Second round of voting in Indian elections begins

Voters started queueing up in thousands of polling centrers. A total of 194 million people are eligible to vote.

The first phase of polling was conducted April 16.

At least 194.8 million of the country's total 714 million eligible voters can cast their vote in Thursday's balloting that will be supervised by 1 million officials.

The first voting phase 124 constituencies one week ago was marred by Maoist violence across India's central and eastern regions. 17 people including police, soldiers, polling officials and civilians were killed in the violence and some election officials were kidnapped.