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.
According to the Chief Electoral Officer Puneet Agarwal, the scrutiny of the EVMs will be conducted on Saturday which will eventually help the poll authorities to ascertain the final turnout which is expected to rise.
Kerala, where polling concluded for all 20 Lok Sabha seats in the second phase of the general elections on Friday, recorded a voter turnout of 70.21 per cent till the last report, according to data shared by the Election Commission (EC).
Manipur Chief Electoral Officer, Pradeep Kumar Jha on Friday highlighted higher turnout and minimal incidents of violence in Outer Manipur in the second phase of Lok Sabha polls.
"In Maharashtra, there is a lot of anger in people and organisations of minority communities, because there is not a single candidate from minority communities in 48 Lok Sabha seats. I am also angry because it has been Congress's ideology from the old days to take everyone along, irrespec
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav expressed confidence that the result will be in BJP's favour in all the 12 seats where the elections have been conducted till now in the first and second phase in the state.
Bharatiya Janata Party national president JP Nadda gave credit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for making India one of the world's largest economies and said that he has brought a change in the country and has been moving ahead with new development plans during the past decade.
Speaking at a Prajadhwani-2 Lok Sabha election campaign meeting in Vijayapura city on behalf of Congress candidate Raju Halaguru, Siddaramaiah emphasized the importance of social, economic, and political freedom in building an egalitarian society.
"In the reservation system that was given under the Mandal commission, some castes in the Muslim community were included in the backward classes calling them Pasmandas intentionally to get rights," Hussain said speaking to ANI on Friday.
AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi said that the BJP Hyderabad candidates' gesture to shoot an arrow purportedly in the direction of a mosque was an "attempt to destroy the peace" of the Hyderabad.
Karnataka Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao asserted confidence that the results of the Lok Sabha elections will be in the Congress party's favour as the voting concluded for 14 out of 28 seats in the state on Friday.