Appealing every voter in Jaipur to exercise their right to vote, Acharya said, "I would like to congratulate everyone on this festival of democracy. I would like to appeal people of Rajasthan and India that this is the festival of democracy and to strengthen demcracy and for the development
Former Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Chamling on Friday cast his vote at a polling booth in Namchi, Sikkim in the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections.
The Chhindwara mayor had joined the BJP on April 1 in the presence of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav and the state party president Vishnu Dutt Sharma in the state capital.
A bench of Justices B R Gavai and Sandeep Mehta, in its interim order, said such applications made to the competent authority should be decided within three days from the date of making the application.
Voting for India's parliamentary election, the largest democratic exercise in the world, began at 7 am with Election Commission urging people to exercise their franchise in maximum number
Voting for the Lok Sabha at 5 Thongju, 31 Khongman zones of Imphal was stopped after some women alleged irregularities in the polling process and created a ruckus.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee urged the migrant voters who had come to the state not to leave without voting in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, alleging that if they don't exercise their right, the Bharatiya Janata Party will take away their citizenship.
Maharashtra Minister and Ajit Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader, Chhagan Bhujbal, who was eyeing to contest as Mahayuti candidate in the Lok Sabha polls, has withdrawn from the race on Friday over the delay in the announcement of the candidate for the Nashik seat.
Madhya Pradesh recorded a robust 53.40 per cent voter turnout till 3 am in the first phase of polling for six parliamentary seats in the state, according to data released by the Election Commission on Friday.
Tripura is leading the voter turnout charts after it recorded a 68.35 voting percentage in the state till 3 pm as per the data released by the Election Commission of India.