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The Kendrapara constituency is known to be an anti-Congress bastion and has seen some epic battles and elected stalwarts Biju Patnaik, Rabi Ray and Surendra Nath Dwivedy in the past.

Sam Pitroda said vice chancellors of universities should be given all the freedom but they don't have it.

Reports of EVM malfunctioning started surfacing since morning from almost all the states. While the snags delayed the voting, incidents of violence and poll boycotts impacted the voting pace as well as the ultimate turnout.

Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Saturday said his father HD Deve Gowda's 10-month tenure as the Prime Minister was much better than that of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Santosh Kumar Kushwaha was elected JD(U) MP in 2014 and he is pitted against Congress’ Uday Singh. Singh switched to Congress from BJP as this seat had been allocated to JD(U).

The highest turnout was recorded in Ganderbal at 16.75%, while Srinagar remained at the lowest with 7.69%.

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court had directed the Election Commission to watch the full biopic on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and take an informed decision on banning its release.

The policeman from the AR camp in Kollam was on duty arranging security to the Prime Minister whose gun was accidentally fired on Thursday evening.

The Congress chief said his party's Nyay scheme, which has promised a minimum income to the country's poorest, will help conduct 'surgical strikes' on poverty.

Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee said that neither UPA, nor NDA will form the next government.

Although caste arithmetic often plays a crucial role in Bihar polls, this time it is the polling patterns from three previous Lok Sabha elections and last state assembly elections that will play an important role.

As a part of the free service, Ola has assigned 270 cabs to the election commission which will be made available to ferry PWD voters to polling booths.

The Thoothukkudi constituency will see a tough battle between two high-profile women candidates — M Kanimozhi of the DMK and BJP state president Tamilisai Soundararajan.

Senior Deputy Election Commissioner said that the overall turnout in second phase was 66.63% Officials said the figures are likely to go up as there are many people in queues even after the scheduled timing for voting elapsed.

The commission has deputed Deputy Election Commissioner Dharmendra Sharma to visit Sambalpur to conduct a detailed inquiry and furnish a report in two days.

Former state sports minister Madan Mitra, with whom Noor was claimed to have campaigned for Roy in an open keep, trashed BJP's allegation and said Noor had met him only to hand over a document.