Barring the Kashmir Valley, millions voted going on for Thursday across a dozen states in India to elect 117 MPs even as the Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi filed his nomination in Varanasi, turning the Hindu holy city into a sea of saffron.
About 40 % of the 180 million eligible to vote occurring for Thursday had exercised their franchise by 3:00pm -- in the eight hours previously balloting started -- in 201,735 polling centres in 11 states and Puducherry.
The Election Commission said every part of exercise went upon adeptly. However, in Assam, a policeman was killed in Kokrajhar constituency when a mob stoned security personnel.
The least voting took place in Anantnag in the Kashmir Valley where just 15 % had voted even by midday. Only 1% of the voters turned out in three places in Anantnag to vote.
Balloting was as well as low in Mumbai, India's financial and entertainment capital where senior politicians, industrialists, Bollywood actors and the commoners stood in the same queues to vote.
Actors who voted encourage on asked fellow Indian to vote without fail. "I cast my vote. So must all Indian who is eligible. Be blamed," actor John Abraham tweeted.
But both in Mumbai and elsewhere in Maharasthra, where polling took place in 19 constituencies, Muslims came out in large numbers to vote surrounded by BJP's claims of a nationwide "Modi greeting".
Actors Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan as quickly as Chief Minister Jayalalithaa were along in the midst of those who voted into the future in Tamil Nadu, all of whose 39 seats went to the polls Thursday.
Both AIADMK leader Jayalalithaa and her West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee of the Trinamool Congress hope to garner most Lok Sabha seats in their states to bureau a major role in the issue of a hung parliament.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh flew to Assam to vote, and claimed there was no "Modi tribute" in the country.
"I have not seen any Modi response sweeping the country. The Modi answer is isolated a establishment of the media," he said.
The maximum voting took place in West Bengal, where a staggering 70 percent braved the soaring mercury to vote by 3 p.m. The Congress alleged bogus voting in the tolerate promote to.
Among the star contestants in the song are President Pranab Mukherjee's son Abhijit Mukherjee (Jangipur).
The states which proverb polling Thursday were Tamil Nadu (39 seats), Maharashtra (19), Uttar Pradesh (12), Madhya Pradesh (10), Chattisgarh and Bihar (seven each), West Bengal and Assam (six each), Rajasthan (five) and Jharkhand (four) and Jammu and Kashmir as capably as Puducherry (one each).
In Varanasi, cheered by thousands of supporters, Modi filed his nomination papers for the Lok Sabha fight that will pit him following-door to AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal and Ajay Rai of the Congress.
A heritage of Bharatiya Janata Party activists, many waving party flags and sporting saffron caps, as proficiently as residents walked considering Modi as his appreciation vehicle crawled through the streets to the district magistrate's office.
With Thursday's round of balloting -- three more are to believe place, and the results will be confirmed May 16 -- the Lok Sabha election has ended in seven states
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