Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, Rabri Devi, and their daughter Rohini Acharya exercised their voting rights at a polling booth in Patna during the seventh and final phase of the Lok Sabha Elections 2024 on Saturday. Following casting her vote, RJD leader and former Bihar CM Rabri Devi expressed confidence in winning all 40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar. “We will win all the 40 seats in Bihar. INDIA alliance will come to power,” Rabri Devi said. Rohini Acharya is the party candidate from the Saran Lok Sabha seat, pitted against BJP candidate Rajiv Pratap Rudy.
Elections in Bihar are contested in all seven phases. With 40 Lok Sabha constituencies, the fourth highest among all States and Union Territories, Bihar holds a crucial position in shaping Indian politics. The seventh phase marks a grand finish to the world’s largest polling marathon that began on the 19th of last month and has already covered six phases and 486 Lok Sabha seats. Voting started in the last 57 parliamentary constituencies at 7 am today across seven states and the Union Territory of Chandigarh. According to the Election Commission of India, over 10.06 crore electors including approximately 5.24 crore male, 4.82 crore female, and 3574 third gender electors are expected to exercise their franchise.
The seven States in which polling is underway include Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, and the Union Territory of Chandigarh. Polling for the remaining 42 Assembly constituencies of the Odisha State Legislative Assembly will also take place simultaneously. Polling for the earlier six phases of Lok Sabha elections was held on April 19, April 26, May 7, May 13, May 20, and May 25. Assembly polls have also been held in Andhra Pradesh, Sikkim, and Arunachal Pradesh. Odisha is seeing simultaneous polls to Lok Sabha and assembly in the last four phases.
