Repolling was held on Tuesday at three polling centres in Umaria district under Shahdol parliamentary constituency, where the poll process was marred due to technical glitch in electronic voting machines last Thursday. Th repolling began at 0700 hrs in the morning. long queues of voters were seen at the polling stations with most of them being women.
According to official information, a total of 2,365 voters were eligible to exercise their franchise at Devdandi, Khodarganva and Devgavankala polling centres, which fall in the Bandhavgarh Assembly segment. Of that 57.25 per cent voters exercised their voting right. The voting per cent of males was recorded at 57.57 per cent while 56.92 per cent voters of the fairer sex exercised their franchise.
At polling booth number 157 of Devdandi 68.55 voters cast their vote, 54.86 per cent votes were cast at polling booth number 176 of Khodarganva and at polling booth number 185 of Devgavankala it was 48. 33 per cent during the repolling.