Punjab Junction Weekly Newspaper / 05 December 2022
New Delhi,
Moderate polling was recorded till noon in the bypoll 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 bypolls 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.
EC officials said about 19 per cent of the voters exercised their franchise till 11 am in Mainpuri, while Rampur Sadar and Khatauli assembly seats saw 11.3 and 20.7 per cent polling respectively.
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Chief Editor- Jasdeep Singh (National Award Winner)
