JP Nadda, the National President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), convened a late-night meeting with party leaders at his residence on Monday to assess the voter turnout in the initial phase of the Lok Sabha elections.

These jawans were returning to their home district of Rajgarh in the state after performing their election duty when the accident occurred near Baretha Ghat on the Bhopal-Betul highway.

Twenty-seven members of a joint family in Nagpur, Maharashtra, put aside their grief and went to cast votes on Friday despite losing an elderly relative a day ago.

An elderly voter in Uttarakhand's Haridwar threw an electronic voting machine (EVM) on the ground, demanding voting take place through ballot paper.

A large number of women thronged the pink booths set up at the Government Girls' Higher Secondary School in Doda to exercise their franchise.

92 Assembly seats and 3 Lok Sabha seats from Arunachal & Sikkim go to polls on Friday.

Women, who outnumber male voters anyway in all five seats, were seen queuing up at polling stations from 5 am. Most of them said they wanted to cast their vote early so that they could return home and continue with their daily chores

In eight parliamentary constituencies of western Uttar Pradesh where voting is currently underway, an average voter turnout of 25.20 per cent was recorded in the first four hours of polling on Friday in the first phase of Lok Sabha elections.

The Phase 1 of the Lok Sabha polls nears completion. Votes were cast in 102 Constituences across 21 states

As Lok Sabha elections kicked off today, with voting beginning for the first phase, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi urged voters to strengthen democracy and open 'Mohabbat ki Dukaan' in every corner of the country by defeating hatred.

On Friday, voting started in the first phase of Lok Sabha elections in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur parliamentary constituency. Over 16.23 lakh electorates are eligible to exercise their franchise.

Phase 1 of the Lok Sabha polls started across the country for 102 constituencies.