Key Points
New Delhi: Polling is underway across 8 states/UTs in this phase of the Lok Sabha elections 2024..
The 58 seats where polling is underway includes all 10 seats in Haryana and all 7 in Delhi, besides 14 in Uttar Pradesh, 8 each in Bihar and West Bengal, 6 in Odisha, 4 in Jharkhand and 1 in Jammu and Kashmir..
Of the 58 seats where polling is underway, BJP won 40, BJD and BSP won 4 each and TMC and JD(U) 3 each in 2019...
Voting is also being held simultaneously in 42 assembly seats in Odisha.. 10:30 am: PDP chief and candidate from Anantnag, J&K Mehbooba Mufti has alleged that PDP polling agents & workers have been detained a few hours before the election..
Former Congress presidents Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, along with Election Commissioner Sukhbir Singh Sandhu, former Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra, Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan and Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik also exercised their right to vote in their respective constituencies within the first few hours of polling.nt..
