‘I am a BJP cadre, done my duty’, says Mithun Chakraborty after casting his vote

KOLKATA (West Bengal) : Bharatiya Janata Party leader and actor Mithun Chakraborty on Saturday cast his vote in the final phase of the Lok Sabha polls.

He cast his vote at a polling booth in West Bengal’s Belgachia.

He told ANI, “I am a BJP cadre, I have done my duty. I will talk about films from tomorrow because I have to feed my family too.”

Meanwhile, voting is underway in West Bengal’s nine seats including– Barasat, Basirhat, Diamond Harbour, Dum Dum, Jaynagar, Jadavpur, Kolkata Dakshin, Kolkata Uttar, and Mathurapur.

A total of 904 candidates are in the fray for the final phase of polling. The prominent candidates in the fray in this phase include Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders Ravi Shankar Prasad, Nishikant Dubey, Ravneet Singh Bittu, Congress leaders Manish Tewari, Charanjit Singh Channi, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Misa Bharti.

लोक सभा चुनाव-2024 के लिए आज गोरखपुर में धर्मपत्नी श्रीमती प्रीति शुक्ला जी के साथ मतदान किया।

‘आत्मनिर्भर भारत-विकसित भारत’ के निर्माण के लिए आप सभी मतदान अवश्य करें।

जय हिंद! pic.twitter.com/hZWJx7wdqw

— Ravi Kishan (Modi Ka Parivar) (@ravikishann) June 1, 2024

Actor-turned-politician Kangana Ranaut from the BJP is fighting against Congress candidate Vikramaditya Singh in Mandi. Union Minister Anurag Thakur is in the fray from Hamirpur, actor-turned-politician Ravi Kishan is contesting from Gorakhpur and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew and Trinamool Congress candidate Abhishek Banerjee is contesting from Diamond Harbour.

#WATCH | Uttar Pradesh: BJP candidate from Gorakhpur, Ravi Kishan arrives at a polling booth in Gorakhpur to cast this vote for the seventh phase of #LokSabhaElections2024

The Gorakhpur seat sees a contest amid BJP’s Ravi Kishan, SP’s Kajal Nishad and BSP’s Javed Ashraf. pic.twitter.com/Tz54ZwpdBB

— ANI (@ANI) June 1, 2024

After the close of voting on June 1, the outcome of exit polls will be aired on various TV channels. The Election Commission has issued a ban on exit polls from 7 am on April 19 to 6:30 pm on June 1, till the conclusion of polling.

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. (ANI)