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Over 50% voter turnout in Assam Assembly polls till 2 pm Last Updated : 27 Mar 2021 03:10:21 PM IST Over 50 per cent voters have cast their ballots till 2 p.m. on Saturday in the first phase of the Assam Assembly polls which is underway amid heavy security in 47 constituencies, according to election officials.
Except some Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) glitches no major incidents reported so far from any of the poll bound Assembly segments.Saturday's voting is being held in the Assamese heartland comprising the south and north banks of the Brahmaputra river.After casting his vote at Sahitya Sabha Bhavan in Dibrugarh, Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, who is contesting from Majuli, told the media that that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would get more than 100 seats in the 126-member Assembly.The first phase of polling in the Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled state will decide the fate of 264 candidates.Besides Sonowal, the other prominent faces in the fray are state Assembly Speaker Hitendra Nath Goswami (Jorhat), state Congress chief Ripun Bora (Gohpur), Asom Gana Parishad chief Atul Bora (Bokakhat), Congress Legislature Party leader Debabrata Saikia (Nazira), jailed Raijor Dal President Akhil Gogoi (Sivasagar) and Assam Jatiya Parishad President Lurinjyoti Gogoi (Duliajan).At least 23 female aspirants are also contesting these elections.Voting began across 11,537 polling stations mostly covering the eastern Assam's 12 districts at 7 a.m.The balloting will continue till 6 p.m as the Election Commission extended the time by an hour in view of the Covid-19 induced situations.A total of 8,109,815 voters, including 4,032,481 females, are eligible to cast their ballots.Covid-19 protocols for the voters, including social distancing and thermal screening, are being maintained.Election officials said that to avoid crowding, the number of voters for every booth has been brought down to a maximum of 1,000.As a result, the number of polling booths has been augmented by 34.71 per cent to 33,530 from 24,890 in 2016.To avoid direct contact with the EVM, every elector is being given a hand glove.In the 2016 elections, the ruling BJP-led alliance secured 35 of the 47 seats, while the Congress won nine and the remaining three seats by other parties.According to the election officials, over 30,000 Central Armed Police Forces along with thousands of state security forces have been deployed to maintain law and order during this phase.The officials said that to maintain social distancing and other Covid-19 protocols and due to technical snags of the EVMs in some polling stations, the casting of votes caused little slow.No untoward incident has been reported so far from any of the 12 districts where balloting is underway.In a unique gesture, the election officials donated saplings and Assam's traditional 'gamocha' to the aged, women and otherwise abled voters in the model polling stations, which were decorated with colourful balloons.The 126-member Assam Assembly will go to the polls in three phases.The other two phases will be held on April 1 (39 seats) and April 6 (40 seats).Results will be declared on May 2.IANS Guawahti For Latest Updates Please-
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