UP records 49.3% polling in by-elections; exit polls predict BJP to win maximum seats
Minor reports of violence were received from Meerapur, Sismau, and Kundarki assembly segments, but by and large, the voting was peaceful, EC officials claimed.
Minor reports of violence were received from Meerapur, Sismau, and Kundarki assembly segments, but by and large, the voting was peaceful, EC officials claimed.
Among the nine assembly constituencies that went for by poll on Wednesday, Ghaziabad recorded the lowest voter turnout at 33.30 percent, as per the data issued by the Election Commission.
The Kedarnath assembly bypoll in Uttarakhand recorded around 57 per cent voting by 5 pm on Wednesday even as the Election Commission of India was yet to announce final figures with likely margin of around 3 per cent increase.
The voter turnout in Maharashtra's 288 Assembly constituencies till 9 a.m. was reported at 6.61 per cent, said officials here on Wednesday after the polling started at 7 a.m.
In a separate letter issued to Nadda and Kharge, the poll panel recalled its 22nd May advisory directing the BJP, Congress and their star campaigners to refrain from making any statement which is prohibited in Clause (1) of general conduct of MCC.
These speeches are communal and can create tension among the religious communities, Trinamul leaders said.
According to the ‘X’ handle of Collector, Hyderabad “A case is registered in Malakpet Police Station against Smt Madhavi Latha, contesting candidate, BJP under sections 17C, 186, 505(1)(c) of IPC and Section 132 of the Representation of the People Act,
The Election Commission has designated a total of eleven hundred and sixty five booths spread over nine assembly constituencies of West Burdwan district as critical.
A summer vacation bench of the Madras High Court comprising Justices A.D. Jagadish Chandira and R. Kalaimathi will hear the writ petition.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) in a letter to Chief Electoral Officer, NCT of Delhi, on Tuesday said it has been receiving representations from various stakeholders, including political parties, regarding election hoardings at authorised/unauthorised sites in the NCT of Delhi.
