About 4.6 million voters will decide the political fate of 50 candidates for three lok Sabha seats — Rajnandgaon, Mahasamund and Kanker — in the second phase of polling on Thursday in Chhattisgarh.
Chief Electoral Officer (Chhattisgarh) Sunil Kujur informed that 6,114 polling centres have been set up in these three seats.
As many as 2,211 polling centres have been set up in Rajnandgaon lok Sabha area, 1,937 and 1,781 voting centres have been set up in Mahasamund and Kanker seats respectively. These three seats are also considered Naxal infested areas and thousands of para-military troopers have been deployed for peaceful polling on Thursday.
Kujur said, “In Kanker lok Sabha constituency, the voting will start in Sihawa, Antagarh, Bhanupratappur, Kanker, and Keshkal assembly areas at 7 am and conclude at 3 pm.”
However, in Dondi lohara Assembly area the voting will start at 7 am and will conclude at 4 pm. In Gundardehi and Sanjari Balod Assembly area, voting will start at 7 am and conclude at 6 pm.
Similarly, in seven Assembly area in Rajnandgaon lok Sabha constituency, such as Pandaria, Kawardha, Khairagarh, Dongargarh, Rajnandgaon, Dongargaon, and Khujji, the polling will take place between 7 am to six p.m. Where as in Mohla-Manpur assembly area voting will start at 7 am and conclude at 3 pm.
In Bindra Nawagarh Assembly area under Mahasamund lok Sabha constituency, polling will start at 7 am and continue until 3 pm. In remaining area the polling will start at 7 am and conclude at 6 pm.
In Rajnandgaon lok Sabha constituency, this time 15 lakh 80 thousand voters will exercise their franchise. Out of it the number of the male voters is 7.92 lakh where as number of female voters is 7.88 lakh.
Similarly, in Mahasamund lok Sabha constituency, more than 15 lakh voters and in Kanker 14 lakh voters are eligible to exercise their franchise.