Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Phase 2 Polling : Live Updates

2nd Phase of polling for the Lok Sabha Elections 2024 began at 7 AM today. Polling is taking place across 89 constituencies of Lok Sabha today. These 89 constituencies are distributed across 13 states of the country.

Five Constituencies of Assam, one of Manipur and one of Tripura are also among these 88 constituencies. People were seen waiting for their chance to cast their votes since before 7 AM at several of the polling stations.

The Bru Community resides in the state of Tripura in Northeast India and they have come out in large numbers to take part in the voting process of the ongoing Lok Sabha Elections. The other constituency of the state, West Tripura, saw a massive 82 percent turnout of voters in the Phase 1 of polling.

Poling for the 2 East Tripura constituency is underway today as a part of the 2nd phase of voting. This seat is reserved for members of the Scheduled Tribes communities.

Kriti Singh Debbarma is the Bharatiya Janata Party Candidate for this constituency. She faces Rajendra Reang of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in the East Tripura.

Palakkad district authorities of Kerala has taken an important initiative to prevent bogus voting in the district. They have made arrangements for full-time web casting of polling stations in the district. Live feeds from the polling stations can be viewed by the District Collector as well as the Chief Election Officer.

A 30-member special team has been deputed with the responsibility of ensuring the smooth conduct of this web casting operation. Apart from this, the presiding officers of all polling stations have been ordered to take strict action to prevent double voting by any of the voters after it was found that names of some voters appeared more than once.

Voting is underway in the Outer Manipur Constituency of Manipur. This seat is reserved for candidates from Scheduled Tribes. According to records, the Outer Manipur Lok Sabha Constituency has a total of 4,84,949 voters, including 2,39,140 men, 2,45,807 women and two transgenders.

As per the reports published at 11 AM, this constituency had seen a 33.22 percent voter turnout. The second constituency of the state, Inner Manipur saw elections in the first phase on polling. It saw a the turnout of 72 percent voters amidst isolated incidents of disruption of the polling process.

Polling is underway in for the 2nd phase of Lok Sabha Elections. 5 constituencies of Assam and one each from Manipur and Tripura are seeing elections today.

Tripura East constituency recorded 36.42% voter turnout at 11 AM on Friday. Outer Manipur saw 33.22% of its voters casting their votes at the same time.

In the state of Assam, Darrang- Udalguri constituency recorded 28.81%, Diphu (ST) recorded 30.82%, Karimganj recorded 29.99%, Nagaon 25.29%, and Silchar recorded 23.20% voter turnout at 11 AM. Voting continues till 5 PM today.

The Darrang- Udalguri constituency recorded 49.72% voter turnout at 1 PM. Diphu (ST) constituency recorded 46.40%, Karimganj constituency recorded 49.14%, Nagaon constituency 44.48% and Silchar constituency recorded 40.23% brining the total turnout percentage of the 5 constituencies of Assam to 46.31%.

At the same time, the Outer Manipur Constituency of Manipur saw 54.26% voter turnout and Tripura East recorded 54.47% turnout.

The 2nd Phase of Polling for the Lok Sabha Elections 2024 is now underway in 89 constituencies of the country. Among them are 7 constituencies from Northeast India including 5 from Assam and one each from Manipur and Tripura.

Crores of Indians living in a variety of landscapes are taking part in the voting process for the Lok Sabha Elections 2024. Voters from far flung areas often arrive at their designated polling stations using a variety of transportation modes.

Several voters coming to the 44/68 Raima Valley AS which is a remote area of Dhalai district of Tripura arrived at their voting stations to cast their voted by using boats. The Chief Election Officer of Tripura shared multiple images of citizens coming by boat to vote in the Tripura East constituency.

Voters at Rishi Para in Tripura's Khowai district were in for a surprise as a swarm of bees unleashed an unexpected attack, that too out of nowhere.

Chaos ensued as a sense of panic gripped among the electorate in the aftermath of this lethal attack which also affected nearby areas.

The full-scale assault led to around fifteen individuals sustaining injuries and they were then taken to Khowai District Hospital to receive medical attention.

Although no casualties or severe injuries were reported, this shocking incident raised serious concerns regarding the safety of voters during the electoral process.

The Darrang- Udalguri constituency recorded 64.43 % voter turnout at 3 PM. Diphu (ST) constituency recorded 60.74 %, Karimganj constituency recorded 60.36 %, Nagaon constituency 60.56 % and Silchar constituency recorded 53.06 %, thereby pushing the total turnout percentage of the 5 constituencies of Assam to 60.32 %

On the other hand, the Outer Manipur Constituency saw 68.48 % voter turnout while Tripura East recorded 68.92 % turnout.

The 2nd Phase of Polling for the Lok Sabha Elections 2024 is underway in 89 constituencies of the country. Among them are 7 constituencies from Northeast India including 5 from Assam and one each from Manipur and Tripura.