• By Abhirupa Kundu
  • Fri, 19 Apr 2024 03:53 PM (IST)
  • Source:JND

Manipur, Assam, Uttarakhand Live Election News: Voting for Lok Sabha Election 2024 commenced on Friday. This is the first phase of polling to take place with six other phases remaining. The Phase 1 voting will cover 102 constituencies across 21 states. This copy will bring to you live updates of the Lok Sabha Election 2024 from the states of Manipur, Assam and Uttarakhand. Manipur will witness voting for the constituencies of Inner Manipur and Outer Manipur while in Assam the seats including Dibrugarh, Jorhat, Kaziranga, Lakhimpur, and Sonitpur will see polling. All five seats in the hill state of Uttarakhand, Tehri Garhwal, Garhwal, Almora, Nainital-Udhamsingh Nagar, Haridwar, will be taking part in the electoral process on Friday.

The key parties contesting in Manipur which has been embroiled in ethnic clashes, include the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Naga People's Front (NPF) as a part of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) with Congress in the opposition. In Assam, the key candidates in the fray are Congress' deputy leader in the Lok Sabha Gaurav Gogoi, contesting from Jorhat; former Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal, contesting for BJP from Dibrugarh and Ranjit Dutta for BJP and Prem Lal Ganju for Congress in Sonitpur.

Check LIVE News Updates For Voting in Manipur, Uttarakhand, Assam Seats in Phase 1: 

15:50 PM: The voter turnout was recorded at  60.70 percent for Assam till 3:00 PM. 

15:40 PM: The voter turnout was recorded at  45.62 per cent for Uttarakhand till 3:00 PM. 

15:30 PM: The voter turnout was recorded at  63.03 percent for Manipur till 3:00 PM. 

14:05 PM: Uttarakhand records 37.33 per cent voter turnout till 11:00 PM. 

13:50 PM: Manipur records 46.92 per cent voter turnout till 1:00 PM. 

13:40 PM: Assam records 45.12 per cent voter turnout till 1:00 PM. 

13:20 PM: In another instance in Manipur, armed miscreants reportedly enetered a polling booth in Imphal East's Khongman and engaged in proxy voting.

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12:30 PM: Manipur Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Voting News: With voting underway, Manipur which has been troubled with ethnic clashes, witnessed poll violence on Friday as miscreats fired shots ouside a polling booth at Thamanpokpi under Moirang Assembly constituency in Inner Manipur, reported The Hindu.

11:45 AM: Assam records 27.22 per cent voter turnout till 11:00 AM. 

11:30 AM: Uttarakhand records 24.83 per cent voter turnout till 11:00 AM. 

11:15 AM: Manipur records 29.23 per cent voter turnout till 11:00 AM.

10:55 AM: Uttarakhand Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Voting News: After casting his vote Baba Ramdev said, "I have voted for the country. We want India to be free from the shackles of educational, medical, cultural, economic and ideological slavery. I have voted for the development and prosperity of the country."

10:40 AM: Congress candidate Pradeep Tamta casts his vote and says, "I appeal to all the voters of Almora to come out and vote in large numbers to strengthen our Democracy."

10:30 AM: Manipur Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Voting News: Chief Electoral Officer Pradeep Kumar Jha said that voting has been taking place normally since morning and people are coming in large numbers. "The morning shows the day, so the initial trends indicate that we are going to have a high voting percentage. People deployed for polling duty have been reporting that things are normal, nothing untoward has been reported so far," he said. 

10:15 AM: Yoga Guru Ramdev and Acharya Bal Krishna cast their vote at a polling booth in Haridwar, Uttarakhand. The duo has been facing a case of contempt for misleading advertisements of Patanjali's medicinal products.

9:50 AM: Assam Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Voting News: Assam recorded 11.15 per cent voter turn out in the morning. 

9:46 AM: Uttarakhand recorded 10.54 per cent voter turnout initially in the morning. The voting for the Lok Sabha elections in the state are taking place in a singke phase. 

9:40 AM: Manipur recorded over 11 per cent voter turnout till 9:30 AM.

9:35 AM: Manipur Lok Sabha Election 2024: After exercising his franchise, CM N Biren Singh said, "I am delighted today that the first phase of elections is being held and I can cast my vote. We have to make PM Modi the Prime Minister for the third time."

9:30 AM: Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Dhami after casting his vote Khatina saud that everyone should vote for a strong India, the safety of our borders, the upliftment of the poor and the development of the country.

9:25 AM: Manipur Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Voting News: Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh casts his vote at a polling booth in Luwangsangbam Mamang Leikai, in Imphal East.

9:17 AM: Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami along with his mother and wife cast his vote for the first phase of Lok Sabha Elections 2024 at a polling station in Khatima.

9:10 AM: Former Uttarakhand Chief Minister and BJP candidate from Haridwar, Trivendra Singh Rawat cast his vote along with his family at a polling booth in Dehradun today.

9:05 AM: A newly-married couple voted for the Uttarakhand Lok Sabha Election 2024 at a polling booth in Pauri Garhwal today.

9:00 AM: Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami offered prayers at the Purnagiri temple in Khatima before casting his vote, today.

8:55 AM: Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami reaches a polling station in Khatima to cast his vote for the first phase of Lok sabha Election 2024. 

8:50 AM: Assam Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Voting News: Congress MP and candidate from Jorhat Lok Sabha seat, Gaurav Gogoi said, "It is an important day today and I appeal to everyone to come out of their houses and cast their votes to save the democracy and the culture of the country."

8:40 AM: Congress candidate from Pauri Garhwal Lok Sabha seat, Ganesh Godiyal casts his vote along with his family. 

8:20 AM: BJP candidate, Anil Baluni earlier offered prayers Kandoliya Devta temple before casting his vote. The saffron camp won the Pauri Garhwal seat or the last two consecutive parliamentary elections, in 2014 and 2019.

8:10 AM: Uttarakhand Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Voting News: With voting for Phase 1 underway, BJP candidate from Pauri Garhwal constituency Anil Baluni said, "It is the biggest festival of the world's largest democracy and today is the day of voting. There is no competition anywhere. In my lifetime I have not seen such a one-sided election. All the people have made up their minds 'Abki baar 400 paar." Congress has fielded party leader Ganesh Godiyal from the seat.

7:55 AM: In Assam's Dibrugarh Union Minister and BJP candidate from Dibrugarh Lok Sabha constituency, Sarbananda Sonowal said that people will happily participate in this voting process and alerted the Congress about "its condition". "They are going to get less seats than before," Sonowal said. 

7:40 AM: As voting began for all five seats in Uttarakhand, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said, "'Pehle matdaan phir jalpaan'...Today is the mega festival of democracy. I appeal to everyone to cast their votes and choose a good government. Under the leadership of PM Modi, India has seen new heights in the last 10 years and our country has got global recognition...PM Modi wants to create a strong India and a strong Uttarakhand." 

7:20 AM: Uttarakhand Health Secretary Dr R Rajesh Kumar has issued an order that all medical colleges and medical units in the state will remain open on Friday on the day of voting for the Lok Sabha elections.

7:10 AM: Uttarakhand Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Voting News: In Uttarakhand, the key candidates include former chief minister and BJP candidate Trivendra Singh Rawat, contesting from the Haridwar constituency against Virender Rawat of the Congress and Ajay Tamta in Almora who is pitted against Congress' Pradeep Tamta. 

7:00 AM: Voting for 13 constituencies across the states of Manipur, Uttarakhand and Assam begin for the first phase of Lok Sabha Election 2024.