New Delhi, Apr 23 (PTI) These are the top stories from the northern region at 6 pm

These are the top stories from the northern region at 6 pm LUCKNOW ELN61 UP-POLLING-3PM Lucknow: Braving scorching sun, an estimated 47.10 per cent of voters exercised their franchise till 3 pm Tuesday in 10 Lok Sabha seats of Uttar Pradesh amid reports EVM snags at some booths. SRINAGAR ELX22 JK-POLLING-PERCENTAGE Srinagar: Less than five per cent of the 5.30 lakh electorate of Anantnag district in the Anantnag Lok Sabha constituency of Jammu and Kashmir exercised their franchise in the first four hours of polling Tuesday.

DUNGARPUR ELN45 RJ-LD RAHUL Dungarpur (Raj): Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said the BJP government had done injustice in the last five years but he wants to reverse the trend by doing justice in the next five. NEW DELHI ELN70 DL-POLL-NOMINATIONS New Delhi: Several prominent candidates including former chief minister Sheila Dikshit, BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri, Olympic bronze medallist Vijender Singh and cricketer-turned-politician Gautam Gambhir filed their nominations for the May 12 Lok Sabha polls in Delhi on Tuesday, the last day to enter the fray. BADAUN ELX52 UP-MINISTER-LD RAID Badaun (UP): District authorities Tuesday raided a house here after the Samajwadi Party complained that a state minister was violating poll rules and camping in the constituency from where his daughter is contesting. CHANDIGARH ELX2 POLL-PB- SAD- SUKHBIR Chandigarh: The Shiromani Akali Dal Tuesday announced its decision to field party chief Sukhbir Singh Badal from the Ferozepur seat while his wife and Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal has been again nominated from the Bathinda seat. FARRUKHABAD ELX56 UP-SALMAN KHURSHID-BATLA HOUSE Farrukhabad (UP): Congress leader Salman Khurshid has borrowed a popular movie dialogue to call himself UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's "baap" and challenged him to a debate on the 2008 Batla House encounter, preferably at a cowshed.

LUCKNOW ELN43 UP-POLLS-LD-SP Lucknow: Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav Tuesday alleged that EVMs were "malfunctioning or voting for the BJP" across the country and termed it "criminal negligence". CHANDIGARH ELX63 PB-CANDIDATE-CAR Chandigarh: When Ravneet Singh Bittu goes to file his nomination as the Congress candidate from Ludhiana, he will travel in an old Ambassador that belonged to his grandfather and former chief minister Beant Singh, following a family tradition.

NEW DELHI ELN39 DL-VIJENDER SINGH-INTERVIEW New Delhi: A trailblazer inside the boxing ring, Olympic bronze-medallist Vijender Singh says he will draw inspiration from Filipino legend Manny Pacquiao in his political innings which start with the Congress in the ongoing general elections. JODHPUR ELX14 RJ-VAIBHAVGEHLOT-INTERVIEW Jodhpur: Anxious to move out of the rather large shadow of his father, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, Congress' Jodhpur candidate Vaibhav Gehlot says he has come up the ranks and the party gave him a ticket after seeing his work for 15 years. DEHRADUN DES1 UKD-RAMDEV-PRAGYA Dehradun: Yoga guru Ramdev has come out in support of the BJP's Bhopal candidate and Malegaon blast case accused Pragya Singh Thakur, saying it was unfair to subject her to cruelty in jail for nine years on the basis of suspicion. NEW DELHI ELN10 DL-BJP-RAJ New Delhi: BJP MP Udit Raj Tuesday morning said he will resign from the party if denied ticket in the Lok Sabha elections and may contest independently from the North West Delhi parliamentary seat. PTI ASH ASH.