Srinagar Records Highest Voter Turnout Since 1996 In Lok Sabha Polls

A voter turnout of more than 36 per cent took place in the redrawn Srinagar Lok Sabha seat without any untoward incident on Monday, the highest since 1996 when the constituency in Jammu and Kashmir recorded nearly 41 per cent polling.

Poll percentage crossed the halfway mark in West Bengal at 51.9%, while in Madhya Pradesh it stood at 48.5%.

The CCTV cameras at the strongroom where Electronic Voting machines were stored for the Baramati Lok Sabha Constituency, was switched off for 45 minutes, the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) has alleged.

A 92-year-old woman, who wanted to cast her vote, was taken to the voting booth by four men on a cot in Uttar Pradesh's Hardoi, during the fourth phase of voting today.

AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal, his wife Sunita Kejriwal, and Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann were on Monday included in the party's list of 40 star campaigners in the state for the Lok Sabha elections.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday fired a fresh salvo against Rahul Gandhi and the Congress, for making "lofty promises disconnected with reality" during the Lok Sabha poll campaign without explaining where the huge funds to