Bihar Assembly elections | Voting underway for 78 seats in final phase
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Of the full 2.35 voters in the 78 meeting segments, unfold throughout 15 districts of north Bihar, 1.23 are males, 1.12 crore are girls whereas 894 are in the third gender class, in accordance with statistics supplied by the Election Commission
Polling is underway in 78 meeting segments of Bihar in the third and final phase of state elections on Saturday in which 2.35 crore voters are eligible to determine the destiny of 1,204 candidates.
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Casting of votes started at 7 am in any respect 33,782 polling stations the place as many EVM units and VVPAT machines have been put in and paramilitary forces deployed to keep up order, officers stated.
Voting is concurrently happening for the Valmiki Nagar Lok Sabha seat in West Champaran district the place a by-election has been necessitated by the demise of the sitting JD(U) MP Baidyanath Mahto.
Of the full 2.35 voters in the 78 meeting segments, unfold throughout 15 districts of north Bihar, 1.23 are males, 1.12 crore are girls whereas 894 are in the third gender class, in accordance with statistics supplied by the Election Commission.
In addition, re-poll is being held at two polling stations of Hisua meeting section in Nalanda district the place votes had been forged in the second phase on November 3, the Election fee stated.
It stated the re-poll has been necessitated by the EVMS getting broken in a highway accident.
Among the candidates in the fray, 37 belong to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U), 35 to the BJP, whereas 5 are contesting on tickets of junior NDA ally Vikassheel Insaan Party and one from the Hindustani Awam Morcha.
The candidates of the JD(U)-BJP embody the meeting Speaker and 12 members of the state cupboard.
The major opposition RJD is combating 46 seats in the final phase, whereas its ally Congress is in the fray in 25. Ultra-Left outfit CPI(ML), which has joined the RJD-led Grand Alliance together with CPI and CPI(M), is contesting 5 seats in the final phase.
A notable Congress candidate in this phase is Subhashini Yadav (30), veteran socialist chief Sharad Yadav’s daughter who’s making her debut from Bihariganj which falls beneath Madhepura Lok Sabha seat, represented by her father quite a few instances.
Chirag Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party is in the fray on 42 seats, together with Govindganj, which it holds and the place it’s pitted towards the BJP, which it claims to be supporting whereas being against the JD(U).
The final phase of elections can be noteworthy due to the position the Owaisi issue may play.
Headed by fiery Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi, the AIMIM had registered a surprising victory in Kishanganj final 12 months, defeating the Congress candidate whose son’s election to Lok Sabha had necessitated the by-poll.
The AIMIM is in the fray in greater than a dozen seats, principally in the Kosi-Seemanchal area which is densely populated and has a excessive share of Muslim residents.
The NDA hopes that the occasion’s means to chop into Muslim votes will weaken the RJD and assist the JD(U)-BJP mix.
Voting for the primary phase was held on October 28 and for the second phase on November 3. Results will probably be out on November 10.
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