Odisha’s Padampur Assembly constituency data 75.89 per cent polling 

By Express News Service

BHUBANESWAR: Brisk polling was reported within the bypoll to Padampur Assembly constituency in Bargarh district on Monday. The election noticed 75.89 per cent voters turnout until 5 pm, mentioned Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) SK Lohani.

Polling within the meeting phase of the naxal-affected district started in all 319 cubicles at 7 am amid tight safety preparations and the voters turnout remained practically 47 per cent within the first six hours.

Just a little over 2.57 lakh voters, together with 12 from the transgender group, have been eligible to train their franchise within the bypoll.

Polling for the byelection within the constituency ended at 4 pm because the voting time within the rural phase was curtailed by two hours in view of the LWE (Left-Wing Extremism) menace. However, with the voters, current on the sales space premises after the deadline, the polling continued until 5 pm, EC officers mentioned.

Voting was partially disrupted at sales space no – 209 at Rajabaoda Sambar in Padampur attributable to a technical snag within the EVM, sources mentioned.

Voting, nevertheless, remained clean and peaceable in all the opposite cubicles throughout the bypoll. At least 15 platoons of police and 9 corporations of central paramilitary forces had been deployed to make sure clean voting, they mentioned. Voter turnout within the constituency in 2019 was one of many highest at 79 per cent.

Bypoll to the meeting phase was necessitated after the dying of five-time MLA and the sitting legislator of BJD from the constituency, Bijay Ranjan Singh Bariha.

The ruling celebration fielded the daughter of the previous MLA, Barsha Singh Bariha, who can also be the daughter-in-law of a senior BJP chief and former Satyabadi MLA Rama Ranjan Baliarsingh, for the bypoll.

BJP, alternatively, fielded 57-year-old Pradip Purohit who had received the seat in
2014, however misplaced in 2019. Congress fielded Satya Bhusan Sahu, a three-time MLA from Padampur, who had additionally served as the previous authorities chief whip. Sahu had received from the Padampur seat in 1980, 1985 and 2004 Assembly elections.

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had canvassed for the celebration candidate Barsha, whereas Union ministers Dharmendra Pradhan, Narendra Sigh Tomar, Ashwini Vaishnaw, and Bishweswar Tudu had campaigned for Pradip Purohit within the bypoll. All three candidates have been seen casting their votes.

The counting of votes and announcement of outcomes will happen on December 8.

BHUBANESWAR: Brisk polling was reported within the bypoll to Padampur Assembly constituency in Bargarh district on Monday. The election noticed 75.89 per cent voters turnout until 5 pm, mentioned Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) SK Lohani.

Polling within the meeting phase of the naxal-affected district started in all 319 cubicles at 7 am amid tight safety preparations and the voters turnout remained practically 47 per cent within the first six hours.

Just a little over 2.57 lakh voters, together with 12 from the transgender group, have been eligible to train their franchise within the bypoll.

Polling for the byelection within the constituency ended at 4 pm because the voting time within the rural phase was curtailed by two hours in view of the LWE (Left-Wing Extremism) menace. However, with the voters, current on the sales space premises after the deadline, the polling continued until 5 pm, EC officers mentioned.

Voting was partially disrupted at sales space no – 209 at Rajabaoda Sambar in Padampur attributable to a technical snag within the EVM, sources mentioned.

Voting, nevertheless, remained clean and peaceable in all the opposite cubicles throughout the bypoll. At least 15 platoons of police and 9 corporations of central paramilitary forces had been deployed to make sure clean voting, they mentioned. Voter turnout within the constituency in 2019 was one of many highest at 79 per cent.

Bypoll to the meeting phase was necessitated after the dying of five-time MLA and the sitting legislator of BJD from the constituency, Bijay Ranjan Singh Bariha.

The ruling celebration fielded the daughter of the previous MLA, Barsha Singh Bariha, who can also be the daughter-in-law of a senior BJP chief and former Satyabadi MLA Rama Ranjan Baliarsingh, for the bypoll.

BJP, alternatively, fielded 57-year-old Pradip Purohit who had received the seat in
2014, however misplaced in 2019. Congress fielded Satya Bhusan Sahu, a three-time MLA from Padampur, who had additionally served as the previous authorities chief whip. Sahu had received from the Padampur seat in 1980, 1985 and 2004 Assembly elections.

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had canvassed for the celebration candidate Barsha, whereas Union ministers Dharmendra Pradhan, Narendra Sigh Tomar, Ashwini Vaishnaw, and Bishweswar Tudu had campaigned for Pradip Purohit within the bypoll. All three candidates have been seen casting their votes.

The counting of votes and announcement of outcomes will happen on December 8.