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tried to visit polling stations in
her constituency. Ghosh suffered
minor injuries when a group
of women allegedly attacked
her when she tried to take a BJP
agent inside a polling booth at
Keshpur area, an official told PTI.
Re-polling was conducted at
booth number 116 in West Ben-
gal’s Barrackpore parliamentary
constituency and booth number
110 in Arambag Lok Sabha seat,
along with one polling station
each in Puducherry and Tripura.
A poll officer was allegedly beat-
en up by an MLA of the BJP in
Uttar Pradesh during the penul-
timate phase.
Maneka Gandhi and her rival
Bahujan Samaj Party candidate
Chandra Bhadra Singh were en-
gaged in an argument in Sultan-
pur, with the BJP leader warning
him that hooliganism would not
be allowed. Singh dismissed her
charge.
EVM malfunctioning
Complaints about malfunction- magistrate, state Chief Electoral Officer official said. The state recorded a voter
ing EVMs poured in from several plac- L Venkateshwar Lu said. In Bhadohi, turnout of 64.50 per cent. The votes
es in Delhi where voting is underway. BJP MLA Dinanath Bhaskar allegedly polled in the sixth phase of the Lok Sab-
Aam Aadmi Party’s Malviya Nagar MLA beat up a presiding officer in the Aurai ha election will be counted on May 23.
Somnath Bharti alleged that EVMs at assembly segment, accusing the official
booths 116, 117 and 122 were not func- of deliberately slowing the polling pro- Violence hits West Bengal
tioning. “EVM in booth 132, Hauzrani is cess. The incident took place at a prima- Over 80 per cent of the 1,33,69,749 elec-
showing 50 votes without anyone cast- ry school in Lakshmana village. torate exercised their franchise during
ing any vote in the machine n EVMs at No untoward incident was reported Phase of Lok Sabha elections in eight
booths 116,117, 122 in Malviya Nagar not from any part of Jharkhand, an election parliamentary constituencies of West
functioning,” Bharti tweeted. Bengal on May 12. “Except some inci-
President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice dents of disturbances in Keshpur, poll-
President Venkaiah Naidu, UPA chair- ing is mostly peaceful. We have sought
person Sonia Gandhi, Congress chief The Supreme Court reports from the district officials about
Rahul Gandhi, External Affairs Minister has rejected a plea the incidents,” a senior official of the
Sushma Swaraj, Congress general sec- state CEO’s office said. “In the eight
retary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Delhi seeking a direction Lok Sabha constituencies in the state,
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, former to EC to advance around 79.93 per cent of voters have
CM and Congress’s North-East Delhi cast their ballots till 5 pm.”
candidate Sheila Dikshit were among polling timing to Tamluk seat recorded the highest
the prominent people who voted in voter turnout at 82.99 per cent, fol-
Delhi in the sixth phase of the Lok Sab- 5:30am from 7am for lowed by Bishnupur (SC) at 81.90 per
ha election. seventh phase of the cent, Jhargram (ST) at 81.68 per cent,
In Uttar Pradesh’s Azamgarh Lok
Sabha constituency, a presiding officer Lok Sabha election in Ghatal at 80.350 per cent, Kanthi at
80.06 per cent, Purulia at 78.64 per
was removed following complaints by view of searing heat cent, Medinipore at 78.17 per cent and
the Samajwadi Party (SP) workers. A Bankura at 75.68 per cent, he said.
report has been sought from the district and Ramadan The eight constituencies are spread

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