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Lok Sabha Election 2019 India Phase 5 Voting Live News Updates: The stakes are high for the ruling BJP and its allies as it had swept 40 of these seats in 2014, leaving just two for the Congress.
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The voter turnout in Uttar Pradesh in the first two hours polling was nearly 10 per cent.
There were reports of EVM glitches in some polling booths, including Amethi and Rae Bareli, the two strongholds of Congress.
Election officials here said polling was going on smoothly, barring some complaints of EVM malfunctioning, which were attended to immediately to ensure voting was not hampered.
In the Pulwama district of Anantnag in Jammu and Kashmir, militants tried to disrupt the polling process by lobbing a grenade at a polling station, PTI reported.
A grenade was lobbed towards Rohmoo polling station but there were no reports of any casualties in the blast, a police official told PTI.
Several important leaders, including Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Union minister Smriti Irani, are in the fray in the fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections, which will see voting across seven states in 51 constituencies.
In Uttar Pradesh, both Rae Bareli and Amethi — constituencies which are traditional strongholds of Congress — will see a riveting contest, with the SP-BSP alliance lending their support to the party by not fielding their candidates from the respective constituencies.