Preliminary reports coming from booths suggested 56% of voting in Palamu which is likely to shoot p by one or two more percent said the returning officer cum DC Palamu KN Jha. Jha said. However, the Chief Elctoral officer of Jharkhand announced that Palamu recorded 59.3 per cent polling.
In the 2009 lok sabha election here in Palamu it was only 49% voting.
The latehar administration set up a motley of well decorated polling booths where the voters were accorded red carpet welcome and flowers to relax over a glass of filtered water and air cooler to keep them cool before voting said the SP latehar Michael S Raj.
The DIG police Palamu Ravikant Dhan speaking to pioneer said till the end of the voting at 4 in the evening today there was on report of any untoward incident in the Palamu police range. The DIG added some misinformation was telecast by a news channel today which bore no truck with the reality. The DIG agreed he was told of rumours floating here and there.
The DIG conceded that Maoists opened fire in air at laat village last night only to create an atmosphere of fear which the voters refused to accept.
Voters of relocated booths refused to cast votes here in this district. Goindee voters were asked to vote at Taal as Goindee booths ( two in numbers) were relocated at Taal. The voters did not go there in any number.
The returning officer Palamu K N Jha who is the DC Palamu said Goindee matter has come to his notice adding there was suitable arrangement for their transportation by government vehicles which these voters refused to take advantage of.
Report said voters of Obra and Bishaypur too abstained from voting citing long distance relocation of their booths. Obra voters were to cast votes at Belhara which they did not do. Similarly Bishaypur voters were to cast votes at Cherain which they did not do so.
First time voters did not miss to show their indelible ink mark on their fingers here.Aftab showed his
finger so showed Neha lata a fresher voter.
BJP candidate V D Ram accused Hussainabad RJD MlA Sanjay Singh Yadav of causing troubles to BJP workers as V D Ram alleged the MlA’s body guards thrashed the BJP workers. The version of the RJd MlA Yadav could not be taken for poor cell phone connectivity. In Palamu’s Kudaga booth cops were questioned by voters for their partisan attitude towars one particular camdidate of a national party.
TMC candidate Kameshwar Baitha was of seen in Daltonganj so was Manoj Kumar of RJD who too remained off the town Daltonganj putting all thrust in the rural area polling booths as rural voters showed more enthusiasm than the town’s ones.