Early voters in the sixth phase of Lok Sabha polls included a number of heavyweight candidates and political leaders with the likes of Sheila Dikshit, Gautam Gambhir, and Virat Kohli exercising their franchise.
With votes being cast for all the seven seats in Delhi and 52 parliamentary constituencies across 6 states, politicians urged voters to turn out in large numbers.
Newly-minted BJP leader Gautam Gambhir cast his vote at a polling booth in Delhi’s Old Rajinder Nagar area. The former cricketer is fielded against AAP’s Atishi and Congress’s Arvinder Singh Lovely from East Delhi.
.@BJP4India candidate from #EastDelhi @GautamGambhir casts his vote at a polling booth in Old Rajinder Nagar. He is up against AAP’s Atishi and Congress’s Arvinder Singh Lovely #Phase6#LokSabhaEelctions2019 #IndiaDecides2019 pic.twitter.com/rQqzVyMyoF
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Congress candidate from North East Delhi Sheila Dikshit also cast her vote.
Delhi: Former Delhi CM and Congress’s candidate from North-East Delhi, @SheilaDikshit after casting her vote at a polling booth in Nizamuddin (East). #Phase6 #LokSabhaElections2019 pic.twitter.com/ibhSZFAPri
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Indian cricket team’s captain Virat Kohli queued up at a booth set up in Gurugram’s Pinecrest School. Dressed in a pastel t-shirt, the youth icon made an important appeal, “I would request all to cast their vote, all should come to their respective polling booths and must exercise their right to vote.”
#Haryana: Team India Captain @imVkohli after casting his vote at a polling booth in Pinecrest School in #Gurugram#Phase6#LokSabhaEelctions2019 #IndiaDecides2019 pic.twitter.com/oKplKKAfDO
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Congress President @RahulGandhi after casting his vote: The election was fought on key issues including demonetization, farmer problems, Gabbar Singh Tax and corruption in #Rafale. Narendra Modi used hatred in the campaign and we used love and I am confident love will win pic.twitter.com/BGoCSAUYsm
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#Delhi: President Ramnath Kovind casts his vote at a polling booth in Rashtrapati Bhawan @rashtrapatibhvn#LokSabhaElections2019 pic.twitter.com/1JPAPG4dwk
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AAP Candidate from East Delhi, @AtishiAAP after casting her vote at a polling booth in Kamla Nehru Govt Sarvodaya Vidyalaya in Jangpura. She is up against BJP's Gautam Gambhir and Congress's Arvinder Singh Lovely pic.twitter.com/PWaBGTSmEq
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Delhi Chief Minister @ArvindKejriwal casts his vote at a polling booth in Civil Lines. #LokSabhaElections2019 #Phase6 #IndiaDecides2019 https://t.co/bnV9XVkdM9 pic.twitter.com/vPYMlHdkWh
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Polling is being held on eight seats in Bihar, all ten seats in Haryana, eight in Madhya Pradesh, 14 in Uttar Pradesh , eight in West Bengal and four in Jharkhand.
Re-polling is being conducted at booth number 116 in West Bengal’s Barrackpore parliamentary constituency and station number 110 in Arambag Lok Sabha seat, along with one polling station each in Puducherry and Tripura.
The seventh and last phase of national elections will take place on 19 and counting of votes will take place on May 23.
(With ANI inputs)