Odisha: Voting Underway in Dhamnagar By-poll
Bhubaneswar: Voting for the by-election to Dhamnagar Assembly constituency in Odisha’s Bhadrak district began today from 7 a.m. and will continue till 6.30 p.m.. As many as 2,38,417 voters are eligible to exercise their franchise in the poll, of which 1,23,038 are male; 1,15,346 female and 33 trans-genders. The election is being held in 252 [...]
Bhubaneswar: Voting for the by-election to Dhamnagar Assembly constituency in Odisha’s Bhadrak district began today from 7 a.m. and will continue till 6.30 p.m..
As many as 2,38,417 voters are eligible to exercise their franchise in the poll, of which 1,23,038 are male; 1,15,346 female and 33 trans-genders.
The election is being held in 252 booths. As many as 110 booths have been identified as sensitive. Special arrangements have been made for such booths.
In 126 booths, web casting is being done while 25 micro observers have been deployed and extra CAPF deployment will be done in appropriate locations.
A total of 997 police personnel and four companies of CAPF are being deployed for the poll.
As many as five candidates have remained in fray for the by-poll.
Apart from BJD’s Abanti Das, BJP’s Suryabanshi Suraj and Congress’ Baba Harekrushna Sethi, two independent candidates — Raju Das and Pabitra Mohan Das are fighting for the MLA seat fell vacant following the demise of BJP MLA Bishnu Sethi.
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