By-polls in 5 States: SP, BJP trade charges in Mainpuri
| Date :06-Dec-2022 |
NEW DELHI,
MODERATE polling was recorded till evening in the by-poll to six Assembly constituencies in five States and the Mainpuri parliamentary seat in Uttar Pradesh on Monday amid complaints of glitches in EVMs and allegations by the Samajwadi Party that the police and administration were preventing people from casting vote.
Rampur Sadar and Khatauli in Uttar Pradesh, Padampur in Odisha, Sardarshahar in Rajasthan, Kurhani in Bihar and Bhanupratappur in Chhattisgarh are the Assembly seats where the by-polls are being held. All eyes are on the Mainpuri seat which was represented by Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav five times in the past. The election is a battle of prestige for Akhilesh Yadav whose wife Dimple Yadav is contesting the polls. She is pitted against BJP’s Raghuraj Singh Shakya.
UP BY-POLLS: Polling was sluggish in Rampur Sadar with the Assembly segment, earlier held by Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan, registering around 33.94 per cent turnout in the by-election till 5 pm on Monday. Mainpuri parliamentary constituency, which fell vacant after the death of Samajwadi party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav, registered 51.89 per cent voting. Khatauli Assembly segment in Muzaffarnagar recorded 54.50 per cent polling. The BJP and Samajwadi Party, the two main contenders, have accused each other of disrupting the electoral process. Delegations of both parties met Chief Electoral Officer Ajay Kumar Shukla alleging rigging.
CHHATTISGARH BY-POLL: A voter turnout of 64.86 per cent was recorded on Monday in the by-poll to Bhanupratappur Assembly constituency in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district, a poll official here said. The figure is provisional as reports from some polling booths located in sensitive locations were yet to be received, he said.
BIHAR BY-POLL: Nearly 58 per cent voters exercised their franchise on Monday in the by-poll to Kurhani Assembly segment of Bihar, where CM Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) and the BJP have locked horns for the first time since their nasty break-up four months ago.
RAJASTHAN BY-POLL: Nearly 70 per cent voting was registered till 5.30 pm on Monday in the by-election to the Sardarshahar assembly seat in Rajasthan’s Churu district, an official said.
ODISHA BY-POLL: More than 80 per cent of 2.57 lakh voters on Monday exercised their franchise till 6 pm in the by-poll to Odisha’s Padampur Assembly constituency amid tight security, an Election Commission official said.
The counting will be on December 8.