Elections 2019: Voting begins late in some booths in Delhi

New Delhi Voting that was scheduled to start at 7 am began late at some booths in the national capital on Sunday Delhi Home Minister Satyendar Jain said that voting started 50 minutes late at three polling booths Voting started at 750 am at 3 booths of Railway Jhuggi Shakurbasti he tweetedDelhi External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj after casting her vote at a polling booth in NP Senior Secondary School in Aurangzeb Lane LokSabhaElections2019 Phase6 pictwittercomOwqUzkY7Ltmdash ANI ANI May 12 2019Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal casts his vote at a polling booth in Civil Lines LokSabhaElections2019 Phase6 pictwittercomAtVTdUMItmmdash ANI ANI May 12 2019However there was no immediate response from the Chief Electoral Office Shashi Devi a 58yearold resident of Mayur Vihar I said that she and her son were made to wait for 20 minutes by officials at a polling booth My son and I came to cast our votes to avoid the heat but after reaching the polling booth at 7 am we were asked to wait for 20 minutes as officials were still in the process of starting polling Devi said Another voter Rahul Sharma had to wait to for half an hour outside the polling booth of his area to cast his vote Among the early voters in the national capital were former chief minister Sheila Dikshit Congresss New Delhi candidate Ajay Maken Union minister Harsh Vardhan BJPs East Delhi candidate Gautam Gambhir and BJP national general secretary organisation Ram LalOver 143 crore people in Delhi are eligible to vote in this election which will decide the fate of 164 candidates of which 18 are women There are 43 independent candidates While 254723 voters are in the age group of 18 and 19 there are 40532 electorate with disability who would be provided pick up and drop facilityLokSabhaElections2019 Voting begins for 59 parliamentary constituencies in the 6th phase of polling across Bihar Haryana Madhya Pradesh Uttar Pradesh West Bengal Jharkhand and Delhi pictwittercomGnAItgVqxzmdash ANI ANI May 12 2019Polling began Sunday morning for 59 Lok Sabha seats in the sixth and penultimate phase of Lok Sabha polls with Union ministers Radha Mohan Singh Harsh Vardhan and Maneka Gandhi SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and Congress leaders Digvijay Singh and Jyotiraditya Scindia among several prominent faces in the fray Elections are being held in 14 seats in Uttar Pradesh 10 seats in Haryana eights constituencies each in Bihar Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal seven seats in Delhi and four in JharkhandDelhi Congress President Rahul Gandhi arrives to cast his vote at a polling booth in NP Senior Secondary School in Aurangzeb Lane pictwittercomKH6ngS7GqFmdash ANI ANI May 12 2019Over 1017 crore voters are eligible to exercise their franchise to decide the fate of 979 candidates The Election Commission has set up over 113 lakh polling stations for smooth conduct of the polls The elections in this phase are seen as a big test for the BJP which had won 45 of these seats in 2014 with the Trinamool Congress bagging 8 the Congress two and the Samajwadi Party and the LJP one seat each among others Prominent candidates in the fray in Delhi include veteran Congress leader Sheila Dikshit Olympian boxer Vijender Singh Union minister Harsh Vardhan Atishi from AAP and her BJP rival cricketerturnedpolitician Gautam Gambhir The Bhopal seat in Madhya Pradesh is witnessing an interesting contest between senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh and BJP nominee Pragya Singh ThakurAAP Candidate from East Delhi Atishi after casting her vote at a polling booth in Kamla Nehru Govt Sarvodaya Vidyalaya in Jangpura She is up against BJPs Gautam Gambhir and Congresss Arvinder Singh Lovely pictwittercomeMJD9NmCqHmdash ANI ANI May 12 2019Guna will seal the fate of Congress general secretary Scindia Union minister and BJP nominee Narendra Singh Tomar is in the fray from MorenaIn Uttar Pradesh the BJP is up against the SPBSPRLD coalition and the Congress The BJP had won 13 of the 14 constituencies in 2014 the only exception being Azamgarh won then by SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav However the BJP had to face defeat in the bypolls in Phulpur and Gorakhpur constituencies last year While the antiBJP alliance would like to retain its grip over both the seats the saffron party is looking to wrest them from the opposition Their importance can be gauged from the fact that Gorakhpur was represented by Yogi Adityanath in Lok Sabha from 1998 to 2017 before he became the chief minister of Uttar PradeshDelhi BJP Chief amp partys candidate from NorthEast Delhi Manoj Tiwari casts his vote at polling booth number 60 in Yamuna Vihar He is up against Congresss Sheila Dikshit and AAPs Dilip Pandey LokSabhaElections2019 Phase6 pictwittercom4NWJ8ZO24emdash ANI ANI May 12 2019Similarly Phulpur was won for the first time by the BJP in 2014 when Keshav Prasad Maurya emerged victorious from the seat once represented by Jawaharlal Nehru Indias first prime minister Maurya vacated the seat after he became the deputy chief minister of the state in 2017 In Azamgarh this time Akhilesh is trying to retain his fathers seat against Bhojpuri film star Dinesh Lal Yadav Nirahua of the BJP Sultanpur too is seeing an interesting contest as the BJP has fielded Union minister Maneka Gandhi for the seat won by her son Varun in 2014 The ruling Trinamool Congress the BJP the Congress and the Left Front constituents the CPIM the CPI and the AIFB are the main contenders in West Bengal In this phase polling is being held in Jangal Mahal the forested region of Bankura West Midnapore Jhargram and Purulia districts which used to be a Maoist hotbed during the erstwhile Left Front government Union ministers Rao Inderjit Singh and Krishan Pal Gurjar are among the 223 candidates in fray in HaryanaCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updatesEdited by midday online desk with inputs from Agencies