Khagaria (Bihar), amid tight security arrangements, re-polling is going on on Friday at two polling centers in Khagaria Lok Sabha seat of Bihar. An officer gave this information.
He said that voting started at booth numbers 182 and 183 falling under Beldau assembly constituency of Khagaria parliamentary constituency at 7 am and will continue till 6 pm.
Re-polling was ordered at these polling stations as voting was disrupted due to EVM vandalism on May 7 during the third phase of the Lok Sabha elections.
Voting was held on Tuesday in five Lok Sabha seats in Bihar, including Khagaria, where Chirag Paswan's Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) is locked in a direct fight with the CPI(M).Notably, residents of Sahraun village of Khagaria under Gogar sub-division had announced that they would boycott the voting to press for the road demand.
On May 7, the day of polling, a group of unruly people stormed two booths and broke electronic voting machines, a senior official in the CEO office said.
Among the five seats in Bihar that went to polls in the third phase of Lok Sabha elections on Tuesday, Khagaria had the least number of voters at 18.40 lakh and the constituency recorded 58.20 percent voting.
Voting in Khagaria, Araria, Jhanjharpur, Supaul and Madhepura on May 7 was largely peaceful, with a provisional turnout of 60 per cent, which is about one per cent less than the turnout in the 2019 general elections.
NDA currently holds all five seats.
The sitting MP from Khagaria, Mehboob Ali Qaiser, who had won the seat twice in a row for the late Ram Vilas Paswan's Lok Janshakti Party, was denied a ticket this time.Ram Vilas Paswan's son Chirag Paswan, whose party is now known as LJP (Ravilas), has fielded Rajesh Verma, leading to Qaiser joining the RJD. Qaiser's son Yusuf Salahuddin is RJD MLA from Simri Bakhtiyarpur under Khagaria Lok Sabha constituency.
He said that voting started at booth numbers 182 and 183 falling under Beldau assembly constituency of Khagaria parliamentary constituency at 7 am and will continue till 6 pm.
Re-polling was ordered at these polling stations as voting was disrupted due to EVM vandalism on May 7 during the third phase of the Lok Sabha elections.
Voting was held on Tuesday in five Lok Sabha seats in Bihar, including Khagaria, where Chirag Paswan's Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) is locked in a direct fight with the CPI(M).Notably, residents of Sahraun village of Khagaria under Gogar sub-division had announced that they would boycott the voting to press for the road demand.
On May 7, the day of polling, a group of unruly people stormed two booths and broke electronic voting machines, a senior official in the CEO office said.
Among the five seats in Bihar that went to polls in the third phase of Lok Sabha elections on Tuesday, Khagaria had the least number of voters at 18.40 lakh and the constituency recorded 58.20 percent voting.
Voting in Khagaria, Araria, Jhanjharpur, Supaul and Madhepura on May 7 was largely peaceful, with a provisional turnout of 60 per cent, which is about one per cent less than the turnout in the 2019 general elections.
NDA currently holds all five seats.
The sitting MP from Khagaria, Mehboob Ali Qaiser, who had won the seat twice in a row for the late Ram Vilas Paswan's Lok Janshakti Party, was denied a ticket this time.Ram Vilas Paswan's son Chirag Paswan, whose party is now known as LJP (Ravilas), has fielded Rajesh Verma, leading to Qaiser joining the RJD. Qaiser's son Yusuf Salahuddin is RJD MLA from Simri Bakhtiyarpur under Khagaria Lok Sabha constituency.
