Saturday, November 19 2005 11:25 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Mumbai: Polling for Mumbai North-West Lok Sabha constituency, where late filmstar-turned-politician Sunil Dutt's daughter Priya Dutt of Congress takes on Shiv Sena leader Madhukar Sarpotdar, began this morning (Nov 19, 2005) amidst tight security.

Over 16 lakh voters are eligible to cast their franchise in the by-elections necessitated by the death of Sunil Dutt on May 25.

There was a tight security at all 1480 polling stations in the constituency, that spreads from Bandra to Versova and has almost entire Bollywood and several prominent people like the Shiv Sena chief, Bal Thackeray, as the voters.