A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the foreign minister, and other officials reportedly crashed in the mountainous northwest of Iran on Sunday, prompting a large-scale rescue operation in a foggy forest. The public was urged to pray for their safety. As of Monday morning, over 12 hours after the suspected crash, Raisi and the other passengers were still missing. Turkish drone footage suggested the helicopter went down in the mountains, and rescuers hurried to the crash site.
The key candidates in the fray include Rahul Gandhi (Rae Bareli, UP), Smriti Irani (Amethi, UP), Rajnath Singh (Lucknow, UP), Karan Bhushan Singh (Kaiserganj, UP, Rohini Acharya (Saran, Bihar), Chirag Paswan (Hajipur, Bihar),Piyush Goyal (Mumbai North), Ujjwal Nikam (Mumbai North-Central) and Omar Abdullah (Baramulla, Jammu and Kashmir).
Apart from 49 Lok Sabha seats, 35 assembly constituencies in Odisha are also voting today. Over 8.95 crore voters including 4.69 crore men and 4.26 crore women, and 5,409 third gender electors are eligible to vote in the fifth phase today. There are over 7.81 lakh registered 85+ years old, 24,792 voters above 100 years old, too
Around 9.47 lakh polling officials have been deployed at 94,732 polling stations today. Among the Lok Sabha seats voting in phase 5 today, the BJP had won 32 seats in 2019 while its allies had won 7 seats. The saffron party bagged a vote share of more than 40 per cent in at least 30 seats.
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