Khagaria/Araria/Madhepura: About 10.78 per cent of the more than 98 lakh voters exercised their franchise in the five Lok Sabha constituencies of Bihar till 9 am on Tuesday, an election official said.
Voting on Araria, Jhanjharpur, Supaul, Madhepura and Khagaria seats began at 7 am amid tight security and will continue till 6 pm, he said.
Till 9 am, Supaul recorded the highest turnout of 11.41 per cent, followed by Arari (10.97), Madhepura (10.71), and Khagaria and Jhanjharpu at 10.41 per cent each.
The electoral fate of 54 candidates will be decided in the third phase of voting in Bihar.
The BJP holds Araria, where the main challenge to sitting MP Pradeep Singh's bid to retain the seat has come from RJD's Shahnawaz, whose late father and former Union minister Taslimuddin defeated the saffron party leader in 2014, riding the Modi wave. This seat was snatched away.,
In Madhepura and Supaul also, RJD is in a direct fight with JDU.
In Madhepura, from where RJD chief Lalu Prasad himself won twice, JD(U) M Dinesh Chandra Yadav's bid to capture the seat is being challenged by Kuma Chandradeep, who teaches English at a college in Patna. , but it also happens. Son of late Ramendra Kumar Yadav, who was a member of both houses of Parliament.
In nearby Supaul, the RJD has fielded its MLA Chandrahas Chaupal from one of the two reserved assembly constituencies falling in the Lok Sabha constituency.
Jhanjharpur has gone to the Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP), headed by former state minister Mukesh Sahni, who joined the grand alliance late and got three seats from the RJD's quota of 26, in a state where the total number is 40. .Khagaria is a seat where the contest is mainly between two debutants. Sitting MP Mehboob Ali Qaiser, who won the seat for the Lok Janshakti Party of late Ram Vilas Paswan twice in a row, has been refused a ticket by his son Chirag.
Chirag, whose party is now known as LJP (Ram Vilas), has fielded his confidant Rajesh Verma, leading to Qaiser joining the RJD. Kaiser's son Yusuf Salauddin is RJD MLA from Simri Bakhtiyarpur under Khagaria.
Voting on Araria, Jhanjharpur, Supaul, Madhepura and Khagaria seats began at 7 am amid tight security and will continue till 6 pm, he said.
Till 9 am, Supaul recorded the highest turnout of 11.41 per cent, followed by Arari (10.97), Madhepura (10.71), and Khagaria and Jhanjharpu at 10.41 per cent each.
The electoral fate of 54 candidates will be decided in the third phase of voting in Bihar.
The BJP holds Araria, where the main challenge to sitting MP Pradeep Singh's bid to retain the seat has come from RJD's Shahnawaz, whose late father and former Union minister Taslimuddin defeated the saffron party leader in 2014, riding the Modi wave. This seat was snatched away.,
In Madhepura and Supaul also, RJD is in a direct fight with JDU.
In Madhepura, from where RJD chief Lalu Prasad himself won twice, JD(U) M Dinesh Chandra Yadav's bid to capture the seat is being challenged by Kuma Chandradeep, who teaches English at a college in Patna. , but it also happens. Son of late Ramendra Kumar Yadav, who was a member of both houses of Parliament.
In nearby Supaul, the RJD has fielded its MLA Chandrahas Chaupal from one of the two reserved assembly constituencies falling in the Lok Sabha constituency.
Jhanjharpur has gone to the Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP), headed by former state minister Mukesh Sahni, who joined the grand alliance late and got three seats from the RJD's quota of 26, in a state where the total number is 40. .Khagaria is a seat where the contest is mainly between two debutants. Sitting MP Mehboob Ali Qaiser, who won the seat for the Lok Janshakti Party of late Ram Vilas Paswan twice in a row, has been refused a ticket by his son Chirag.
Chirag, whose party is now known as LJP (Ram Vilas), has fielded his confidant Rajesh Verma, leading to Qaiser joining the RJD. Kaiser's son Yusuf Salauddin is RJD MLA from Simri Bakhtiyarpur under Khagaria.
