The second phase of the Lok Sabha election saw voting taking place for 95 constituencies across 11 states and one Union territory. According to the Election Commission’s Voter Turnout app, 68.2 per cent of the eligible voters exercised their franchise.
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The Lok Sabha election began with voting 91 constituencies, spread across 18 states and 2 Union territories, going to the poll in the first phase. Sporadic violence, malfunctioning of EVMs and missing names from voters’ list were reported from various parts of India.
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The opposition complained to the EC against PM Narendra Modi for politicizing the sacrifices of armed forces when he urged first-time voters to dedicate their vote to the CRPF jawans killed in the Pulwama terror attack and the airmen who carried out the bombing in Pakistan’s Balakot.
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Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose, former Supreme Court judge, was elected as the first anti-corruption ombudsman of India, on Sunday. Ghose has been chosen as country’s first Lokpal nearly five years after the Lokpal Act.
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The Left Front has, for the first time, opted for a seat-sharing deal with the Congress for the Lok Sabha election. Earlier, it had entered into a seat-sharing deal with the party for the state assembly polls, which had failed to evoke mass support.
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The Supreme Court said it could not deprive lakhs of families, dependent on manufacturing firecrackers, of their livelihood. It observed that the court “can’t let people go hungry” and “generate unemployment”.
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The Samajwadi Party has named six candidates in its first list for the Lok Sabha election, which includes the party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav and party leader Akhilesh Yadav’s cousins Dharmendra Yadav and Akshay Yadav.
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Hours after the Indian Air Force carried out air strikes against terror camps in Balakot and elsewhere inside Pakistan, the country initiated unprovoked ceasefire violation by shelling with heavy-calibre weapons at 12 to 15 places along the line of control.
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Politicizing the accident where 340 vehicles were gutted in a fire at the Aero India 2019 venue at Bengaluru’s Yelahanka airbase, the Bhartiya Janata Party has blamed the state’s Janata Dal (Secular)-Congress coalition government.
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The Supreme Court has ordered the eviction of more than 10 lakh families from tribal communities and other forest dwellers from forests across 16 states, after their claims on forestlands were rejected. The case was pending for a few years.
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