Prominent Personalities Exercise Franchise On Phase 2 Of Lok Sabha Polling
The second phase of the gigantic Lok Sabha elections today covered Assam, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Manipur, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh and Union Territory Puducherry. 38 Lok Sabha and 18 assembly seats in Tamil Nadu are voting today. Besides Tamil Nadu, polling was held in 14 seats in Karnataka, 10 in Maharashtra, eight in western Uttar Pradesh, five each in Assam, Bihar and Odisha. Three seats each in Chhattisgarh and West Bengal, two in Jammu and Kashmir and one seat each in Manipur and Puducherry were also part of phase 2 of Lok Sabha elections. Here are the key personalities who voted today.
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National Conference's Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah cast their votes at a polling station in Munshi Bagh Area in the Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency. Omar Abdullah said, "Now that Lok Sabha polls are due to conclude, we can only hope that Centre together with EC gives people of Jammu and Kashmir an elected government which is their right."
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Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy along with wife Anitha Kumaraswamy (C) and son Nikhil Gowda (R) show their finger marked with indelible ink after casting vote for the second phase of the general elections, at a polling station, Kethiganahalli in Ramanagara district.
