Guwahati, April 24 -- As the biggest electoral show on the planet began on April 19, where 969 million Indian eligible voters started exercising their franchise in the seven-phase polling conducted by the Election Commission of India (ECI) to elect 543 members to the 18th Lok Sabha for the next five years, the far eastern part of Bharat has recorded an impressing voters' participation.

Thousands of nominees from various national and regional political parties (along with some independent candidates) are contesting in the general elections, where the counting of votes in electronic voting machines is scheduled to take place on June 4 (and results are also expected the same day).

Leaving aside some stray incidents, the first phase of poll...