PM Modi urges voters to vote in large numbers as polling begins in phase 6
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New Delhi: As polls for the sixth and penultimate round of the Lok Sabha election got off in 58 seats spread across seven states and one Union Territory, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged every voter to make their "votes count".
He stated on his official X account that "democracy thrives" when its citizens participate actively in the electoral process.
"I urge all those who are voting in the 6th phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections to vote in large numbers. Every vote counts, make yours count too! Democracy thrives when its people are engaged and active in the electoral process," he wrote on X.
Additionally, the prime minister "specially" urged young people and women to cast ballots in large numbers.
Phase 6 of the Lok Sabha Election 2024 will take place in eight seats in West Bengal and Bihar, seven in Delhi, ten in Haryana, four in Jharkhand, fourteen in Uttar Pradesh, and the last seat in Jammu and Kashmir, Anantnag-Rajouri, where voting was shifted from the third to the sixth phase.
In addition, 42 assembly seats and six Lok Sabha seats are up for election in Odisha. 486 of the 543 Lok Sabha seats will have been filled by the end of today, and voting in Jammu & Kashmir, Delhi, and Haryana will come to a finish.
In the last Lok Sabha elections of 2019, PM Modi's BJP alone won 40 of the 58 constituencies in the east and the heartland of Hindi. Five extra seats were secured by its NDA allies. The opposition INDIA bloc's three parties, the Samajwadi Party, the National Conference, and the Trinamool Congress, had each won five seats while the Congress had none.
The Bahujan Samaj Party, led by former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh Mayawati, and Naveen Patnaik's Biju Janata Dal also picked up a few seats. The Bahujan Samaj Party ran in an alliance with Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party in 2019 but is currently non-aligned.