INDIAN ELECTION NEWS: The first phase of polling out of five of elections to Lok Sabha has begun on Thursday on a moderate note. This phase of election polls will decide the fate of RJD chief Lalu Prasad, BJP's Murli Manohar Joshi and Yashwant Sinha and TRS president K Chandrasekar Rao.
The voting began in 124 constituencies that is spread across 15 states and 2 union territories. In most places the polling will close at 1700 hrs and in naxal-infested areas at 1500 hrs.
More than 14.31 crore voters are eligible to cast their ballot across 1.85 lakh polling stations in the 124 constituencies set up by the Election Commission and secured by tens of thousands of police personnel.
In today’s poll 154 assembly segments in Andhra Pradesh and 70 in Orissa have also been included.
All over is 20 seats in Kerala, 11 in Chhattisgarh and 2 each in Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya, 13 out of 40 seats in Bihar, 16 out of 80 in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra 13 (48), Andhra Pradesh 22 (42), Jharkhand 6 (14), Orissa 10 (21), Assam 3 (14), Manipur 1 (2) and Jammu and Kashmir 1 (6). Single seats in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Mizoram and Nagaland are also being covered in this first phase of election.
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