Jharkhand Chief Electoral Officer K Ravi Kumar said that in the seventh phase, the voting percentage in Jharkhand was 70.88 percent while the overall voting percentage was 66.19 percent in all the four phases of Lok Sabha polls. He said that women outnumbered men voters in 12 out of 14 Lok S
Recounting the attack on him by the "RJD workers", on the day of seventh phase of Lok Sabha polling in Bihar, BJP leader Ram Kripal Yadav said that three to four shots were fired at his covoy on the Patna-Jehanabad road.
The polling of the last phase ended on Saturday in the 57 parliamentary constituencies spread across seven states and the Union Territory of Chandigarh.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Hooghly Lok Sabha constituency Locket Chatterjee expressed confidence in BJP winning more than 30 seats in West Bengal after voting concluded for the seventh phase of parliamentary elections in the state on Saturday.
The seventh and the final phase of polling for Lok Sabha elections on June 1 across seven states and the Union Territory of Chandigarh saw a voter turnout of 58.34 per cent till 5 pm, the Election Commission (ECI) said on Saturday.
West Bengal BJP chief and Lok Sabha candidate from Balurghat Sukant Majumdar hit out at the West Bengal Government over the "deteriorating law and order" situation in Bengal as violent clashes erupted between the TMC and ISF on the day of polling in the seventh phase of Lok Sabha election
Actor Ayushmann Khurrana, who hails from Chandigarh, specially travelled to the capital of Punjab from Mumbai to fulfil his duties towards the country by casting his vote in the final and seventh phase of the Lok Sabha Elections on Saturday.
The seventh phase marks a grand finish to the world's largest polling marathon that began on 19th of last month and already covered six phases and 486 Lok Sabha seats.
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.