New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, cricketer-turned-politician Gautam Gambhir, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi were among the voters who exercised their franchise on Saturday in the sixth and penultimate phase-6 of General Elections 2024 that kicked off across six states and two Union Territories. Till 11 am, 25.76 per cent voter turnout was recorded, with Delhi seeing 21.69% polling. West Bengal saw the maximum turnout at 36.88%.
Over 11 crore voters will decide the fate of 889 candidates contesting in Phase 6 of the general elections across 58 seats.
Among the prominent candidates in this phase are Union ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and Rao Inderjit Singh, BJP’s Maneka Gandhi, Sambit Patra, Manohar Khattar and Manoj Tiwari, Mehbooba Mufti and Congress’s Kanhaiya Kumar.
The last phase of voting will take place on June 1, following which counting of votes will take place on June 4.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is out on interim bail in the liquor policy case, cast his vote along with his wife Sunita Kejriwal in Delhi. “People are voting in large numbers against dictatorship, inflation and unemployment,” he said. AAP Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal also voted today, saying women’s participation in politics was very important
