Meeting polls: Counting of votes begins in Delhi, Milkipur, Tamil Nadu
There are 46 candidates, together with 44 independents, within the fray and the competition is just between the ruling DMK’s V.C. Chandirakumar and Tamil nationalist get together, Naam Tamizhar Katchi’s (NTK) M Okay Seethalakshmi.
Opposition events, together with the primary opposition AIADMK, have boycotted the polls.
The bypoll was necessitated as a result of demise of Congress MLA EVKS Elangovan in 2024.
In Milkipur, election officers mentioned the counting of votes solid by means of digital voting machines (EVMs) could be held on 14 tables on the counting centre.
In keeping with the Conduct of Election Guidelines, postal ballots shall be counted first and the method of counting of votes recorded in EVMs start half-hour later.
After that, counting of votes solid by means of postal ballots and EVMs will proceed concurrently.
Since 2019, VVPAT (voter verifiable paper audit path) slips from 5 randomly chosen polling stations are matched with the EVM depend for larger transparency.
The officers mentioned paramilitary pressure personnel had been deployed to make sure safety through the counting train.
Greater than 65 per cent of the entire 3.71 lakh voters within the Milkipur constituency of Ayodhya district exercised their franchise within the February 5 bypoll, surpassing the turnout recorded within the 2022 meeting polls.
With the constituency a part of the politically-significant Ayodhya district, the bypoll become a status battle between the Samajwadi Occasion and Uttar Pradesh’s ruling BJP.
Ten candidates have been within the fray however the primary contest was between the Samajwadi Occasion’s Ajit Prasad and BJP nominee Chandrabhanu Paswan.
The bypoll was held after Awadhesh Prasad of the Samajwadi Occasion vacated the seat following his victory within the Lok Sabha elections from Faizabad.
Even because the Samajwadi Occasion appeared to retain the seat, the BJP noticed the bypoll as a chance to avenge its loss in Faizabad.
Within the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Meeting polls, Milkipur was the one seat the BJP misplaced in Ayodhya district.
With PTI inputs
