Polling has been completed in 14 states and union territories in the first two phases of the Lok Sabha elections, the Election Commission (EC) said on Friday. In the second phase, voters from 46 villages in Naxal-affected Bastar and Kanker parliamentary constituencies in Chhattisgarh cast their votes in a polling booth set up in their village for the first time in a Lok Sabha election.
With the second phase voting coming to an end, polling in the seven-phase general elections has been completed in 189 of total 543 Lok Sabha seats so far. Among those whose fate was sealed on Friday are Congress’s Rahul Gandhi, Shashi Tharoor, Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar, actor-turned-politician Arun Govil, and former Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy.
Among those who are eyeing a hat-trick in their respective seats are Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla, Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, and actor-turned politician Hema Malini.
