SC rejects all petitions seeking 100 per cent verification of EVM votes with VVPAT slips
The top court also rejected the prayers of petitioners to return to ballot paper voting.
The top court also rejected the prayers of petitioners to return to ballot paper voting.
Polling in the second phase of the Lok Sabha elections in Jammu Constituency began with enthusiasm, especially among the new voters.
Caste calculation, religious affiliation has never emerged as a tool to woo voters.
Nomination process for the fifth phase of Lok Sabha polls for 14 seats in Uttar Pradesh commenced on Friday.
Polling is underway for seven parliamentary seats of North East -- five from Assam and one each from Manipur and Tripura -- in the second phase on Friday.
Congress president Mallikarjun on Friday said 2024 Lok Sabha polls are not an ordinary election but a step to ''protect the democracy from the clutches of dictatorship" as voting for the second phase of General Elections gets underway.
There were reports of malfunctioning of EVMs at several booths at the start but machines were either rectified or replaced by the authorities immediately.
Voting commenced at 28,758 polling booths at 7 am with great enthusiasm in 13 LS seats of Ajmer, Tonk-Sawaimadhopur, Pali, Jodhpur, Barmer, Jalore, Banswara, Udaipur, Chittorgarh, Rajsamand, Bhilwara, Kota and Jhalawar-Baran.
Appeasement politics of the opposition is evident in the Congress Manifesto, the BJP president said.
Congress leader KC Venugopal on Friday singled out his INDIA Bloc partner, the Communist Party of India (Marxist), for having a deal with the Bharatiya Janata Party.