Lok Sabha Elections 2024: PM Modi urges people to ‘vote in record numbers’ in phase 3 polling

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Lok Sabha elections begins on Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged ‘active participation’ of voters to make the polls ‘more vibrant’ today, May 7. “Urging all those who are voting in today’s phase to vote in record numbers. Their active participation will certainly make the elections more vibrant," PM Modi wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter).

The polling is being held at 93 Lok Sabha constituencies across 11 states and Union Territories in the third phase of Lok Sabha Elections 2024 today. As many as 1,331 candidates are in the fray in the phase 3 polls. Fate of over 283 Lok Sabha seats would be sealed after the third phase is over today.

This means elections to more than half of the 543 Lok Sabha seats will be over in the first three phases. Also Read | Live updates on Lok Sabha Elections 2024 phase 3 Voting began at 7 am and will end at 6 pm. The polling will be completed in Gujarat and Goa states and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu Union territories on Tuesday.

Also with 14 seats voting in this phase, voting for all 28 seats of Karnataka will also be over today. With seven seats voting today, the Lok Sabha Election for 11 seats of Chhattisgarh will also be over. Among the other seats third phase are four in Assam, five in Bihar, seven in Chhattisgarh, eight in Madhya Pradesh, 11 in Maharashtra, 10 in Uttar Pradesh and four in West Bengal.

Among the key candidates whose fate will be sealed today include Union Home Minister Amit Shah who is contesting from Gandhinagar (Gujarat), Shivraj Singh Chouhan from Vidisha (MP), Jyotiraditya Scindia from Guna (MP) and Dimple Yadav from Mainpuri (UP), to name a few. As many as 17.24 crore voters are eligible to vote in the third phase. Around 18.5 lakh Polling