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Defying a sunny morning, voters in Mongoldoi are waiting in long queues in front of the polling booths to exercise their franchise in the third and final phase of Lok Sabha polls on Thursday.Altogether 15,07,368 voters are expected to exercise their franchise in 1852 polling booths to decide the fate of 12 candidates.Polling is underway in peaceful note and it will continue till 5 in the evening.BJP candidate and sitting MP Ramen Deka is pitted against his Congress rival Kirip Chaliha while AGP candidate and former Congress MP Madhab Rajbanshi has a considerable supporters who is contesting as AGP candidate.
Brisk polling is what undergoing in Barpeta constituency along with five others in the last and third phase of General elections on Thursday.Heavy turn out of voters is expected in this crucial constituency where 14,24,638 voters are expected to exercise their franchise in 1906 booths which will continue till 5 in the evening.Sitting MP and Congress candidate Ismile Hussain is facing a keen contest with AIUDF candidate Sirajuddin Ajmal while BJP candidate Chandra Mohan Patowary and his AGP rival and former party colleague Phani Bhushan Chaudhury have been enjoying no less popularity and support. Counting will take place on May 16.
Amid tight security, voting is going on in Dhubri on Thursday.Polling is underway in 1940 booths from 7 in the morning where 15,48, 849 electorates will decide the fate of 15 candidates.Guarded by security forces, voters waiting in huge queues in front of the booths to exercise their franchise. Pollings are set to end by 5 in the evening. The contest is expected to be between AIUDF Chief and sitting MP Badruddin Ajmal, Congress candidate Wazed Ali Choudhury and BJP's Debamoy Sanyal. Counting will take place on May 16.
Voting is underway in Guwahati Lok Sabha constituency with a peaceful note on Thursday. The turn out is expected to be huge in view of the rush of voters in front of the polling booths.Altogether19, 21,374 electorates are expected to cast their votes in 2345 booths to elect the Lok Sabha member out of 18 candidates in the fray.The voting will continue till 5 in the evening. In some places, the polling officials would find it difficult to complete the process even by 5 in the evening in view of the huge line of voters who have been waiting hours after hours to exercise their franchise.It will be a fight between sitting BJP MP Bijoya Chakraborty and Congress candidate Manas Bora. AGP’s...
A brisk polling is underway in the third and final phase of the Lok Sabha elections on Thursday.Around 94,37,731 electors are set to decide the fate of 74 candidates in Kokrajhar, Guwahati, Barpeta, Nagaon, Dhubri and Mangaldoi.Altogether 1,994 polling stations are teeming with voters who are waiting in queues to exercise their franchise even before the polling started at 7 in the morning.The authorities have deployed 47,976 polling personnel in this phase who will conduct polling till 5 in the evening.Guwahati has maximum 18 candidates whereas Kokrajhar has minimum 6 candidates. On the other hand, Guwahati has maximum number of 19,21,374 electors, whereas Barpeta has minimum number of 14,...
There seems to be no respite from the soaring mercury level on Thursday much to the utter disappointment of poll candidates in six Lok Sabha constituencies where polling is underway.The Regional Meteorology Centre in Guwahati has blamed it all on the dry westerly winds that blows from the Gangetic plains in the lower atmosphere. The weathermen have further ruled out any possibility of rainfall in the next couple of days.But the poll candidates are worried a lot. The rising mercury level is likely to be a dampener for them which could force the voters to remain confined to their houses.The frequent power cuts another major cause of concern for the candidate where the ruling party is likely...
Tension starts escalating in Baska a day before the Lok Sabha polling on Thursday.Several persons sustained injury when policemen guarding a polling booth in Bagulamari area resorted to firing to disperse a group of miscreants who were trying to capture the booth.The incident took place at 7 in the evening when a group of armed miscreants were spotted trying to sneak into the booth.Policemen who were standing at the booth premises tried to prevent them from entering into it where the shoot out took place. The injury of the polling officials policemen was minor.
Chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday tendered apology before that people admitting his failure to ensure uninterrupted power supply in the time of scorching heat. Talking to reporters in Guwahati, Gogoi said that the crisis has erupted after ONGC’s failure to ensure adequate gas to run the thermal power. His candid admission took place when BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi in huge display in the local dailies dared Gogoi to come clean on the poor power scenario in the state.
The pre poll heat and dust seems to have touched new low. That too a day after electioneering came to an end.Nagaon BJP candidate Rajen Gohain on Wednesday moved the Election Commission against Rockybul Hussain. Gohain and his family members have alleged that the forest minister is on a move to malign their image citing a wrong incident in wrong context.His family members on Wednesday dared Hussain to substantiate his allegations he made publicly failing which the Congress leader would be in trouble. Hussian on Tuesday revealed that there was a time when Gohain was rescued from the Gauhati University campus under an objectionable circumstances forcing the Gohains to take on the...
Altogether six NDFB-S militants have surrendered before the authorities in Sonitpur district on Wednesday.All they formally surrendered before superintendent of police Sangyukta Parashar at her office in the morning.They further deposited hand grenades along with some other incriminating materials.Notably, NDFB-S militants have been unleashing a reign of terror in the district bordering Arunachal Pradesh for the last couple of years in the form of explosion, kidnapping, extortion. Three months back they killed additional superintendent of police Guljhar Ahmed at an ambush.
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