Photos: 11 states vote in stage two, EVM glitches slow down initial polling
Updated On Apr 18, 2019 04:07 PM IST
Voting for 95 Lok Sabha seats is underway across 11 states and the Union Territory of Puducherry. Glitches in the electronic voting machines (EVMs) and the voter-verified paper audit trails (VVPATs) were reported during early hours of polling. Voters in Assam’s Silchar complained of the VVPAT malfunctioning. In Uttar Pradesh, EVMs glitches are reported from Agra, Mathura and Hathras.
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Polling underway at Upper Kot in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh early in the morning. Thirty-eight of 39 Lok Sabha seats of Tamil Nadu are up for the grab in Thursday’s polling. 14 seats in Karnataka, 10 in Maharashtra, eight in Uttar Pradesh, five each in Assam, Bihar and Odisha, three each in Chhattisgarh and West Bengal, two in Jammu and Kashmir and one seat each in Manipur and Puducherry. (Vipin Kumar / HT Photo)
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An elderly voter shows her finger marked with indelible ink after casting vote at Kamalpur in Kamrup district, Assam. Voters in Assam’s Silchar complained of the VVPAT malfunctioning soon after polling began. In Uttar Pradesh, EVMs glitches were reported from Agra, Mathura and Hathras. (PTI)
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Voters stand in a queue at a polling station to cast their vote in Nagaon. At 11 am, the voter turn for the second phase of Lok Sabha elections 2019 stood at 18.97% in Bihar, 30.62% in Tamil Nadu, 26.39% in Assam, and 26.2% in Chhattisgarh. (PTI)
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Voters stand outside a polling station in Amroha, Uttar Pradesh. Due to lack of development in Hathras voters in Garhi herbal village of Sadabad boycotted the election. At Birjapur polling station in Mathura people complained that they are not allowed to vote despite having Aadhar card as identity proof. (Anushree Fadnavis / REUTERS)
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Election officers sit inside an empty polling station during in Srinagar. Kashmiri separatist leaders who challenge India’s sovereignty over the disputed region have called for a boycott of the vote. People voted in large numbers in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur Lok Sabha seat but polling was muted in the Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency. (Dar Yasin / AP)
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Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) Founder-President Kamal Haasan with his daughter and actress Shruti Haasan and other voters wait in a queue to cast vote at a polling station in Chennai. In the early hours of voting, several high-profile politicians and other personalities cast their votes. Apart from Kamal Haasan and his daughter Shruti, the early voters were Tamil superstar Rajinikanth, Congress leaders P Chidambaram in Sivaganga and Sushil Kumar Shinde in Solapur. (R Senthil Kumar / PTI)
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Voting for 35 assembly constituencies is also taking place in Odisha; here seen people from Phulbani tribe cast their vote in Kandhamal. Due to EVM malfunction the voting procedure was halted at booths 261 and 263 in Bolangir Lok Sabha constituency. (Arabinda Mahapatra / HT Photo)
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105-year-old Kabaibai Ganpati Kamble reached a polling station to cast her vote in the Lok Sabha elections in Maharashtra. Seated on a wheelchair, Kabaibai was accompanied by her grown up children and other fourth-generation relatives to the polling station in Harangul New Colony in Latur. (ANI)
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