Opindia found a press release from 2014 that mentioned that five leaders were added to Margdarshak Mandal which were former Prime Minister late Atal Bihari Vajpayee, PM Narendra Modi, Lalkrishna Advani, Dr Murli Manohar Joshi and Rajnath Singh.
9,13,79,409 electors cast their votes in the first phase of 2019 polls, while 11,00,52,103 votes were cast in the first phase of 2024 polls, Wire claims this is a dip of 1.86 crore votes
As per the voter turnout data, there were 71,14,40,983 total voters in 2019 in the conituencies that are in the first five phases of 2024 out of which 48,47,07,015 exercised their right to vote. That means 68.13% voting. In 2024, there were 76,40,80,337 out of which 50,72,97,288 voters exercised their right to vote. That makes 66.39% voting.
Economic Advisory Council data on population growth used same method for Hindus and Muslims, but Newslaundry wrongly claims that different methods were used
The video of the Lakhimpur Kheri lady who claimed he had voted for SP but got BJP slip instead later clarified she had mistakenly pressed the wrong button.