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It's your right, so go out and vote: Malaika Arora casting her mandate in Lok Sabha polls

| @indiablooms | May 20, 2024, at 08:56 pm

Mumbai/IBNS: Bollywood actress Malaika Arora was one in the long list of tinseltown stars to head to the polling booths and cast their mandates in Mumbai as the Lok Sabha elections are underway on Monday.

Casting her vote, Malaika said, "I would appeal that it's your right to vote, so go out and exercise your right to vote."

Voting is currently underway in 49 seats across six states and two Union Territories in the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha polls on Monday.

The voting process started at 7 am.

Despite the small number of seats going for polls in this phase, the fates of high-profile leaders like  Union Minister Rajnath Singh, Smriti Irani, and Piyush Goyal, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.

In this phase, over 8.95 crore voters are eligible to express their democratic choice across 94,732 polling stations in the country.

States/UTs going for polls in phase-5 are - Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal.

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