Voting for the 40-seat Mizoram Meeting and 20 out of 90 Meeting constituencies in Chhattisgarh started on Tuesday.
Mizoram has a complete of 8,56,868 registered voters unfold throughout 1,276 polling stations. The voting course of within the state started at 7 am.
The Mizo Nationwide Entrance, which is a part of the Bharatiya Janata Celebration-led Nationwide Democratic Alliance, had gained 26 out of 40 Meeting seats within the 2018 polls. The Congress had secured 5 seats whereas the BJP gained a single seat.
This time, the state is predicted to witness a triangular contest among the many Mizo Nationwide Entrance, the Zoram Folks’s Motion and the Indian Nationwide Congress.
A complete of 174 candidates are contesting the polls. The Mizo Nationwide Entrance, the Congress and Zoram Folks’s Motion are preventing from all 40 constituencies. The BJP, the Aam Aadmi Celebration and independents are contesting 23 seats, 4 and 27, respectively.
Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga forged his vote at one of many polling stations in Aizawl on Tuesday morning.
#WATCH | Chief Minister of Mizoram Zoramthanga casts his vote for the Mizoram Meeting Elections 2023 at 19-Aizawl Venglai-I YMA Corridor polling station beneath Aizawl North-II meeting constituency. pic.twitter.com/w3MdGFLWme
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In the meantime, in Chhattisgarh, the Congress is looking for to fend off the problem from the BJP and retain energy. Out of the 20 seats the place polling is going down on Tuesday, the Congress had gained 19 within the final elections. There are 223 candidates contesting the polls from these 19 seats.
In 10 of the 20 constituencies, the polling started at 7 am, whereas voting within the remaining 10 seats started at 8 am, in accordance with PTI. There are 40,78,681 registered voters within the first part of the Chhattisgarh elections.
On Tuesday, a Central Police Reserve Power soldier was injured in an Improvised Explosive System blast triggered by Maoists within the Tondamarka space of Sukma district on Tuesday, Superintendent of Police Kiran Chavan informed ANI. A day earlier than the primary part of polling, one other Improvised Explosive System blast in Kanker district had injured a Border Safety Power constable and two polling group members.
VIDEO | Chhattisgarh Election 2023: BJP candidate Lata Usendi from Kondagaon Meeting constituency casts her vote. #ChhattisgarhElections2023 #AssemblyElectionsWithPTI pic.twitter.com/NWDuSBOHpP
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Forward of the polls in Chhattisgarh, the Congress and the BJP tried to outdo one another with their paddy procurement costs for farmers.
On Friday, the BJP had promised that it’ll procure paddy at Rs 3,100 per quintal if it involves energy within the state within the upcoming Meeting election. The Congress authorities within the state at present purchases the crop at Rs 2,600 per quintal, a worth that’s already the best within the nation.
Nevertheless, after the saffron celebration upped the ante, the Congress promised that farmers would get Rs 3,200 for each quintal of paddy. The quantity will embrace an enter subsidy beneath the Rajiv Gandhi Kisan Nyay Yojana, the manifesto stated.
The BJP, in the meantime, has urged Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel to reply to allegations by the Enforcement Directorate that he accepted bribes of at the very least Rs 508 crore from unlawful betting web site Mahadev E-book. The allegations got here after the Enforcement Directorate carried out raids within the state and arrested two individuals.
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