Assembly Elections 2014 LIVE : Voting under way for Maharashtra and Haryana

 72.1 % votes cast in Haryana till 6:00 pm

55% votes cast in Maharashtra till 5:00 pm

12:18 pm: Polling picks up in Haryana, over 31 per cent votes registered in Haryana till noon. Highest turnout seen in Kurukshetra with 37.6 per cent polling. Faridabad records 25.7 per cent voting.

12 noon: Over 25 per cent of the 1.63 crore eligible voters have exercised their franchise in Haryana till 11 am. Polling was going on at a brisk pace at places including Ambala, Bhiwani, Fatehabad, Hisar and Yamunanagar while it was comparatively slow at places like Rewari, election officials said.

11:46 am: Around 17 per cent people exercise their franchise in Maharashtra till 11 am.

The estimated polling in some districts was: Aurangabad 10 per cent, Beed 9, Solapur 8, Kolhapur 10, Hingoli 8.5, Osmanabad 9, Nashik 7, and Parbhani 7.5 per cent. 

10:49 am: Maharashtra BJP President Devendra Fadnavis casts his vote, says BJP will form government in state.
10:44 am: Clashes break out between BJP and INLD supporters in Haryana's Sirsa. Two people have been injured in the firing.
10:41 am: HDFC Chairman Deepak Parekh who could not cast his vote in the Lok Sabha elections cast his vote for the Assembly polls at a booth in Mumbai. 

10:19 am: In first few hours, Maharashtra's Bhandara districts records 5% voting, Pune 8%, Vardha 3%, Gondia 4%, Sangli 8%, Aurangabad 10% and Usmanabad 8.5%.

10:15 am: I&N Minister Javadekar says people are voting for good governance and decisive government which Modi ji has offered. He expresses confidence in BJP winning a majority in Maharashtra.