M Ashok Kumar, a policeman from Telangana, guards the road leading to the only polling booth at Pydipalli in West Godavari, Andhra Pradesh.
Laxman Soren and his wife walk across an inlet of the Subarnarekha river in West Bengal.
Shyam Saran Negi, 97, India's first voter, outside a polling booth in Himachal Pradesh.
Kashmiri voters in Baramulla constituency.
Election Commission volunteers guard boxes containing Electronic Voting Machines that were to be set up in Hajipur, Bihar.
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