Fate of eight candidates has been sealed in the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), as the bypolls for the lone Kairana Assembly seat passed off peacefully amidst tight security on Wednesday.
long queues of both male and female voters were seen soon after the polling kicked off at 7am and a total of record 68 per cent of voting has been reported till completion of the voting at 6pm on Wednesday. Altogether 2,82,130 voters including 1,26,194 women are eligible to exercise their votes in the by-poll which was held at 275 polling booths.
According to official communiqué of the Chief Electoral Officer’s camp released in the evening, a total of 1.91 voters used their right of franchise on Wednesday. They claimed that only one EVM received some technical snag in the morning but it was immediately replaced by new one. No other incident has been reported from anywhere.
Amongst the eight candidates whose fate has been sealed, the prominent nominees are BJP’s Anil Kumar Chauhan, Congress nominee Arshad Khan and Samajwadi Party candidate Nahid Hasan. Counting of votes would be held on October 19.