Hyderabad: Padma Vibhushan awardee Chiranjeevi cast his vote at a polling booth in Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad on Monday. Voting for the fourth phase of Lok Sabha elections is going on.

Chiranjeevi along with his wife Surekha Konidela reached the designated polling booth in Hyderabad to get their fingers inked.

#Watch , Telangana: Film star Chiranjeevi Konidela and his family arrive to cast their vote at a polling booth in Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad.#LokSabhaElections2024 pic.twitter.com/HrnDGIWdjU– ANI (@ANI) 13 May 2024

Voting began at 7 am on Monday and will continue till 6 pm in all Lok Sabha constituencies as well as assembly seats. It is being conducted in 96 parliamentary constituencies.

Voting for all 175 seats in the Andhra Pradesh State Assembly and 28 seats in the Odisha State Assembly also began along with the Lok Sabha elections.

Of the 96 Lok Sabha seats, 25 are from Andhra Pradesh, 17 from Telangana, 13 from Uttar Pradesh, 11 from Maharashtra, eight each from Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal, five from Bihar, four each from Jharkhand and Odisha and one from Jammu. And Kashmir.

According to the election body, a total of 4,264 nominations were filed for 96 parliamentary constituencies.

The fourth phase will see important elections in various constituencies with leaders like AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, West Bengal Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, TMC leader Mahua Moitra, BJP leader Giriraj Singh, JDU’s Rajeev Ranjan Singh (Lalan Singh) among others. The competition is being watched. ), TMC leaders Shatrughan Sinha and Yusuf Pathan are in the fray.