Campaigning for the lone assembly by-election to Kairana seat in west Uttar Pradesh will end on Monday evening where polling is scheduled on October 15.
Fate of 8 candidates would be decided in the bypolls with prominent BJP’s Anil Kumar Chauhan, Congress nominee Arshad Khan and Samajwadi Party candidate Nahid Hasan are in the fray.
The campaigning in the bypolls was lacklustre with no prominent leaders of any political party came to address election meetings expect for BJP UP president laxmikant Bajpai.
All the prominent candidates are local, with Congress and SP candidates are related to each other. Altogether 282130 voters including 126194 females would cast their votes in the bypolls at 275 polling booths.
Counting of votes of the bypolls would be held on October 19. A total of 12 companies of paramilitary force along with one thousand civil policemen will be deployed on the polling day which will held from 0700 hours to 1800 hours.
Authorities have set up 16 check-posts at the Haryana-Uttar Pradesh border for sealing it from Monday evening for smooth and fair conduct of elections, officials said.
Security has been tightened along the border since assembly polls in Haryana will be conducted on the same day. Kairana constituency is divided in 42 sectors and a magistrate and a police officer has been posted in each of them. The seat fell vacant after BJP member Hukum Singh was elected to the lok Sabha from Kairana parliamentary seat.