Tripura registers highest polling.
Braving the rising temperature in most parts of the country, about 55 per cent of 200 million voters on Thursday exercised their franchise in 140 Lok Sabha constituencies spread across 12 states.
Tripura registered the highest (80%) and Maharashtra the least (35%) polling in this second phase of general elections. With this the polling has been completed in 265 of the 543 Lok Sabha constituencies.
The third round of election is scheduled on April 30 in 107 Lok sabha constituencies.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur, cast their votes in Guwahati, Assam, from where he is elected to the Rajya Sabha.
Contrary to apprehensions, the polling in Naxal-insurgency affected Jharkhand and Bihar saw only sporadic incidents of rebels trying to disrupt the election.
According to agency reports, an executive magistrate Rajendra Prasad and a constable were injured when armed rebels lobbed a bomb at their vehicle near Dadi-Srirampur village in Giridh district of Jharkhand. They were on their way to the polling station, situated, about 200 km from Ranchi.
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Security forces continued their combing operations to keep the insurgents at bay as they foiled their attempt to disrupt polling in Bansdera in East Singhbhum, 165 km from the Jharkhand capital, after a fierce hour-long gun-battle.
Today’s polling has sealed the fate of many top leaders of various political parties including Rahul Gandhi, Congress general secretary (Amethi), Sharad Pawar, Nationalist Congress party (Madha), Kamal Nath, Congress (Chindwara) Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Ramvilas Paswan, President, Lok Jan Shakti Party (Hajipur), Sushma Swaraj, BJP, (Vidisha) Anant Kumar, BJP.