People queue at polling stations in K’taka, the Yediyurappa family cast their votes

Bengaluru, May 7 People queued up early on Tuesday outside the 28,269 polling stations of 14 parliamentary constituencies to exercise their voting rights in Karnataka.

Former Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa along with families of his two sons, state president BY Vijayendra, and Shivamogga BJP candidate BY Raghavendra cast their votes at booth number 137 in Shikaripura town of Shivamogga district. Before casting their votes, the Yediyurappa family visited the Huccharaya Swamy temple and offered prayers.

Former CM and Haveri BJP candidate Basavaraj Bommai will cast his vote at booth number 112 at Government Boy’s Kannada Medium School in Shiggaon town of Haveri district.

Voting is underway for seats in the northern region of Karnataka, besides the hilly Shivamogga district and the coastal Uttara Kannada district.

Elaborate arrangements have been made for the second and final phase of elections to the remaining 14 Lok Sabha constituencies of Karnataka on Tuesday, the Election Commission said.

A total of 1,40,705 polling agents, 4,027 micro observers, 45,695 police personnel, 65 Central Armed Forces Defense Forces (CAPF) companies and 2,360 sector officials have been deployed. There are 28,269 voting booths, of which 17,643 are webcasted.

The 14 seats have 2,59,17,493 voters: 1,29,83,406 male voters and 1,29,67,709 women. There are 339 foreign voters, while the age group of 18 to 19 years totals 6.90 lakh and those above 85 years 2.29 lakh. The number of physically challenged voters stands at 3.43 lakh.

Kalaburagi constituency has the highest number of voters at 20.98 lakh, while Uttara Kannada has the least at 16.41 lakh.

There are 227 candidates, including 21 women, in Tuesday’s election, with the highest number of candidates (30) contesting for the Davanagere Lok Sabha seat and the least (8) in Bijapur constituency.

Prominent candidates include Union Minister Pralhad Joshi (Dharwad), former CMs Jagadish Shettar (Belagavi) and Basavaraj Bommai (Haveri), and former CM BS Yediyurappa’s son BY Raghavendra (Shivamogga) (all BJP), and Congress president’s son Mallikarjkun Kharge. law Radhakrishna Doddamani (Kalaburagi).

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