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.
The direction was issued by Kumar at a meeting chaired by him with CS, DGP and other top officials of Maharashtra, Jharkhand and their border states to assess the law-and-order situation for the ongoing Assembly elections in both the states, sources said.
Questioning Congress candidate for Wayanad Lok Sabha by-election Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's recently-filed election affidavit, the BJP on Saturday alleged that the filed affidavit of the grand old party leader doesn't disclose all the required information.
Ahead of the forthcoming Assembly elections in Jharkhand, Congress leader Ajoy Kumar has written a letter to the Election Commission of India (ECI), alleging that Odisha Governor Raghubar Das was campaigning for his daughter-in-law Purnima Das.
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The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday appointed Ajay Kumar Singh as the new Director General of Police (DGP) of Jharkhand.
