Voting hours for National polls extended-- 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Darpan News Desk, IANS, 03 Apr, 2014 10:38 AM
Voting hours for the coming Lok Sabha election has been fixed from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., Chief Election Commissioner V.S. Sampath announced Thursday.
Sampath told the media here that this had been done to accommodate the increasing number of voters across the country.
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