Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 01:23pm on 01 Jun 2024,Saturday Politics
The final phase of the Lok Sabha elections saw a 58.3% voter turnout till 5 pm across 57 seats. Voting occurred in nine West Bengal seats, marked by violence, including an incident in South 24 Parganas where an Electronic Voting Machine was thrown into a pond. All 13 seats in Punjab and key constituencies like Varanasi, represented by PM Narendra Modi, were also contested. Prominent candidates included BJP's Anurag Thakur and TMC's Abhishek Banerjee. The Congress reversed its exit poll boycott. Vote counting is scheduled for June 4, with results also expected for state polls in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh.
