Dynamite News Milkipur Bypoll: Voting underway in high-profile BJP vs SP battle
Though there are 10 candidates in the fray, the main fight is between SP and BJP. Must follow the story on Dynamite News:
Ayodhya: Voting for the bypoll in Milkipur Assembly constituency in Uttar Pradesh began on Wednesday morning rather at a slow pace, reports Dynamite News correspondent.
The polling started at 7 am and will continue till 5 pm.
While there are 10 candidates in the fray on this Scheduled Castes (SC)-reserved constituency, the main contest is expected to be between Samajwadi Party's Ajit Prasad and the BJP's Chandrabhanu Paswan.
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Total voters
There are total 3,70,829 voters. Around 1.93 lakh male voters, and over 1.78 lakh female voters and eight third-gender people are registered to vote for the bypoll. There are 4,811 first-time voters in the assembly constituency.
The stakes in the bypoll in Milkipur were raised by SP's Awadhesh Prasad surprise win from Faizabad in last year Lok Sabha polls that came just months after the inauguration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya.
There are 255 polling centres and 414 polling stations for the election.
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Tight security
The security has been beefed up for the bypoll.
"Webcasting will be conducted at 210 polling stations and videography at 25 stations. Micro-observers are deployed at 71 polling centres, with nine flying squads, nine static surveillance teams, six video surveillance teams, two super zonal magistrates, four zonal magistrates and 41 sector magistrates. Voting will be conducted with the assistance of civil police, PAC, and paramilitary forces," said a Security Official.
The counting of votes will take place on 8 February.