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Commission, the second phase Assembly constituencies of Polling in Chhattisgarh turnout at 67.84 per cent was Odisha and in 18 Assembly witnessed violence with an 1.28 per cent lower than 69.12 seats in Tamil Nadu. ITBP jawan suffering minor !"#" ( per cent registered in 2014. A total of 1,600 candidates injuries after Naxals triggered % ! Sporadic violence was report- were in the electoral battle for an IED blast in Rajnandgaon ) !! % ed from West Bengal, 95 seats which would be cru- district. % %( Chhattisgarh and Manipur cial for the BJP as for the Long queues were seen at *+ %& even as EVM glitches were Opposition to keep the tempo polling booths in Tamil Nadu, &, % reported from some places. of the fight for the New Delhi with Chief Minister K %%! The second phase of Lok which has still 357 Lok Sabha Palaniswami and DMK chief & Sabha elections was held for 95 seats to go to poll before the MK Stalin among the early vot- # seats across 11 States and final verdict is announced on ers. Union Territory of Puducherry. May 23. Sporadic incidents of vio- With this, the poll process has The AIADMK holds the lence were reported in some %% been completed in 14 States maximum of 36 seats of the 95 areas of Bengal. A reporter and # and Union Territories. In all, seats which witnessed polling a camera person of a local news polling has been completed in in 2nd phase, followed by the channel were allegedly man- $ 186 Lok Sabha constituencies. BJP with 27 seats. The handled when they went to % Tamil Nadu went to polls Congress had won 12 of these cover polling at Kataphulbari in &'-.#/0 for 38 of 39 constituencies seats in 2014, the Shiv Sena and the Raiganj constituency, they &1! with DMK’s A Raja and the BJD 4 each, the JD(S) and said. 2% 2% Kanimozhi being the promi- the RJD two each and the Voters in Uttar Dinajpur nent candidates in the fray. AIUDF, the NCP, the JD(U), district’s Chopra under the BJP’s Hema Malini and the PDP, the AINRC, the PMK, Raiganj constituency report- ! # Congress leader Raj Babbar the CPM and the TMC one edly put up a road blockade, & %1 among others were among the seat each. complaining about the absence & %! K notables who contested on the Electorally key State of of Central forces at the polling 4 56! eight seats that went to polls in Uttar Pradesh with 80 LS seats stations, the sources said. %(K Uttar Pradesh. Former Prime has completed polling in 16 Police fired in the air and !% # Minister and JD(S) patriarch Radhakrishnan were in the stone pelters and EVM glitch- istered 62.3 per cent polling, Bengal 76 per cent. seats of western UP. lobbed tear gas shells to control HD Deve Gowda from fray in the second of the seven- es at some places. CPI(M) can- Assam 78.27 per cent, Bihar The first phase of polling Polling was conducted in a mob, after stones were pelt- ( % Karnataka and National phased Lok Sabha poll which didate from Raiganj Md Salim 62.52 per cent, Chhattisgarh 71 on April 11 included 91 con- Srinagar Parliamentary con- ed at them and bombs were Conference chief Farooq would conclude on May 19. claimed that his car was per cent , Karnataka 61.80 per stituencies, registering 69.43 stituency of Jammu & Kashmir hurled by unknown persons in **+,7% Abdullah in Jammu & Kashmir Voting picked up in the attacked by unknown persons cent, Maharashrra 62 per cent, per cent of polling, three per to decide the fate of 10 candi- Chopra, a senior EC official in % too tested the ballot power. second phase by afternoon when he went to a polling Manipur 74.69 per cent, cent more than recorded in dates, including NC president the district said. At least three Union Ministers Jitendra which was marred by an IED booth at Islampur in Uttar Odisha 64 per cent, 2014 general elections. Farooq Abdullah who is seek- persons were detained by & Singh, Jual Oram, Sadananda blast by Naxals in Chhattisgarh, Dinajpur in West Bengal. Puducherry 78 per cent, Tamil Besides Tamil Nadu, voting ing a re-election. police in this connection, he 6! 6 Gowda and Pon police firing in West Bengal on According to EC, UP reg- Nadu 72 per cent and West took place in 14 seats in Security personnel have said. ! # !"" #$% & $ O P %&& - half years which can be achieved due to public- '()""&* R :(859 includes better police cooperation.” -8:"2 road connectivity Before Peshrar visit, CM NEW DELHI: Amid continu- in Peshrar, also addressed a public meet- ,)",85945 ing “flip-flop” over the pre-poll hief Minister Raghubar installing solar ing at Kashira High School alliance for the Lok Sabha elec- CDas on Thursday asserted lights at rural hin- ground in Bishunpur block of hares of Jet Airways contin- tions, the Congress on Thursday that extremists’ influence has terland and provi- the Lohardaga district. Das, Sued to fall for the second day said there is almost no prospects reduced considerably in sion of portable making a scathing attack on in a row, plummeting over 32 of any tie-up with the Aam Jharkhand adding that only drinking water Congress and JMM for pro- per cent on Thursday, a day Aadmi Party (AAP). some areas of the State are facilities for vil- moting dynastic politics, said, after the ailing airline shuttered However, sources said the affected by the LWE menace. lagers. The CM “People like Congress chief its operations temporarily. The party may wait for any fresh Das, who was camping in &'! %'() ) * also talked about Rahul Gandhi and JMM exec- scrip tanked 32.23 per cent to move by the AAP till the Lohardaga district for past two + how tourism utive president Hemant Soren close at 163.90 on the BSE. announcement of the list of its days on Thursday reached Left () , avenues in the don’t know what is poverty as Intra-day, it plunged 34.62 per Lok Sabha candidates in Wing Extremists (LWE) affect- areas especially in they are born with golden cent to 158.10 that is 52-week Delhi.As the alliance talks head- ed Peshrar block of district. extremist-free adding that fol- Lavapani waterfall of Peshrar spoon.” The CM said, “Those low. On the National Stock ed nowhere, AAP’s candidate The Chief Minister during lowing the decline in extrem- region has gone up after State who are corrupt and involved Exchange, shares sank 31 per from West Delhi Balbir Singh his hour-long stay in the area, ism the Government has been Government carried out infra- in scams such as sand mining, cent to close at 165.75 apiece. Jakhar filed his nomination interacted with local people able to provide basic facilities structure development in the coal and fodder scam are With lenders deciding not papers. “They (AAP) had and asserted that the State in the remote areas. He point- area. against Modi government as to extend any emergency funds, agreed for an alliance with us in Government is committed for ed out the entire country is Peshrar region of not a single scam has occurred.” Jet Airways on Wednesday ! " Delhi alone on Wednesday development of State apart admitting that Jharkhand is Lohardaga was one the most The CM also attacked JMM announced temporary suspen- night. from wiping out LWE menace. growing at a very fast pace. severely LWE affected areas in chief Shibu Soren and his fam- sion of operations. In a state- after halting operations agency CBI. On Thursday morning, Das was in Lohardaga for cam- State BJP spokesperson, State. On Wednesday, the secu- ily for illegally grabbing tribal ment early on Thursday, Jet temporarily in October “The situation is very bad they raised the full Statehood paigning of BJP candidate and Pratul Shahdeo, Lohardaga dis- rity forces ahead of CM visit land in State. Airways’ lenders said they were 2012. for employees. As many as issue. I told them we are ready, minister of state for tribal trict BJP president Om Prakash seized large number of explo- Das said, “The Opposition’s reasonably hopeful of a suc- Alleging some “motives” 16,000 permanent employees full Statehood was in our man- affairs, Sudarshan Bhagat. and other senior leaders sives and inflammable objects tribal love is a myth as most of cessful bidding process for behind the series of develop- don’t have work today. I told ifesto for 2015(Assembly) elec- Bhagat, the two times accompanied the Chief from Husru village during the the times they have made out- stake sale. ments at the carrier, which the management that efforts tion. But, later I received Sanjay Lohardaga BJP MP is pitted Minister.

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