Adequate forces including police, Home Guards, and Central Paramilitary Forces will be deployed in the national capital for the Lok Sabha polls on May 25 and there would be nothing to worry about, said Delhi Chief Electoral Officer P Krishnamurthy on Monday.
Voting lasted till 10 pm in some booths of Vadakara constituency. Voting was delayed in some booths of Vadakara, Kozhikode, Malappuram, Ponnani and Alathur constituencies.
As Bengaluru prepares for the second phase of Lok Sabha elections on April 26, a pink booth model has been set up in the Ramnagar district of Bangalore Rural constituency for women voters, decorated with balloons, banners and chairs with pink colour etc.
Re-polling will be held today in 11 booths in the I-Inner Manipur Parliamentary Constituency after incidents of violence were reported at some of the polling booths in conflict-torn Manipur where some miscreants opened fire and even destroyed EVMs.
Days after 29 Naxalites were killed in an encounter, Bastar Inspector General of Police (IG) P Sundarraj said on Friday that people are reaching the polling booths with full enthusiasm and confidence in the region as three-layer cordon security arrangements have been made in the area.
As the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections began today across 102 parliamentary constituencies spread over 21 states and Union Territories, there's a lot of excitement among the people throughout the country.
Amidst the first phase of voting in Lok Sabha elections, Congress candidate from West Bengal's Cooch Behar, Piya Roy Chowdhury, cast her vote and claimed that the BJP and TMC party are threatening people on the polling booths.
Chhindwara district collector Sheelendra Singh said, "There are a total of 1940 polling stations in the district where voting will be done on Friday, April 19. The polling will begin from 7 am and will continue till 6 pm in the district. Voters will be able to exercise their franchise on the
Superintendent of Police (SP, Sidhi) Ravindra Verma told ANI, "All the preparations have almost been completed and we have received the forces that are going to be deployed in polling booths and other duties. There are approximately 2,500 police personnel who will be deployed in polling boot
There are approximately around 1,64,000 booths in Uttar Pradesh, with nearly 20,000 of them being Muslim-majority booths, where fraudulent voting is carried out under the veil. To prevent this, the Minority Wing has prepared a strategy in collaboration with Muslim women activists.