Chief Electoral Officer, B S Jaglan said, "This is for the first time a total of seven members of the Shompen tribe exercised their voting rights. Earlier, we have given them training about EVMs and VVPATs through a trainer. It's good to see that they came out of the jungle and voted for the first time." 

Cardiac arrest claims lives of two voters in Tamil Nadu.

Officials said tears welled up in the eyes of 92-year-old Sivalingam after casting his vote.

MK Stalin, Actor Rajnikanth, Congress leader P Chidambaram were among the first to cast their ballot on April 19.

The fate of 950 candidates will be decided by about 6.23 crore voters who are set to exercise their franchise in nearly 68,000 polling stations.

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