New Delhi: Among early voters in the seven states were cricketer Virat Kohli and BJP’s Pragya Thakur, Manohar Lal Khattar; Congress' Jyotiraditya Scindia, East Delhi Congress candidate Arvinder Singh Lovely and his AAP challenger Atishi.
In 2014, the BJP had won 45 of the 59 seats which went to polls on Sunday. The Trinamul Congress had won eight, the Congress two and the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) one each.
In a message earlier in the day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked the youth to vote in record numbers. “Yet another phase of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections is here! Urging all those whose constituencies are polling in today's sixth phase to go out and vote,” he tweeted.
In West Bengal, which saw minor skirmishes, BJP candidate from Ghatal, Bharati Ghosh, alleged that she was attacked by Trinamul supporters.
The former IPS officer alleged she was attacked twice by local people when she tried to visit polling stations in her constituency. Ms 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, officials said.
Following this, bombs were hurled and stones were pelted towards her convoy when she was going to visit another booth at Dogachia in Keshpur after receiving complaints of rigging there.
One of her security guards was injured and a vehicle was damaged, they said.
