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Snapshot of the day

May 16, 2024

Siddharth Varadarajan

After facing flak for sharing only voter turnout data in percentages rather than actual votes cast, the Election Commission now says a total of “451 million” persons have voted in all the four phases gone by but still refuses to put out constituency-data for