Google on Friday, April 19, 2024, marked the beginning of the first phase of the general elections in India with a doodle that featured an inked finger. When clicked it led the users to top stories on the first phase of the Lok Sabha polls.
The Google doodle comes on the day the world’s largest democratic exercise kicked off in India. Around 16 crore voters will exercise their franchise on Friday with 102 Lok Sabha constituencies going to the polls in the first of the seven phases of the election which will culminate on June 1.
All 39 Lok Sabha seats of Tamil Nadu and five seats of Uttarakhand, 12 seats in Rajasthan, eight crucial seats in western Uttar Pradesh, and six seats in Madhya Pradesh are among those going to the polls on Friday. A total of 1,625 candidates, 1,491 men and 134 women, are in the fray.
Voting will be held in ethnic violence-hit Manipur and Naxal-affected Bastar in Chhattisgarh. Polling will also be held for 92 Assembly seats in Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim.
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