Photos: Mumbai, Hindi heartland states vote in Lok Sabha election stage 4

Seventy-two seats across nine states will go to polls in the fourth phase of 2019 general elections on Monday. The last 17 of Maharashtra’s 48 Lok Sabha seats will vote on Monday. With this phase, polling ends in Maharashtra and Odisha, while the process starts in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand. Twenty-six seats in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal are also voting in this phase. These three states have seats going to polls in each of the seven phases in the 2019 elections.

Updated on: Apr 29, 2019 4:56 PM IST

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A103 year-old voter, Chembur’s oldest, shows her inked finger after voting in the Mumbai South Central constituency in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Voting began at 7 am on Monday for 72 seats across nine states in the fourth phase of 2019 Lok Sabha elections with PM Modi’s appeal for ‘record voting’ and reports of EVM glitches and clashes from several areas. (Vijayanand Gupta / HT Photo)

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A voter casting their vote at an all-women operated “Sakhi polling booth” at Jai Hind College in Churchgate in Mumbai. In Mumbai, celebrities and industrialists were seen rubbing shoulders with commoners while queuing up to vote for Mumbai’s six urban seats. Mumbai seats, known for low turnout in Lok Sabah polls, recorded 53% voting in 2014, which was an improvement from 41% of 2009. (Anshuman Poyrekar / HT Photo)

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Voters wait in queues at a polling station at Sirohi district in Rajasthan. The state goes to polls for 1st time in the ongoing 7-phase general elections. The high-profile seats of Barmer, Nagaur, Jodhpur and Rajsamand will be among the parliamentary constituencies that will vote in the fourth phase of the 17th general election. (Amit Dave / REUTERS)

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Voters stand in a queue at Lohardaga Constituency in Jharkhand. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has high stakes in this phase. Of the 72 seats voting today, it won 45 in 2014. Its allies won another 11 seats. The Congress’s tally was just two. In 2009, the BJP-Congress breakup in these seats was 9-29. (Rajesh Kumar / AFP)

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Voters travel to a polling station in a cycle cart in Bardhaman east constituency, West Bengal. Police baton charged agitators at a polling station in Bardhaman’s Jemua in Durgapur Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal. A section of the voters in the polling booth were agitating since morning saying therewill be no polling if sufficient central forces were not deployed. (Bikas Das / AP)

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A group comprised of elderly voters at Colaba in Mumbai. All major markets, including BSE, National Stock Exchange, forex and money markets are closed Monday due to elections in Mumbai. The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won all of Maharashtra’s seats polling today, in 2014, an increase of 11 seats from its 2009 tally. (Anshuman Poyrekar / HT Photo)

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Union minister Babul Supriyo’s car was vandalised outside a polling station in West Bengal’s Asansol. Supriyo is the BJP candidate from Asansol. A clash had broken between TMC workers and security personnel at polling booth number 199 in Asansol. A TMC polling agent said, “no BJP polling agent was present at the booth.” (PTI)

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Voters after casting their votes, in Ajmer district. Over 29% voting was recorded in the first four hours of polling in 13 Lok Sabha constituencies in Rajasthan which began at 7 am on Monday. The Barmar parliamentary constituency recorded the maximum voter turnout of 33.53%, while the overall voting percentage at 11 am was 29.40 per cent, according to the office of the chief electoral officer. (PTI)

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Voters stand in a queue to cast their vote at a polling station, in Begusarai district, Bihar. In first five hours of voting, 23% polling was recorded till 12 noon on Monday for elections to 72 seats across nine states in the fourth phase of 2019 Lok Sabha elections amid PM Modi’s appeal for ‘record voting’ and reports of EVM glitches and clashes from several areas. (PTI)

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Kashmiri voters arriving to vote are reflected on a mirror outside a polling station at Bumthan, south of Srinagar. Unlike the previous phase, when Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag recorded 0% polling in the first two hours, on Monday voters turned up early at several booths. Monday is the second round of voting in Anantnag, which is scheduled go to polls in three phases. (Mukhtar Khan / AP)