Tribune News Service
New Delhi, May 6
The fate of Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Congress president Rahul Gandhi, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Union Minister Smriti Irani was sealed as polling for the fifth phase of General Election concluded today. Fifty-one parliamentary constituencies across seven states recorded 63.5 per cent voter turnout.
With the completion of the fifth phase of polling, voting for 424 of the 543 parliamentary seats has concluded. Barring a few incidents of violence reported from West Bengal and Jammu and Kashmir, “voting was largely peaceful and no loss of human life was reported from anywhere”, Election Commission official Sandeep Saxena said. Election is being held on 542 seats. Polling for the Vellore Lok Sabha seat in Tamil Nadu was cancelled due to excessive use of money.
The voting percentage for key constituencies of Lucknow (Rajnath Singh), Amethi (Rahul Gandhi and Smriti Irani) and Rai Bareli (Sonia Gandhi) stood at 54.29, 53.48 and 53.6, respectively.
Fourteen Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh went to the polls in this phase, out of which the ruling BJP had won 12 last time.
Besides UP, 12 seats in Rajasthan (63.72%), seven each in West Bengal (74.42%) and Madhya Pradesh (65.35%), five in Bihar (57.76%) and four in Jharkhand (64.63%) went to the polls today. In J&K, voting was held for Ladakh and Anantnag constituencies.
In West Bengal, BJP candidate from Barrackpore alleged that he was attacked by TMC workers. EC officials said the commission kept a close watch on the developments in West Bengal and that the future course of action would be finalised only after receiving reports from the local administration.
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