Lok Sabha Election 2019 Phase 3 Live Updates: PM Modi casts vote; says \'voter ID\' more powerful than \'IED\'

Lok Sabha Election 2019 Phase 3 Live Updates: PM Modi casts vote; says 'voter ID' more powerful than 'IED'

Lok Sabha Election Phase 3: States going to poll in the Lok Sabha election Phase 3 are Uttar Pradesh, Tripura, Kerala, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Gujarat, West Bengal, Bihar, Assam, Goa, Jammu & Kashmir and Union Territories Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli

Lok Sabha Phase 3 Election: A total of 116 parliamentary constituencies are going to poll today.

Phase 3 voting of the Lok Sabha election 2019 has begun, with a total of 116 parliamentary constituencies going to poll today. All arrangements have been put in place to ensure peaceful voting in 13 states and two Union Territories. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah will soon cast their votes in Ahmedabad. The Lok Sabha Phase 3 election will also decide the fate of Rahul Gandhi, who is contesting from the Wayanad constituency in Kerala. States where polls are being held include Gujarat (26 constituencies), Kerala (20), Maharashtra (14), Karnataka (10), Uttar Pradesh (10), Chhattisgarh (7), Odisha (6), Bihar (5), West Bengal (5), Assam (4), Goa (2), one each in Jammu and Kashmir, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu and Tripura.

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Here are all the live updates of the phase 3 of the Lok Sabha election.

8.47AM: PM Narendra Modi in Ahmedabad:"The weapon of terrorism is IED, the strength of democracy is voter ID. I can say with surety that the voter ID is much much more powerful than an IED, so we should understand the strength of our voter IDs." (ANI)

8.39AM: "Today third phase of polling is underway, I am fortunate that I also got the opportunity to fulfill my duty in my home state of Gujarat. Like you feel pure after a holy dip in Kumbh, one feels pure after casting vote in this festival of democracy," says Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

8.36AM: Nationalist Congress Party's Supriya Sule along with her family casts her vote a polling station in Baramati.

8.30AM: PM Narendra Modi casts his vote at a polling booth in Ranip, Ahmedabad.

8.34AM: Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives to cast his vote at polling booth in Nishan Higher Secondary School in Ranip, Ahmedabad.

8.13AM: Watch video of PM Modi's meeting with his mother.

8.12AM: Total 18.85 crore voters will decide the fate of 1,640 candidates in the phase 3 election today.

8.03AM: Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets his mother at her residence in Gandhinagar.

8.01AM: Kerala CM P Vijayan queues up to cast his vote.

7.47AM: Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets people outside his mother's residence in Gandhinagar.

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7.47AM: BJP President Amit Shah near the polling booth at Nishan Higher Secondary School in Ranip, Ahmedabad. All the 26 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat will go to the polls. The state has been a stronghold of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

7.44AM: Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives in Ahmedabad cast his vote.

7.35am: Here's a ready reckoner of what's at stake at Phase 3 Election 2019.

7.24AM: Voting begins for four Lok Sabha seats in Assam. People queue up outside polling station number 224 in Dhubri to cast their votes.

7.15AM: BJP chief Amit Shah appeals voters to cast votes.

7.00AM: Prime Minister Narendra Modi to vote in Ahmedabad in a short while from now.

Edited by Manoj Sharma

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