Voters show their fingers marked with indelible ink next to a BR Ambedkar statue after casting votes for the second phase of Lok Sabha elections, in Bhagalpur.
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A voter shows his finger marked with indelible ink after casting vote for the second phase of Lok Sabha elections, in Meerut.
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Bru (ethnic group) people show their ID cards as they wait to cast their votes for the second phase of Lok Sabha elections, at a special polling center set up about 170 Km away from Agartala.
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A woman carrying a child shows her finger marked with indelible ink after casting vote for the second phase of Lok Sabha elections, in Morigaon district.
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People at a polling station to cast their votes for the 2nd phase of Lok Sabha elections, in Meerut.
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A security person guards as people wait in queues to cast their votes for the second phase of Lok Sabha elections, at Kanchanpur in North Tripura.
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Elderly women show their fingers marked with indelible ink after casting their votes for the second phase of Lok Sabha elections, in Morigaon district.
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People wait in queues to cast their votes for the 2nd phase of Lok Sabha polls at a polling station at Rajarajeshwari Nagar, in Bengaluru.
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Voters show their ink-marked fingers and ID cards after casting their votes for the 2nd phase of Lok Sabha elections, in Jammu.
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BJP candidate from Jodhpur constituency Gajendra Singh Shekhawat with family shows victory sign after casting vote for the second phase of Lok Sabha elections, in Jodhpur.
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First-time voters show their fingers marked with indelible ink after casting their votes for the second phase of Lok Sabha elections, in Morigaon district of Assam.
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Sanyasins wait in a queue to cast their votes for the second phase of Lok Sabha polls, in Mathura.
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Madhya Pradesh minister and BJP leader Prahlad Patel shows his inked finger at a selfie stand after casting his vote for the second phase of Lok Sabha elections, in Narsinghpur.
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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman shows her finger marked with indelible ink after casting vote for the 2nd phase of Lok Sabha elections, in Bengaluru.
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BJP candidate Ramdas Tadas and his family members show their fingers marked with indelible ink after casting their votes for the second phase of Lok Sabha polls, in Wardha.
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Tripura assembly Speaker Biswa Bandhu Sen shows his finger marked with indelible ink after casting his vote for the 2nd phase of Lok Sabha elections, at Dharmanagar, in North Tripura.
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Congress candidate Raman Bhalla at a polling station after casting his vote for the 2nd phase of Lok Sabha elections, in Jammu.
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Independent candidate Pappu Yadav shows his finger marked with indelible ink after casting his vote for the 2nd phase of Lok Sabha elections, in Purnea.
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Congress candidate Shashi Tharoor standing in a queue waits to cast his vote for the second phase of Lok Sabha elections, in Thiruvananthapuram.
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Chhattisgarh Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Sharma shows his finger marked with indelible ink after casting his vote for the 2nd phase of Lok Sabha elections, at Kawardha in Kabirdham district.
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Tripura Minister Tinku Roy shows his inked finger after casting his vote for the 2nd phase of Lok Sabha elections, at Dharmanagar in North Tripura.
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Maharaja Gaj Singh with family shows his ink-marked fingers after casting his vote for the second phase of Lok Sabha elections, in Jodhpur.
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Former Union Minister AK Antony and his wife Elizabeth show their ink marked finger after casting votes for the second phase of Lok Sabha elections, in Thiruvananthapuram.
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Bengaluru South constituency BJP candidate Tejasvi Surya and MLA Ravi Subramanyam with family members show their fingers marked with indelible ink after casting votes for the 2nd phase of Lok Sabha elections, in Bengaluru.
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NDA candidate H D Kumaraswamy and his wife Anitha shows their inked fingers after casting their votes for the 2nd phase of Lok Sabha elections, in Ramnagara.
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West Bengal Governor Dr C.V. Ananda Bose and his wife show their fingers marked with indelible ink after casting their vote for the second phase of Lok Sabha polls, in Trivandrum.
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United Democratic Front (UDF) candidate Hibi Eden and wife Anna Eden arrives to cast their votes for the second phase of Lok Sabha elections, at Ernakulam, Kerala.
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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan at a polling booth after casting his vote for the second phase of Lok Sabha polls, in Kannur.
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BJP leader R Ashoka and his wife show their finger marked with indelible ink after casting votes for the 2nd phase of Lok Sabha elections, in Bengaluru.
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Biocon Executive Chairperson Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw shows her finger marked with indelible ink after casting her vote for the second phase of Lok Sabha polls, in Bengaluru.
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Karnataka Dy CM D K Shivakumar and his brother D K Suresh show their fingers marked with indelible ink after casting their votes for the 2nd phase of Lok Sabha elections, in Kanakpura.
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Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah after casting his vote at a polling booth for the second phase of Lok Sabha polls, in Siddaramanahundi, Karnataka.
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BJP candidate Navneet Rana shows her ink-marked finger after casting her vote for the second phase of Lok Sabha elections, in Amravati.
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Congress candidate Shashi Tharoor shows his ink marked finger after casting his vote for the second phase of Lok Sabha elections, in Thiruvananthapuram.
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TMC leader Sushmita Dev shows her finger marked with indelible ink after casting her vote for the second phase of Lok Sabha polls, in Silchar, Assam.
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Congress candidate Dolly Sharma shows her inked finger after casting her vote for the 2nd phase of Lok Sabha polls, in Ghaziabad.
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BTC Chief Pramod Boro and his wife show their ink marked fingers after casting votes for the 2nd phase of Lok Sabha polls at Tamulpur, Assam.
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Rashtriya Lok Dal Chief Jayant Chaudhary and his wife show their fingers marked with indelible ink after casting their vote for the second phase of Lok Sabha polls, in Mathura.