"Voting is a significant festival in a democracy, and everyone should exercise their right to vote. We also believe that voting is essential, so we came with our entire family and cast our votes. Voting is proceeding peacefully, and I hope it concludes peacefully as well," Manjhi said.
Under the INDIA bloc agreement in Bihar, the RJD is vying for 26 seats, Congress for nine, and the Left parties for the remaining five out of the state's 40 Lok Sabha constituencies.
"I would appeal to the people of Bihar to cast their votes to make India Shrestha & to make Bihar 'Viksit Bihar'...I appeal to everyone to contribute to making this country Shrestha," Chowdhury said on Saturday.
The seven states in which polling is scheduled include Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal. Polling for remaining 42 Assembly Constituencies of the Odisha State Legislative Assembly will also take place simultaneously.
Ahead of the seventh phase of polling in Bihar, Patna District Magistrate Shirsat Kapil Ashok said that sufficient medical teams have been deployed at various places considering a red alert for the heatwave conditions.
Special arrangements have been made to treat heatstroke patients in the district hospital in Bihar's Aurangabad. District Hospital Civil Surgeon Dr Ravi Bhushan Srivastava said that a total of 103 patients diagnosed as suffering from heatwave have been admitted in the last 24 hours, out of w
The India Meterological Department said on Friday that heatwave conditions are expected to become less intense in Bihar, Jharkhand, and Odisha from tomorrow, June 1.
"The Southwest Monsoon has advanced into the remaining parts of the northeast Bay of Bengal and some parts of the northwest Bay of Bengal, remaining parts of Tripura, Meghalaya, Assam and most parts of Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim," said the weather department.
District Magistrate, Aurangabad, Shrikant Shastri shared the development about the casualties as part of heat-related issues and said, "5 people admitted to the hospital died. When we will get the post-mortem report, then we will get to know the exact reason."
Amid the prevailing heatwave condition in the state, the Sadar Hospital in the Nalanda district of Bihar prepared a separate ward for patients suffering from heatstroke and loo.
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a plea seeking directions to Election commission of India for re-polling at Munger parliamentary constituency, Bihar, where allegedly booth capturing had happened with the connivance of the local administration.