NDTV Explains: Form 17C And Row Over Poll Panel's Voter Turnout Data

A row over access to voter turnout data - including critical information about number of votes polled and/or rejected at each booth as available in Form 17C and Form 17C (Part II) - has made headlines as India selects a new union government.

BJP leader and Pilibhit MP Varun Gandhi reached Sultanpur on Thursday to campaign for his mother Maneka Gandhi who is in the fray from the seat on a BJP ticket.

Of the 8,337 candidates contesting in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, as many as 1,644 have criminal cases registered against them, according to an analysis of the data shared by the poll rights body Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR).

Multiple social media users shared a video showing a group standing on a goods carrier and purportedly holding EVMs in their hands. The voice in the background, seemingly of the person recording the video, claims that the BJP was doing an EVM scam.

It is the year of elections. India, which is in the middle of a six-week-long general elections, is the "only thing that looks stable", says top US political scientist Ian Bremmer.

Less than 10 per cent of the candidates contesting in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections are women, according to an analysis of data shared by the poll rights body Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR).