Voters display their voter identity cards while stand in a queue to cast their votes for the fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections 2019 at a polling station in Hajipur on Monday.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni casts his vote at a polling booth in Jawahar Vidya Mandir in Ranchi, Jharkhand.
Total voter turnout till 2pm: 40.75%
Bihar – 32.27%
Jammu and Kashmir – 11.35%
Madhya Pradesh – 43.85%
Rajasthan – 42.77%
Uttar Pradesh – 35.15%
West Bengal – 50.78%
Jharkhand – 45.98%
Narsinghpur, Madhya Pradesh: Actor Ashutosh Rana after casting his vote at polling booth number 105 in Gadarwara.
Smriti Irani: I tweeted an alert to administration and EC(alleging booth capturing in Amethi), hope they take action. People of the country have to decide whether this kind of politics of Rahul Gandhi should be punished or not.
Polls in Uttar Pradesh
Nearly 23 per cent turnout was recorded Monday in the first four hours of polling in 14 Lok Sabha seats of UP where Union ministers Rajnath Singh and Smriti Irani, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Congress President Rahul Gandhi are in the fray.
Among early voters in the state capital included Home Minister Singh, BSP supremo Mayawati, Deputy CM Dinesh Sharma, BSP General Secretary Satish Chandra Mishra, DGP OP Singh and Principal Secretary (Home) Arvind Kumar.
Election officials here said polling was going on smoothly, barring some complaints of EVM malfunctioning, which were attended to immediately.
Union minister and the BJP’s Amethi candidate Smriti Irani alleged that Congress president Rahul Gandhi was “ensuring booth capturing” in the constituency.
Polling in Madhya Pradesh
An average 29.76 per cent polling was recorded till noon in seven Lok Sabha seats of Madhya Pradesh on Monday, an election official said.
Polling was underway since 7 am in the seven constituencies – Tikamgarh, Damoh, Khajuraho, Satna, Rewa, Hoshangabad and Betul.
Long queues of voters were seen at some polling booths, the official said.
Voting figures till noon were as follows: Tikamgarh 28.81 per cent, Damoh- 28.23 per cent, Khajuraho- 29.73 per cent, Satna- 28.25 per cent, Rewa- 28.13 per cent, Hoshangabad- 31.14 per cent and Betul- 33.14 per cent.
All these seats are currently held by the BJP.
