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As voting began for 288 assembly constituencies in Maharashtra on Monday amidst heightened security, Bollywood celebrities including Ravi Kishan, Padmini Kolhapure and Subha Khote were among the early voters in Mumbai.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sought the participation of as many Indians to vote in Maharashtra and Haryana. Polling for 90 seats of Haryana and 288 constituencies of Maharashtra began at 7 am and will continue till 6 pm in the evening. PM Modi took to Twitter to urge voters to cast their votes. 

Union home minister Amit Shah was in West Bengal to inaugurate Durga puja at Salt Lake. During this occasion, he urged the voters to give BJP a chance. 

Former President Pranab Mukherjee has written the foreword to the book, The Game of Votes: Visual Media Politics and Elections in the Digital Era, published by SAGE, and terms it as a reflection on the mood swings of the "unpredictable but very intelligent" Indian voter.

 

Launching the Johar Jan Ashirvad Yatra to be undertaken by CM Raghubar Das, Union home minister and BJP national president urged voters to give BJP another chance. 

Taking to Twitter, the BJP in Andhra Pradesh had said that the chief minister fooled voters by visiting temples and likened him to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi by saying that it was a ploy to woo voters. However, as the truth emerged, the BJP withdrew its claims and said that few party leaders mistook an electric lamp for a traditional ceremonial lamp.

Karnataka BJP MP Anant Kumar Hegde was threatened by his voters as they would not elect him if he does not provide compensation to the flood-hit victims in north Karnataka. Congress leader and MP from Thiruvananthapuram Shashi Tharoor has earned the wrath of a court in Kolkata as it has issued an arrest warrant against him. The order comes in the wake of an advocate named Sumeet Chowdhary filing a case against the MP for his Hindu Pakistan remark in July last year. Watch MyNation in 100 seconds for all the top stories from across the country.

The election to the Vellore Lok Sabha constituency began at 7:45 am today (August 5) with the city recording 72% voter turnout by the end of polling. Counting of votes will be held on August 9.

With the Maharashtra assembly elections nearing, Shiv Sena's secretary Aadesh Bandekar, who is also a well-known Marathi actor and TV show host, has been given the task to carry out the campaign titled "Mauli Sanvad" that is aimed at reaching out to women voters

Former Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah took a jibe at the voters for choosing to vote for the BJP and not the Congress. He compared the BJP to the East India Company (EIC), which he said had a tactic of dividing the society to garner votes.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused the Congress of insulting voters in the country. Cauvery Water Management Authority ordered Karnataka to release water to Tamil Nadu based on the inflow in its reservoirs. For all this and more, watch MyNation in 100 seconds.

In Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech during the Motion of Thanks to the President’s address, he accused the Congress of insulting voters by questioning BJP’s victory

During her stay, the woman had obtained an Aadhaar card, PAN card, voter ID, ration card, secured a gas connection, and even obtained a pension certificate for the elderly in her name
 

64-year-old A Subair said in the Kerala high court that his name was removed from the voters’ list as the authorities said that he changed his residence to a new place while the names of his wife and daughter were retained

Stocks are soaring for Prashant Kishor and his company Indian Political Action Committee (IPAC) what with the increasing demands of politicos. Word now has it that Tamil Nadu chief minister Palaniswami is trying to rope in Kishor’s company to help him woo voters for the 2021 Assembly election