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.
Political parties in Uttar Pradesh will now get one week's more time more for campaigning in the 9 assembly bye-elections after the Election Commission on Monday extended the date of polling to November 20 from the existing November 13.
The Election Commission of India has approved the Jharkhand government's proposal to appoint Alka Tiwari as the Chief Secretary of the state.
According to sources in the office of the state chief electoral officer (CEO), under the ECI, the Commission will deploy 108 companies of central forces for bypolls this time. Earlier, the ECI had decided to send 89 companies to the Central Armed Police Force.
Hitting out at the Congress after the Election Commission of India (ECI) rejected the grand old party's allegation about irregularities in recently concluded Haryana Assembly elections
He said Congress always takes the support of lies as they never get votes based on work.
