First Phase  

Finding your name in the voters list is not easy in every election and many of them miss the opportunity to vote. A Good Samaritan came to voters help in Mandya as he camped outside Chamundi Layout and assisted those who found their names missing in the electoral list as Karnataka voted in Lok Sabha election on Thursday
 

Kolar: Just hours before first phase of polling in Karnataka at 7 AM on April 18, a polling station in Kolar, Karnataka, has been set on fire. Miscreants have set poll booth 94 at Locharupalli in Srinivaspura Taluk in Kolar on fire. The window panes are broken and the properties have been damaged. Srinivaspur police have visited the poll booth. The election officers are said to be arranging for an alternate room to hold elections tomorrow.
 

Congress national spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi spoke out against her party after it reinstated some party leaders who had recently misbehaved with her. Tik Tok has been removed from Google Play Store and Apple Store following direction from the Indian government.  Watch MyNation in 100 seconds.
 

Karnataka: 14 constituencies out of 28 will go for elections on April 18. Here are the complete details about key constituencies, candidates, booths and party status

Karnataka chief electoral officer Sanjiv Kumar held a presser on Wednesday evening, a day ahead of the first phase of polling in the state. As many as 30,164 polling booths have been set up across the fourteen constituencies, 1,54,262 polling staff will be in attendance and as many as 40,000 police personnel will be in charge of security across the fourteen constituencies.

The first phase of polling was over on April 11 but the heat of election is rising every day. MyNation tried to get the pulse of the people of New Delhi constituency for the election of 2019

Although clashes broke out in various parts of Andhra Pradesh in the first phase of polling on Thursday, the state recorded over 80% voter turnout. Chief minister Chandrababu Naidu’s son Nara Lokesh sat in protest alleging poor poll preparedness

In the 2014 general election, a 79.88% voter turnout was recorded in Assam, while 78.61% was recorded in Arunachal Pradesh, 79.62% in Manipur, 68.79% in Meghalaya, 61.69% in Mizoram, 87.82% in Nagaland and 84.72% in Tripura.

Villagers in Bastar, Chattisgarh have now cast their vote in the first phase of general elections amid high security. Despite threats from naxals to boycott the election, villagers walked 10km to the polling stations.

 

Differently-abled voters were seen casting their votes in the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections with as much enthusiasm as any other voters. While Mohammad Mustaqim, who was physically challenged from childhood was seen reaching the polling booth with assistance, another man on a wheelchair was seen exercising his voting rights in Shamli, Kairana constituency in Uttar Pradesh.

Minister of state for home affairs Kiren Rijiju exercised his voting rights on Thursday. He is among the high profile candidates whose constituency witnessed voting in the first phase of the Lok Sabha polls.

Remember Bhatta from 2011? When the twin village of Bhatta and Parsaul erupted in fury over forcible land acquisition by the then Mayawati government, shots were fired, farmers were killed and the bedrock for Uttar Pradesh politics was formed. 

Eight years later, MyNation decided to revisit Bhatta 24 hours before the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections. The village that once saw political biggies likely Rahul Gandhi camp there is now forgotten. Though the land provided by the people of Bhatta helped to create one of the finest infrastructural projects - the Yamuna Expressway; has 'vikas' or development reached the villagers? And who do they want to vote for? The answer will shock you!

Team MyNation was in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh that has gone to polls today to gauge the winds of politics. It is part of the crucial of Indian politics with the onset of the first phase of the seven-phase Lok Sabha elections 2019. 

As Rishikesh concluded its first phase of polling of Lok Sabha election on Thursday, MyNation spoke to a few voters to understand the overall mood prevailing in the constituency

The Dehradun constituency entered the Lok Sabha elections 2019 on the first phase of the seven-phase elections. While speaking to MyNation, the voters expressed their view on how unemployment, GST and the demonetisation affected them. Some of the electorates also hinted at how they are keen on getting BJP back to power. In Uttarakhand, 52 candidates are contesting in five constituencies. Main parties are the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Congress and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). For phase 1 Lok Sabha election on April 11, the number of polling centres is 11,235.