According to the data shared by the office, 1409 voters cast their ballots from the comfort of their homes across all seven parliamentary constituencies in Delhi on Friday, which was the second day of the facility being started.

Dattatreya said, "We undertook a discussion down memory lane and exchanged pleasantries. He smiled and laughed at the good memories we exchanged during our journey together in the late eighties till 2014 to make the nation a better place."

President Droupadi Murmu bestowed the Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian honour in the country, upon BJP stalwart and former deputy prime minister LK Advani at his residence on Sunday.

BJP president JP Nadda also accompanied Union Home Minster Amit Shah in his visit to Advani’s residence. Shah asserted that the work done by Advani is a source of inspiration for all of us.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's announcement Saturday of the country's highest civilian honour for the 96-year-old leader has come in the year of the consecration ceremony at the Ram temple in Ayodhya.

Modi spoke to the BJP’s longest serving president, who is credited with crafting the party’s rise through the 90s, when it came to power for the first time as the head of coalition governments under Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and congratulated him.