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At 72 % before 6 PM, Haryana set to shatter previous polling records

October 15, 2014

Chandigarh, Oct 15: Haryana was heading towards registering an all-time record high turnout, with over 72 per cent voters having cast their votes shortly before close of polling at 6 PM.haryana polls copy

In 1967, maximum polling of 72.65 per cent had taken place while in 1968 minimum polling of 57.26 per cent was registered.

In 2009 polls, 72.37 per cent polling was recorded.

According to tentative figures available with the Election Department, over 72 per cent of the 1.63 crore voters had cast their vote so far.

"More than 72 per cent voters had cast their votes when the polls were drawing to close. However, the final percentage figure was likely to go up as voters were still inside polling stations and all figures were being compiled," Haryana's Chief Electoral Officer, Shrikant Walgad told media person.

The Election Department officials said that those voters who had entered the polling station by 6 PM will also be allowed to cast their vote.

Close to 6 PM, places including Fatehabad district (78 per cent), Hisar (73 per cent), Jind (75 pc), Kaithal (79 pc), Kurukshetra (78 pc), Mewat (76 pc), Rohtak (70 pc) and Yamunanagar (79 pc) had witnessed healthy voter turnout.

However, at places including Faridabad district (57 per cent), Gurgaon (64 per cent) and Panchkula (66 per cent), the polling was not that high.

Amid tight security, polling commenced in all the 90 assembly seats at 7 AM to decide the fate of 1,351 candidates. Counting of votes will take place on October 19.

Over 1.63 crore voters including over 87 lakh women were eligible to cast their vote in the polls, in which stakes are high for ruling Congress, BJP and INLD.

Similarly, in Vidhan Sabha Elections 1972 in Haryana total percentage of polling was 70.46 per cent.

In 1977 the total polling percentage was 64.6 per, 69.87 in 1982, in 1987 total polling percentage was 71.24 per cent, in 1991, it was 65.86 per cent, 70.54 per cent in 1996, 69.01 per cent in 2000 and 71.96 per cent in 2005.

In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, the voter turnout for all the 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana, where elections were held in April, was registered at 71.86 per cent.

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Ahmedabad, May 12: The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday declared state BJP minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama's election in 2017 as void on grounds of malpractice and manipulation.

Justice Paresh Upadhyay cancelled Bhupendrasinh Chudasama's election in an order passed on a petition filed by Congress candidate Ashwin Rathod, challenging the BJP leader's victory from Dholka constituency by a margin of 327 votes in the 2017 Gujarat Assembly polls.

In his election petition, Ashwin Rathod alleged that Bhupendrasinh Chudasama indulged in "corrupt practice and breach of many of the mandatory instructions of the Election Commission, at various stages of the election process, more particularly at the time of counting of votes".

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The Indian Defence Ministry, which had in its document that China intruded into the Indian territory in eastern Ladakh in early May, on August 6 took down the page which it had uploaded on its website.

According to a report by news channel NDTV, the ministry, in its document, had said the Chinese aggression has been "increasing along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and more particularly in Galwan valley since May 5."

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A nine-judge bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde said that it was not considering review pleas in the Sabarimala case.

“We are not hearing review pleas of Sabarimala case. We are considering issues referred to by a 5-judge bench earlier,” the bench said.

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