LS Polls 2019: Ganguly, Sidhu cast vote in the last phase of general elections

Voting is underway in all 13 seats in Punjab and an equal number of seats in Uttar Pradesh, nine in West Bengal, eight seats each in Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, four in Himachal Pradesh, three in Jharkhand and the lone seat Chandigarh

Polling began on Sunday morning 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. Voting is underway in all 13 seats in Punjab and an equal number of seats in Uttar Pradesh, nine in West Bengal, eight seats each in Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, four in Himachal Pradesh, three in Jharkhand and the lone seat Chandigarh. Former Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly, along with his family today cast vote in West Bengal's Behala. Apart from Ganguly, another former cricketer, Punjab Minister and Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu and his wife Navjot Kaur Sidhu, cast their votes at booth number-134 in Amritsar.

Punjab Minister and Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu and his wife Navjot Kaur Sidhu, cast their votes at booth number-134 in Amritsar. #LokSabhaElections2019 #Phase7 #FinalPhase pic.twitter.com/6QZWqgqk0I

— ANI (@ANI) May 19, 2019

Former India veteran spinner Harbhajan Singh too casts his vote at a polling booth in Jalandhar. The star spinner took to Twitter to encourage voters to use their right to vote as he wrote,"I did my duty for the nation and #GotInked. Requesting you all,Please go out and cast your vote."

I did my duty for the nation and #GotInked. Requesting you all,Please go out and cast your vote. @ECISVEEP 👆🙏 pic.twitter.com/fptDGSkyR5

— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh) May 19, 2019

It is after 15 years that any Prime Minister is contesting Lok Sabha elections. The last PM who contested election was Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 2004 from Lucknow (Manmohan Singh did not contest Lok Sabha elections). PM Modi is also the eighth PM to be re-contesting from the same seat.