Madhya Pradesh Bypolls: Vote casting On Tuesday, 33,000 Police officers On Safety Responsibility
Round 33,000 safety workforce had been deployed in 19 districts. (Representational)
Bhopal:
Vote casting for by-elections to 28 Meeting seats in Madhya Pradesh will probably be held from 7 am to six pm on Tuesday whilst adhering to the COVID-19 restrictions, an reputable mentioned on Monday.
The ultimate hour of vote casting will probably be for COVID-19 sufferers and other people suspected to be affected by the illness, state further leader electoral officer Arun Tomar instructed PTI.
A complete of 355 applicants, together with 12 ministers, are within the fray for bypolls to 28 seats within the state.
Round 33,000 safety workforce had been deployed in 19 districts the place those constituencies fall and all arrangements had been made to carry loose and truthful polls, the reputable mentioned.
He mentioned 250 flying squads, 173 static surveillance groups and 293 police check-posts had been pressed into carrier.
There are general 63.67 lakh electorate within the 28 Meeting constituencies, he mentioned.
As many as 9,361 cubicles had been arrange for other people to workout their franchise and out of those, 3,038 are positioned beneath the ”crucial” class, he added.
Campaigning for the bypolls was once marked by way of acrimonious exchanges between the primary opponents BJP and Congress.
In lots of the seats, there’s an instantaneous battle between the BJP and Congress, whilst in two or 3 seats of Gwalior Chambal area, a triangular contest is at the playing cards within the wake of the BSP’s presence there, political observers mentioned.
Madhya Pradesh Leader Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Union minister Narendra Singh Tomar, BJP Rajya Sabha member Jyotiraditya Scindia, state BJP leader V D Sharma, former state CM Uma Bharti, amongst others, campaigned to drum up fortify for his or her party nominees.
MP Congress president and previous CM Kamal Nath, Chattisgarh Leader Minister Bhupesh Baghel, Congress veteran Digvijaya Singh and senior party chief from Rajasthan Sachin Pilot additionally toured the state to woo the electorate for his or her party applicants.
For the primary time within the historical past of Madhya Pradesh, 28 Meeting seats within the 230-member Space are going to bypolls in a single pass.
Through-elections are being held in 25 seats as sitting Congress MLAs resigned and joined the BJP. They’re now within the fray as BJP applicants.
Within the 3 different seats, the by-election was once necessitated because of the loss of life of the sitting legislators.
A couple of days again, yet another Congress MLA resigned.
The BJP these days has 107 MLAs, whilst the Congress has 87 legislators within the Space.
The counting of votes will happen on November 10.
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