Lok Sabha election phase 6: 51.99% estimated voter turnout till 5 pm

Mangalore Today News Network

New Delhi, May 12, 2019: The fate of several prominent politicians, including Union Minister Harsh Vardhan, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia, will be decided as 59 constituencies across six states and the national capital vote in the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha polls today.

The biggest test would be for the BJP, which had won 45 of these seats in the 2014 elections. Voting is being held in 14 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 10 in Haryana, seven in Delhi, four in Jharkhand and eight each in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal. Ex-police officer Bharati Ghosh, the BJP candidate in Bengal’s Ghatal, was pushed to the ground by a group of people at a polling station.

Stones pelted at BJP candidate Bharti Ghosh at a polling station in Dogachia in Ghatal constituency by locals. Ghosh’s private security guards resorted to lathicharge to disperse the stone pelters. Locals claim that Ghosh came to the polling station to disrupt the polling process. The stone pelters vandalised Ghosh’s car. Later EC orders police to register FIR against Bharati Ghosh, BJP candidate from Ghatal, for entering the polling station with her security guards.

Former President Pranab Mukherjee casts his vote at a polling booth in NP Primary School, K Kamraj Lane in Delhi.

50.74% voter turnout recorded till 4 pm. Here’s the state-wise report:
Bihar - 44.40%
Haryana - 51.80%
Madhya Pradesh - 52.62%
Uttar Pradesh - 43.26%
West Bengal - 70.51%
Jharkhand - 58.08%
Delhi - 45.22%