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Indians are voting in the next-to-last round of 6-week-long national elections, marked by a highly acrimonious campaign with Prime Minister Narendra Modi flaying the opposition Congress party rival Rahul Gandhi for the country's ills.
Ahead of the commencement of polling in West Bengal on Sunday, three BJP workers were attacked in separate incidents, officials said.
In East Medinipur, BJP workers Ananta Guchait and Ranjit Maity were shot at last night in Bhagabanpur area. The injured were admitted to a hospital soon after the incident and are undergoing treatment. Meanwhile, BJP worker Raman Singh was found dead in Gopiballabpur area of Jhargram.
Polling in West Bengal in almost all the phases has been marred by violence, primarily due to clashes between BJP and TMC workers.
Sunday's voting in 59 constituencies, including seven in the Indian capital, will complete polling for 483 of 543 seats in the lower house of Parliament. The voting for the remaining 60 seats will be held on May 19.
Votes will be counted on May 23.
Turnout in the first five phases averaged 67 per cent, nearly the same as in 2014 elections that brought Modi to power.
Opinion polls say Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party continues to be the front-runner, but it is likely to return with a lesser number of 282 seats.
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Voters disappointed as names missing from list
Mohammad Shokeen and 12 members of his family could not cast their votes on Sunday as their names were missing from voter’s list despite the fact they have been living at same address in Delhi for 32 years.
The 68-year-old, who lives with his family in South Delhi’s Sangam Vihar D Block, is not alone, but there are many people like them who could not exercise their franchise in this Lok Sabha election. “This is not acceptable. We are the original residents of this area. We have not changed residence and have all documents. Nobody came to our house to gave us slips. We have been voting for so many years,” said a furious Shokeen.
Delhi Chief Electoral Officer Ranbir Singh said he and his office had been telling people to check their names in voter lists from the last six months.
“Several awareness campaigns were there. They should have checked names before going to vote. If their names were not there they should have filled form 6. We were accepting forms till April 13,” Singh said.
Sanjay Kumar, 39, a resident of Tughlaqabad Extension who works in a private company, also rued that he could not vote.
“This is disgusting. I have my own house here and have been living since my birth, I have an Aadhar card, ration card, pan card and other all documents. I have been waiting for the last three hours, but my name is not there. I don’t know whom to approach now,” Kumar said.
The ruling Aam Aadmi Party has been alleging that lakhs of names of voters have been deleted, even as poll body rejected its allegations.
“I came to vote early morning and waited for two hours while they tried to locate my name. I have been voting here for four decades and despite that my name was missing from the list,” said 66-year-old Ranbir Anand, who is a retired government employee living in New Delhi.
Firoz Ahmad, a resident of Chandni Chowk faced a similar situation.
“Three of my family members could not vote as their names were not there. They had to go back,” the 32-year-old cloth trader said.
Hardik Sharma, a first-time voter, was disappointed that he could not take a selfie with his inked finger as his name was missing the voter’s list despite appearing in the voters’ list online.
“I do not know what happened. I do not know if I will be allowed to vote. The prime minister stresses that first-timers should vote in large numbers, but you have seen the situation yourself,” Sharma, a resident of Janakpuri, said.
Taking to Twitter, Delhi Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot said, “Voters unable to find their votes at polling booths. It is true that on large scale votes have been deleted. All these are resident of Jai Vihar I, Najafgarh.”
He asked what the ECI had to say about this and sought to know who was responsible for the voters’ constitutional right to be taken away like this.
“Vote deleted this time. All are regularly voting in the past.” Delhi Home Minister Satyendar Jain tweeted with images of voter identity cards of people whose names were not in the list.
Over 1.43 crore people in Delhi are eligible to vote in this election which will decide the fate of 164 candidates, of which 18 are women. There are 43 independent candidates.
While 2,54,723 voters are in the age group of 18 and 19, there are 40,532 electorate with disability who would be provided pick up and drop facility. (PTI)
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A TMC rally in South Kolkata
Mamata Banerjee's TMC begins a rally in Chetla in South Kolkata. Video: Abhishek Sengupta/Khaleej Times#LokSabhaElections2019
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- Khaleej Times (@khaleejtimes) May 12, 2019
CEC Sunil Arora, EC Sushil Chandra cast votes in Delhi11:35am
Read @ANi story | https://t.co/rYNR0RbhsD pic.twitter.com/G3aKOUEugj
- ANI Digital (@ani_digital) May 12, 2019
Congress General Secretary for UP (East), Priyanka Gandhi Vadra after casting her vote in Delhi: It's a really important election because we are fighting to save democracy, for our country, and keeping that in mind I cast my vote.#Phase6 #LokSabhaElections2019 pic.twitter.com/Te7u4LYsFf"It's clear that the BJP is losing the elections. I am hopeful that the results in Delhi will also be good," she said. Slamming Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not speaking on the poll promises made during the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, she said her party's campaign was not negative as it was of the BJP.
- ANI (@ANI) May 12, 2019
Delhi's oldest voter, 111-year old Bachan Singh after casting his vote at a polling booth in Sant Garh. #Phase6 #LokSabhaElections2019 pic.twitter.com/RP6MIAsk5BDelhi Election Commission officials said that Singh was the oldest voter in Delhi.
- ANI (@ANI) May 12, 2019
A mob like situation in Keshpur, that is a part of the highly volatile and controversial Ghatal Lok Sabha constituency.10:20am
Video: Abhishek Sengupta/KT#LokSabhaElections2019
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- Khaleej Times (@khaleejtimes) May 12, 2019
Pravesh Verma, the #BJP candidate from West Delhi is absolutely confident of winning. #LokSabhaElections20199:40am
Live updates: https://t.co/V5eWMtvgjq
Video by Allan Jacob/KT pic.twitter.com/vv0ZvcgKAJ
- Khaleej Times (@khaleejtimes) May 12, 2019
#BJP candidate from West Delhi #PraveshVerma is on a strong wicket from the constituency. His father Sahib Singh Verma was the former Chief Minister of New Delhi. #LokSabhaElections20199:30am
Live updates: https://t.co/V5eWMtvgjq
Photo by Allan Jacob/KT pic.twitter.com/wFaQ8IO11Q
- Khaleej Times (@khaleejtimes) May 12, 2019
Polling booth no 138. Harekas chats up some BJP officials in New Delhi.#LokSabhaElections2019 Live updates: https://t.co/V5eWMtvgjq9:20am
Video by Allan Jacob/KT pic.twitter.com/waN5TKb2VV
- Khaleej Times (@khaleejtimes) May 12, 2019
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal casts his vote at a polling booth in Civil Lines. #LokSabhaElections2019 #Phase6 pic.twitter.com/AtVTdUMItm9:15am
- ANI (@ANI) May 12, 2019
Congress President Rahul Gandhi after casting his vote: The election was fought on key issues including demonetization, farmer problems, Gabbar Singh Tax and corruption in #Rafale. Narendra Modi used hatred in the campaign and we used love and I am confident love will win pic.twitter.com/gE1BgvQzPcGandhi told the media after voting in the New Delhi parliamentary constituency that the three or four main issues in this election included unemployment, farm distress, a poor economy and corruption. He declined to comment on the number of seats the Congress could win in the election. "The people will decide that," he said.
- ANI (@ANI) May 12, 2019
#IndiaElections2019: Major clashes were reported in Keshpur, Ghatal constituency in #WestBengal. Media vehicles were vandalised during poll-related violence.He was rushed to a hospital where he was declared dead, police said. The BJP accused miscreants backed by the Trinamool Congress for the crime. Incidents of sporadic violence were reported from Midnapore constituency where the saffron party's state unit chief Dilip Ghosh is engaged in a high profile battle with Trinamool Congress' Rajya Sabha member Manas Bhunia.
Photos: Abhishek Sengupta/KT
#LokSabhaElections2019 Live updates: https://t.co/V5eWMtvgjq pic.twitter.com/AAnntZ4lRx
- Khaleej Times (@khaleejtimes) May 12, 2019
West Bengal: Vehicles in BJP Candidate from Ghatal, Bharti Ghosh's convoy vandalized. BJP has alleged that TMC workers are behind the attack pic.twitter.com/xdsJNkKhV8At least four Trinamool Party activists had to be hospitalized after being attacked with sharp weapons allegedly by BJP supporters. The condition of one person was critical. Meanwhile, a number of saffron party supporters got injured in the constituency's Datan area following a clash with Trinamool workers.
- ANI (@ANI) May 12, 2019
#IndiaElections2019 Long queue past at #Ranirbazar polling station in #Ghatal constituency in #WestBengal. Security officers say so far with no violence in the volatile constituency. Video: Abhishek Sengupta/KT8:15am
#LokSabhaElections2019? Live updates: https://t.co/V5eWMtvgjq pic.twitter.com/4xXZfSitXB
- Khaleej Times (@khaleejtimes) May 12, 2019
#IndiaElections2019 : A security official helps a physically challenged man, Lochan Kumar, after he casts his vote in #Delhi. Photo by Allan Jacob/Khaleej Times7:45am
#LokSabhaElections2019? live updates: https://t.co/V5eWMtvgjq pic.twitter.com/WENAQlGCBJ
- Khaleej Times (@khaleejtimes) May 12, 2019
Delhi: Former Delhi CM and Congress's candidate from North-East Delhi, Sheila Dikshit after casting her vote at a polling booth in Nizamuddin (East). #Phase6 #LokSabhaElections2019 pic.twitter.com/Gog0f9uHB67:10am
- ANI (@ANI) May 12, 2019
BJP Candidate from East Delhi Gautam Gambhir casts his vote at a polling booth in Old Rajinder Nagar. He is up against AAP's Atishi and Congress's Arvinder Singh Lovely pic.twitter.com/uzQZdH7qzNGambhir and his wife voted at a polling station in Old Rajendra Nagar area. He is pitted against Congress's Arvinder Singh Lovely and Aam Aadmi Party's Atishi in a triangular contest.
- ANI (@ANI) May 12, 2019
Yet another phase of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections is here!"Yet another phase of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections is here! Urging all those whose constituencies are polling in today's sixth phase to go out and vote," he said in a tweet.
Urging all those whose constituencies are polling in today's sixth phase to go out and vote. I hope youngsters are voting in record numbers. After all, their participation makes the polls even more special.
- Chowkidar Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) May 12, 2019
Haryana: Team India Captain Virat Kohli after casting his vote at a polling booth in Pinecrest School in Gurugram pic.twitter.com/z3vzJvxWSpAfter casting his vote here, he told reporters: "Everyone should come and vote and I urge to all."Donning casual clothes, he came to the polling booth along with his brother.
- ANI (@ANI) May 12, 2019
#IndiaElections2019: People cast their votes at a booth run by all-women officers in #Daspur, #WestBengal. Photos by Abhishek Sengupta/Khaleej Times
#LokSabhaElections2019 live updates: https://t.co/V5eWMtvgjq pic.twitter.com/cEc7yeuxkd
- Khaleej Times (@khaleejtimes) May 12, 2019
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