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Yogi, Bhajji, Nitish... Biggies cast their vote!

Last updated on: May 19, 2019 20:20 IST

Polling is underway for 59 Lok Sabha seats in the seventh and last phase of Lok Sabha polls to decide the fate of 918 candidates including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is seeking to retain the Varanasi seat in Uttar Pradesh.

Take a look at the famous faces who exercised their democratic right.

IMAGE: West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee flashes victory sign after casting her vote at a polling booth in Kolkata. Photograph: Swapan Mahapatra/PTI Photo
 

IMAGE: Actor-turned-politician Trinamool Congresss party candidate from Asansol constitituency Moon Moon Sen with hers daughters and Bollywood actors Raima Sen and Riya Sen after casting their votes at a polling station in Kolkata. Photograph: PTI Photo

IMAGE: Congress candidate from Patna Sahib Shatrughan Sinha with wife Poonam Sinha leave after casting their votes in Patna. Photograph: PTI Photo

IMAGE: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh shows his inked fingers after casting votes for the seventh and last phase of elections, in Patiala. Photograph: PTI Photo

IMAGE: Did she vote for Sadhvi Pragya Thakur? Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan shows her finger marked with ink after casting her vote in Indore. Photograph: PTI Photo

IMAGE: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath exercises his franchise at the Prathmik Vidyalaya near Jhoolelal Temple in Gorakhpur at 7 am. Photograph: PTI Photo

IMAGE: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar casts his vote at a polling station located at a government school near Raj Bhavan in Patna. Asserting that elections should not be held in so many phases, the Janata Dal-United chief said that elections should be held in minimal phases so that voters should not have any problems in exercising their franchise as there is no shade for them at polling stations and they have to stand in queues. Photograph: ANI

IMAGE: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's son Nishant Kumar shows his finger marked with indelible ink after casting vote at a polling station during the seventh phase of Lok Sabha elections in Patna. Photograph: / Rediff.com

IMAGE: Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Rabri Devi flashes her inked finger after casting her vote in Patna. Photograph: PTI Photo

IMAGE: RJD leader Tej Pratap shows his inked finger at a polling station after casting his vote for the seventh and last phase of Lok Sabha elections, in Patna. Photograph: PTI Photo

IMAGE: Union minister and BJP candidate Ravi Shankar Prasad gets his finger marked with ink at a Patna polling booth. Photograph: PTI Photo

IMAGE: Cricketer Harbhajan Singh waits in queue to cast his vote at a polling booth in Jalandhar's Garhi village. Photograph: ANI

IMAGE: Former Union minister and Congress's cndidate from Chandigarh, Pawan Kumar Bansal, shows his inked finger after casting his vote. Photograph: ANI

IMAGE: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee's nephew and Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee at a polling booth at the South Kolkata Parliamentary constituency. Photograph: PTI Photo

IMAGE: BJP's candidate from South Kolkata parliamentary constituency, CK Bose, flashes his inked finger in Kolkata. Photograph: ANI

IMAGE: Lokpal Chairperson Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose and his wife Debjani Ghose show their finger marked with indelible ink in Kolkata. Photograph: Swapan Mahapatra/PTI Photo

IMAGE: A family that votes together, stays together! Former Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal, Akali Dal candidate from Bathinda constituency Harsimrat Kaur Badal with her daughters Gurleen Kaur and Harkirat Kaur, flash their finger at Badal village of Sri Muktsar Sahib district. Photograph: PTI Photo

IMAGE: Punjab minister and Congress leaders Navjot Singh Sidhu with his wife Navjot Kaur Sidhu after casting their votes in Amritsar. Photograph: PTI Photo

IMAGE: BJP veterna leader Murli Manohar Joshi shows his inked finger outside a polling booth in Varanasi. Photograph: PTI Photo

IMAGE: Congress candidate for Varanasi parliamentary seat Ajay Rai shows his inked finger after casting his vote. Photograph: PTI Photo

IMAGE: Senior Congress leader Anand Sharma casts his vote at a polling station during the seventh and last phase of Lok Sabha elections, in Shimla. Photograph: PTI Photo

IMAGE: Former cricket captain and Sourav Ganguly, his wife noted-dancer Dona Ganguly and his brother ex-cricketer Snehasish Ganguly show their inked fingers in Kolkata. Photograph: PTI Photo

IMAGE: Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur with family members show their inked fingers at Thunag Teshsil in Mandi. Photograph: PTI Photo

IMAGE: Veteran athlete Milkha Singh and wife Nirmal Kaur show their inked fingers at a polling booth in Chandigarh. Photograph: PTI Photo