The sixth phase of Lok Sabha polls includes eight seats in Bihar, all 10 seats in Haryana, one seat in Jammu and Kashmir, four in Jharkhand, all seven seats in Delhi, six in Odisha, 14 in Uttar Pradesh, and eight in West Bengal. A total of 889 candidates are in the fray.
Voting for the sixth phase of the ongoing Lok Sabha elections began on Saturday morning across 58 parliamentary constituencies spread over six states and two Union Territories (UTs) amid tight security and arrangements.
As the polling day got underway in New Delhi, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar cast his vote and expressed his confidence that the Delhi voters will once again support the Modi government and Viksit Bharat.
Aam Aadmi Party leader and Delhi minister Atishi on Friday in a social media post accused Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena of ordering Delhi police to impede voting in areas that have supporters of INDI alliance.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday alleged that the Punjab government is being controlled by top leaders of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) sitting, adding that the Chief Minister of state cannot make a single decision on his own.
Calling the Rajya Sabha MP assault case "unfortunate," BJP National General Secretary Dushyant Kumar Gautam and said that Swati Maliwal will get "justice."
Hitting out at the Aam Aadmi Party over the Delhi excise policy scam, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that the Aam Aadmi Party are the "wholesale traders of drugs" adding that they failed to fulfil its promises related to the eradication of drugs in Punjab.
BJP leader Shehzad Poonawalla on Friday asked what secrets Bibhav Kumar holds that have caused not just Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal but the whole INDI alliance to stay silent on the Swati Maliwal assault issue.