Lok Sabha Election 2024 Phase 2 Live: Manipur votes peacefully, information voter turnout of 77.18%

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: The Election Commission knowledge said {that a} voter turnout of 77.18 per cent was recorded by the tip of polling within the remaining areas of the Outer Manipur Lok Sabha constituency on Friday.

– They added that the Mao meeting phase within the Senapati district recorded the very best turnout at 89.84 per cent. 

– According to an election official, a lot of the polling personnel with EVMs have safely reached the respective district headquarters. 

– The official talked about situations of intimidation by suspected militants, altercations between Congress and NPF supporters, and harm to some EVMs at a polling station within the Tangkhul Naga-dominated hill district.

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: Congress chief Mohammed Arif (Naseem) Khan has reportedly penned a letter to celebration president Mallikarjun Kharge, asserting his resignation as a star campaigner for the remaining phases of the Lok Sabha polls.

In his letter, Khan expressed his disappointment with the MVA (Maha Vikas Aghadi) for not fielding any Muslim candidates in Maharashtra, saying, “MVA (Maha Vikas Aghadi) has not nominated a single Muslim candidate in Maharashtra. I am upset with the party’s unfair decision”

(ANI)

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Phase 2 Live: Jammu constituency witnessed over 67 per cent voter turnout throughout the first 4 hours of polling in the course of the second section of the Lok Sabha elections on Friday, in response to the Election Commission.

– Election officers said that the polling, which commenced at 7 a.m., took place throughout 2,416 polling stations within the constituency and proceeded peacefully. By 5 p.m., 67.22 per cent of votes had been solid. The constituency boasts greater than 17.80 lakh eligible voters. 

– A complete of twenty-two candidates, together with incumbent MP Jugal Kishore Sharma, are vying for victory. Sharma seeks a 3rd time period after securing the seat for the BJP in 2014 and 2019. 

– The INDIA bloc has put ahead Jammu and Kashmir Congress working president Raman Bhalla as their candidate.

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Phase 2 Live: In the second section of the Lok Sabha elections 2024 on Friday, a voter turnout of 64% was noticed throughout 88 constituencies spanning 13 states and Union territories till 5 pm. Tripura’s single seat witnessed the very best turnout at 77.93%, adopted by Chhattisgarh’s three constituencies at 72.13% and West Bengal’s three seats at 71.84%.

While Bihar skilled a rise in polling proportion in comparison with the primary section, it remained barely above Uttar Pradesh at 53.03%. Notable figures embody Kishanganj with a voter turnout of 56.12%, Katihar with 55.54%, Purnea with 55.14%, Bhagalpur with 47.26%, and Banka with 49.50%, all recorded till 5 pm in response to officers.Dig deeper

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Phase 2 Live: During the second section of the final elections, over 72 per cent of voters solid their votes by 5 p.m. in three Lok Sabha constituencies in Chhattisgarh. 

According to PTI, the constituencies, all with a Naxalite presence, noticed important voter turnout. Polling occurred below tight safety measures. 

A police officer on election obligation reportedly took his personal life by taking pictures himself with a service weapon in Gariab and the district. 

Voting commenced at 7 am within the Kanker, Rajnandgaon, and Mahasamund Lok Sabha constituencies, performed in staggered time slots all through the day.

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Phase 2 Live: NPF (Naga People’s Front) candidate from the Outer Manipur Lok Sabha seat, Kachui Timothy Zimik, spoke to the information company ANI about “two communities combating within the state” and said that he’ll work on the difficulty.

“Winning is a certainty. The question is how big the margin will be. There are so many issues. I will be looking after each issue and will solve them… Two communities are having a big fight. This is one issue we have to address. We definitely believe these communities should come together and have a dialogue to bring peace… Our people need peace and development… As far as development is concerned, we need to address many issues.”

(ANI)

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Phase 2 Live: Voting concluded within the Aligarh constituency of Uttar Pradesh, in response to the information company ANI. As of 5 pm voter turnout was recorded at about 54.36 p.c, as per the Election Commission of India (ECI).

At a polling sales space in Aligarh, the Presiding officer says, “Elections have been concluded peacefully. Voting has been closed. EVMs will be sent to the strong room.”

As of 5 pm, the ECI knowledge confirmed a voter turnout of about 52.74 per cent within the second section of Lok Sabha elections 2024 throughout eight parliamentary constituencies in Uttar Pradesh.

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: Manipur’s Chief Electoral Officer, Pradeep Kumar Jha, talking to ANI concerning the section 2 voting for the Lok Sabha elections, stated that the voting largely remained peaceable apart from one EVM harm incident within the northeastern state. The Outer Manipur constituency went for voting at present.

“Regarding the Outer Manipur parliamentary constituency, comprising 13 meeting segments, the voting has remained peaceable. Only one incident of injury to an EVM has been reported up to now. We are wanting into it, and we’ve been following up with all of the districts. They have reported that voting has been peaceable, with folks turning out in enormous numbers. Compared to earlier elections, the election in Outer Manipur has been very peaceable. We are very hopeful that by late night at present, we should always have a transparent image. Except for one or two incidents, nothing main has occurred, and voting has been very encouraging. Until the final report we acquired about an hour in the past, the voting proportion was within the vary of 75%, and no main hiccups have been reported,” he stated.

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: BJP chief Uma Bharti casts her vote at a polling sales space in Tikamgarh, Madhya Pradesh. 

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: A 94-year-old lady solid her vote after walking to a polling station within the Ukhrul district of Outer Manipur on Friday for the second section of the Lok Sabha elections. Volunteers have been seen helping the elderly on the polling station in Manipur as polling commenced for the remaining a part of the Outer Manipur parliamentary constituency on Friday. 

The voting is taking place at 857 polling stations throughout 13 meeting segments in eight districts within the second section at present.

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: Tripura is main the voter turnout charts as 68.92 per cent voting proportion was recorded within the state until 3 pm as per the info launched by the Election Commission of India. Other States the place greater voter turnout has been recorded are – Manipur (68.48 per cent), Chhattisgarh (63.92 per cent), West Bengal (60.60 per cent), and Assam (60.32 per cent).

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: BJP MP and candidate from Gautam Buddh Nagar, Mahesh Sharma, alongside along with his 84-year-old mom, Lalita Devi, solid his vote at a polling sales space in Noida, Uttar Pradesh.

Speaking to the media, Sharma stated that the folks of this nation, and particularly Uttar Pradesh, have made up their minds to re-elect Narendra Modi as Prime Minister for the third time. “What we feel is that by 2047, we will be a developed nation,” he advised PTI.

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: An general voter turnout of fifty.25 per cent was recorded at 3 pm, in response to the Election Commission knowledge. 

BJP MP and Bengaluru South candidate has been booked for posting a video in ‘X’ deal with and soliciting votes on the bottom of faith, the Karnataka chief electoral officer stated.

Assam 60.32% 

Bihar 44.24% 

Chhattisgarh 63.32% 

Jammu and Kashmir 57.76% 

Karnataka 50.93% 

Kerala 51.64% 

Madhya Pradesh 46.50% 

Maharashtra 43.01% 

Manipur 68.48% 

Rajasthan 50.27% 

Tripura 68.92% 

Uttar Pradesh 44.13% 

West Bengal 60.60%

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: Rajasthan deputy chief minister and BJP chief Prem Chand Bairwa solid his vote at a polling sales space in Dudu, Rajasthan.

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: For the primary time, Tripura’s newly settled Bru voters exercised their franchise for the General Elections to Lok Sabha 2024 on Friday. Earlier, they’d voted within the meeting elections held in March of final yr.

Notably, the Bru migrants, who had been staying in six reduction camps within the North Tripura district until 2020, have now acquired everlasting settlement in 12 areas throughout the state.

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: Former overseas secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla solid his vote at a polling sales space in Darjeeling at present. 

“I was quite satisfied with the way people were coming in. I think the voter turnout was good, a lot of women voters turned up. It is very important in the second phase that there is a record turnout of voters. PM Modi has also said that your vote strengthens our democracy,” he advised the media outdoors the sales space. 

Maharashtra has recorded the bottom voting proportion up to now within the section 2 of the Lok Sabha election. According to the Election Commission knowledge, the state has recorded a voter turnout of 31.77% until 1 pm. 

What is the voter turnout of every constituency until 1 pm? 

Amravati – 31.40% 

Nanded – 32.93%

Parbhani – 33.88% 

Buldhana – 29.07% 

Yavatmal Washim – 31.47% 

Akola – 32.25% 

Wardha – 32.32% 

Hingoli – 30.46%

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray expressed confidence that Mumbai Congress president Varsha Gaikwad will emerge victorious from the Mumbai North Central seat. 

– Thackeray, referring to Gaikwad as his younger sister, affirmed that she would obtain his vote, being a constituent of the Mumbai North Central Lok Sabha constituency. 

– Thackeray assured the total assist of his celebration for the victory of Varsha Gaikwad.

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: Bengaluru, together with different areas of Karnataka, is collaborating within the second section of Lok Sabha elections. Notable stars from the Kannada movie trade have additionally joined in to train their voting rights on this important day. 

– Yash, famend for his position within the film “KGF,” was noticed at a polling station in Bengaluru’s Hosakerehalli as he solid his vote. Additionally, he engaged in conversations with fellow voters current on the venue. 

– Rakshit Shetty, one other distinguished determine within the Sandalwood trade, selected to return to his hometown, Udupi, to vote. Accompanied by his members of the family, he visited a polling sales space in Udupi and fulfilled his civic obligation by casting his vote. Read extra 

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Director-General of Police (DGP) Prashant Kumar stated that on at the present time, the second section of the Lok Sabha election commenced at 7 pm in eight parliamentary constituencies throughout 9 districts.

– He talked about that the voting course of was peaceable, and no untoward incident had been reported to this point.

– It was conveyed that each one personnel on the sector have been repeatedly monitoring the scenario, because the requirements of the EC power had been deployed. It was additional famous that 239 power firms had been deployed.

– According to the Election Commission of India’s knowledge, voter turnout within the state’s complete constituencies was 35.73 per cent as of 1 pm.

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Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: Overall voter turnout within the second section of voting, being performed throughout 12 states and one Union Territory, stood at 39.13 p.c till 1 pm, in response to the Election Commission of India.

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: Bageshwar Dham Dhirendra Shastri solid his vote in in Madhya Pradesh’s Khajuraho. “It is everyone’s right. This is the festival of democracy. Every Indian citizen should cast their vote in this festival. ‘Pehle Matdaan fir Jalpaan’… Do vote wisely to strengthen your nation for the national interest… We are contributing to strengthening the democracy and national interest,” he stated. 

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: Tripura has recorded the very best voter turnout of 54.47 p.c until 1 pm, as in comparison with the remainder of the 12 states. 

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: Residents of a village within the Parbhani Lok Sabha constituency determined to boycott the elections on Friday to protest in opposition to the difficulty of encroachments. Following this, the district collector and returning officer Raghunath Gawde visited the world and interacted with villagers, urging them to vote.

Assam 46.31% 

Bihar 33.80% 

Chhattisgarh 53.09% 

Jammu And Kashmir 42.88% 

Karnataka 38.23% 

Kerala 39.26% 

Madhya Pradesh 38.96% 

Maharashtra 31.77% 

Manipur 54.26% 

Rajasthan 40.39% 

Tripura 54.47% 

Uttar Pradesh 35.73% 

West Bengal 47.29%

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: A resident of Wardha, Vinod Kshirsagar, arrives at a polling sales space along with his pet Langur ‘Bajrang’ to solid his vote.

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: A complete of 31.2 p.c voter turnout has been recorded until 11 am in West Bengal. 

Balurghat: 28.1% 

Darjeeling: 32.7% 

Raiganj: 32.5%

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: RLD chief Jayant Chaudhary and his spouse Charu Chaudhari solid a vote in Mathura.

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: Karnataka deputy chief minister and Congress chief DK Shivakumar casts his vote in Kanakapura. His brother and Congress chief DK Suresh is contesting from Bangalore Rural constituency.

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: BJP MP Hema Malini, who’s contesting the Lok Sabha elections from UP’s Mathura seat, stated on Friday that she would win the elections by a margin of over six lakh votes. “There are talks of 6 lakh or 7 lakh. Whatever occurs. It’ll be excellent,” Hema Malini was quoted by information company PTI as saying. Read extra right here

Assam 27.43% 

Bihar 21.68% 

Chhattisgarh 35.47% 

Jammu and Kashmir 26.61% 

Karnataka 22.34% 

Kerala 25.61% 

Madhya Pradesh 28.15% 

Maharashtra 18.83% 

Manipur 33.22% 

Rajasthan 26.84% 

Tripura 36.42% 

Uttar Pradesh 24.31% 

West Bengal 31.25%

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: BJP Rajya Sabha MP and former chief minister Ashok Chavan solid his vote at a municipal faculty in Nanded, alongside along with his two daughters and spouse and former MLA Asmita Chavan.

Amravati – 17.73% 

Nanded – 20.85%

Parbhani – 21.77% 

Buldhana – 17.92% 

Yavatmal Washim – 18.01%

Akola – 17.37% 

Wardha – 18.35%

Hingoli – 18.19%

Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: The Dikholi village in Uttar Pradesh witnessed a voter turnout of solely 5 per cent (75 voters) until 11:30 am. According to the villagers, individuals are exhibiting much less curiosity in polling, whereas others are busy in harvesting wheat crops.

Lok Sabha Election Live: ISRO chief S Somanath queues up together with different votes at a polling station in Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala.

Lok Sabha election Live: Former ISRO Scientist Nambi Narayanan in a message to voters, stated, “In Kerala, the community is more educated, I hope they understand who rules the centre and state…They also must fathom who is suitable for them. No matter whether you like the system or not, you should vote, as it matters a lot. The only message I will give to the younger generation is to make sure you vote and go to the polling booth at the earliest before the sun comes very hot.”

Outer Manipur has witnessed a complete of 33.22 p.c voter turnout until 11 am.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah appealed to the voters of the nation to elect a celebration that “stands on its words” for a safe and affluent nation and the welfare of the poor. 

Taking a dig on the Congress, he stated, “After Congress manifesto was released, people’s inclination towards BJP has further increased because, in its manifesto, Congress has repeated its old habit of appeasement. Congress’s manifesto speaks of taking forward personal law. I would like to ask Rahul Gandhi, will this country now work as per Sharia?”

“Our Constitution is secular, laws of the land can’t be formed on the basis of religion. BJP has clearly said in its manifesto that it will bring Uniform Civil Code (UCC)…We scrapped Triple Talaq and started UCC & we will take this forward. Rahul Gandhi speaks of Pesonal Law, that is about dividing the country…Personal Laws can’t be implemented in this country…I am confident that we will see Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister of the country for the third time,” he added, as quoted by ANI.

Congress candidate from Chhattisgarh’s Rajnandgaon, Bhupesh Baghel visits completely different polling cubicles within the parliamentary constituency and likewise interacts with voters. 

Total voter turnout in Gautam Buddha Nagar – 24:48%

Noida – 21.3% 

Dadri – 24.80% 63

Jewar –  25.87% 

Secunderabad – 27.17% 

Khurja – 26.22% 

Voter turnout in Ghaziabad constituencies:

Loni – 26.87%

Muradnagar – 24.39% 

Sahibabad – 20.09% 

Ghaziabad – 20.85% 

Dhaulana – 27.65%

Uttar Pradesh’s Aligarh has recorded a voter turnout of 24.35 p.c until 11 am within the section two of Lok Sabha election.

Film actor and producer Tovino Thomas on Friday solid his vote at a polling sales space in Irinjalakuda, Thrissur. Tovino is the state model ambassador for the Election Commission’s SWEEP (Systematic Voters Education and Electoral Participation) program.

According to the Election Commission knowledge, a voter turnout of 23.19 p.c has been recorded in Mathura by 11 am. BJP candidate Hema Malini is sitting MP from Mathura.

BJP candidate from Amravati Navnit Rana alongside together with her husband Ravi Rana solid their vote in Lok Sabha polls, at a polling sales space in Amravati.