a decisive mandate for party leader Narendra Modi to be re-elected Prime Minister for a third term in 2024, PTI reported.</p> <p>The party's top national leader and Union Home Minister Amit Shah will open the electoral campaign, which will encompass 234 assembly seats in the state, on Friday evening in the temple town of Rameswaram, BJP state president K Annamalai said here on Thursday.</p> <p>"The campaign will be conducted in five phases to cover all the 39 Parliamentary constituencies and we have planned to conclude it on January 11, 2024, ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. After Amit Shahji's inauguration, the campaign will commence from Rameswaram on July 29," Annamalai told reporters.</p> <p><strong>Karnataka HC To Hear Petition To Disqualify CM Siddaramaiah On July 28</strong></p> <p>The Karnataka High Court will hear a case challenging Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's election to the Assembly from the Varuna constituency on July 28, news agency PTI reported. The petition accuses the Congress party's election programme, which offered five "guarantees," of "corrupt practises amounting to bribery and undue influence under Section 123(2) of the Representation of the People Act." The petition claims that Siddaramaiah violated the Constitution as well as the regulations and principles outlined in the Representation of the People Act.</p> <p>“The said guarantees are in the nature of offer and promises made by the candidate and by the Indian National Congress party. This was done with the consent of the respondent (Siddaramaiah). They are in the form of gratification to the electorate of Varuna Constituency and with the object of directly inducing the electorate to vote for the Congress party candidate namely the respondent. The consideration was the vote in favour of the Respondent as a gratification with the motive and reward," the petition was quoted by PTI in its report. </p>
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