Lok Sabha Election 2019 Phase 5 LIVE: Voter turnout recorded at 57% in Bihar till 6pm

Clashes erupted at many places on Monday between mobs and security forces after the elections ended in the Anantnag Lok Sabha seat with a dismal voter turnout of 3 per cent.

The turnout in the third and final phase of polling in Anantnag constituency is the lowest in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in the troubled state.

But the Ladakh Lok Sabha constituency saw a 51.9 per cent voter turnout. The overall voter turnout in both Anantnag and Ladakh constituencies was 15.2 per cent.

The poll process in the third phase of Anantnag was marred by violence although the security forces used restraint in controlling the mobs which stoned polling stations and engaged the security forces in pitched clashes throughout the day.

Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party Chief Arvind Kejriwal campaigns for party's candidate from South Delhi, Raghav Chadha, in Delhi's Tehkhand Village area.

The Congress on Monday alleged none of the Modi government's flagship schemes has met its target and said the Prime Minister "will sink in his own wave of lies".

Addressing a press conference at the Congress headquarters, party leader Navjot Singh Sidhu shared details about various schemes of the BJP government.

"I am keeping the truth of flagship programs in front of you. The Prime Minister will sink in his own wave of lies. It is a guarantee," he said.

"All the work remains incomplete but the lies are complete. Their promises are like a bamboo -- very long but hollow from inside," he added.

Due to cyclone Fani, ECI has extend the completion of the elections on Patkura assembly constituency for 60 days. Earlier, ECI had appointed 19th May as the date of poll for Patkura Assembly Constituency after the demise of BJD candidate Bed Prakash Agarwalla.

Scuffle breaks out between TMC's MP from Howrah, Prasun Banerjee and security forces at polling booth no. 49 & 50 in Howrah.

The Samajwadi Party has alleged booth capturing in Kunda in Uttar Pradesh's Kaushambi Lok Sabha seat. He claimed that booth capturing had taken place at more than 50 polling booths.

The presiding officer of booth no 316 in Gauriganj in Amethi has been replaced after a video of a woman complaining that she was forced to vote for the Congress by the official went viral.

Deserted roads leading to polling stations with no or a few voters and overbearing presence of security forces were dominant scenes on Monday in militancy-infested Pulwama and Shopian districts of Jammu and Kashmir where polling is underway for the Anantnag parliamentary constituency.

Known for blowing hot and cold against ally BJP, Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party chief Om Prakash Rajbhar claimed Monday he has resigned from the Yogi Adityanath government and it was up to the saffron party to decide on it.

"I tendered resignation as minister on April 13. It is up to the BJP to decide whether to accept or reject it," Rajbhar, a cabinet minister in the UP government, told reporters here.

"I have nothing to do with the government now," he said.

A Delhi court on Monday reserved order for May 13 on AAP leader Atishi Marlena's plea to summon records from the state Election Commission on her complaint against BJP rival Gautam Gambhir alleging that he was enrolled as a voter in two assembly segments.

Metropolitan Magistrate Viplav Dabas reserved the order on the plea of Marlena, Lok Sabha candidate from East Delhi.

Maharashtra Congress president Ashok Chavan Monday demanded installation of "network jammers" in and around strongrooms where EVMs used for polling are kept.

Addressing a press conference after meeting the chief electoral officer on the issue, Chavan claimed electronic voting machines can be tampered using wireless networks like mobile phone towers, wi-fi networks and hence such jammers were required.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni casts his vote at a polling booth in Jawahar Vidya Mandir in Ranchi, Jharkhand.

One All India Trinamool Congress supporter dies in inter-party clashes at Khangosh in East Burdwan.

Congress party will provide more than Rs. 22 lakhs to the people/youth of the country in a year. I will not insult the armed forces. Congress will give martyr status to the paramilitary forces who lay down their lives for our country, said Rahul Gandhi

Former legislator Sheikh Abdul Rashid on Monday led a protest march here against the alleged "failure" of the Jammu and Kashmir government to provide basic amenities to the people.

Rashid, along with the supporters of his Awami Ittehad Party (AIP), assembled near the Magarmal Bagh area of the city and tried to march towards the civil secretariat – the seat of Jammu and Kashmir government.

An estimated 26.19 per cent of over 87.66 lakh electorate exercised their franchise till noon in five Lok Sabha seats of Bihar on Monday, during the fifth phase of the seven-phase polls, an election official said.

Polling is underway in Sitamarhi, Madhubani, Muzaffarpur, Saran and Hajipur parliamentary seats amid tight security, with no violence reported from any part of the state, he said.

Two persons, including a Home Guard, engaged in election duty died in separate incidents in Madhya Pradesh, an official said on Monday.

Home Guard Mahesh Dubey, who was deployed at a polling booth in Betul Lok Sabha constituency, died due to cardiac arrest on Monday morning, state Chief Electoral Officer V L Kantha Rao said.

Besides, a kotwar (village watchman), Nandulal Nagle, who was also engaged in poll duty in Betul constituency, died after suffering a heart attack on Saturday, he said.

An average 29.76 per cent polling was recorded till noon in seven Lok Sabha seats of Madhya Pradesh on Monday, an election official said.

Polling was underway since 7 am in the seven constituencies - Tikamgarh, Damoh, Khajuraho, Satna, Rewa, Hoshangabad and Betul.

Actor Ashutosh Rana after casting his vote at polling booth number 105 in Gadarwara in Narsinghpur, Madhya Pradesh.

Dismissed BSF jawan Tej Bahadur Yadav approaches Supreme Court challenging rejection of his nomination as Samajwadi Party candidate from Varanasi Lok Sabha Constituency. Advocate Prashant Bhushan is appearing for Yadav

Voting percentage till 10 am: Bihar-11.51,

Jammu and Kashmir-1.36%

Madhya Pradesh-13.18%

Rajasthan-14%

Uttar Pradesh- 9.85%

West Bengal-16.56%

Jharkhand-13.46%

Ranjit Paswan arrested on charges of vandalizing an EVM machine at polling booth number 131 in Chhapra.

Union Minister and BJP candidate from Hazaribagh, Jayant Sinha arrives at a polling booth to cast his vote. Sinha is contesting against Congress' Gopal Sahu & CPI's Bhubneshwar Prasad Mehta from the constituency.

Militants Monday lobbed a grenade towards a polling station in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir where polling is underway for the Anantnag Lok Sabha constituency, police said.

A grenade was lobbed towards Rohmoo polling station in Pulwama but there were no reports of any casualties in the the blast, a police official said.

He said security forces have cordoned off the area. This was the first militant attack on a polling station in this Lok Sabha election in Jammu and Kashmir.

BSP Chief Mayawati casts her vote at a polling booth in City Montessori Inter College in Lucknow.

* 51 Lok Sabha constituencies across 7 states headed for polls

* Over 8.75 crore voters to decide fate of 674 candidates

* Over 96,000 polling booths in place for smooth conduct of polls

* Uttar Pradesh has maximum number of polling booths: 28,072

* Jammu and Kashmir has the least number of polling booths: 1,254

* Anantnag Parliamentary Constituency (PC) in Jammu & Kashmir going to polls in Phase III, Phase IV & Phase V, the only such PC in the country.

In West Bengal's Serampore, booth number 216 and 217 at the Chump Sadya Parmayam Vidyalaya polling booth witnessed EVM malfunction and voting has been stopped as a result. Similar issues reported from Howrah's booth number 92.

Voting yet to begin in booth numbers 289/ 291/292 in Howrah, reportedly after glitches in EVMs and VVPATs. Details awaited

Two school buildings designated as polling stations set on fire in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian. Votes in Shopian and Pulwama of Anantnag constituency today, amid massive security

Union Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore and his wife Gayatri Rathore arrive at a polling station in Jaipur to cast their vote for Lok Sabha Elections 2019

Former Union Min Yashwant Sinha & wife Nilima Sinha arrive at a polling booth to cast vote for Lok Sabha Elections 2019

Polling for Phase 5 of Lok Sabha Election begins. 656 candidates are contesting in seven states to choose representatives from 51 seats. States which are going to vote in Phase 5 Lok Sabha Elections are Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bengal and Jammu and Kashmir. The voting time for Phase 5 elections is from 7 am to 6 pm.

Among the prominent candidates for Phase 5 Lok Sabha elections 2019 are Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Union Ministers Rajnath Singh and Smriti Irani, all contesting from Uttar Pradesh. Other key candidates include Union Minister and former Olympian Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Samajwadi Party's Poonam Sinha, who is wife of actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha, and parliamentarian Rajiv Pratap Rudy.