Varanasi: The voting for assembly bypoll in Malhani constituency in Jaunpur district was conducted peacefully on Tuesday with the sealing the fate of 16 candidates in electronic voting machines. By 6pm, 56.65% polling was recorded.
Varanasi divisional commissioner Deepak Agrawal, IG Varanasi range Vijay Singh Meena, Jaunpur district magistrate and election officer Dinesh Kumar remained busy in inspecting the polling booths during the polling.
There are 3.62 lakh voters in Malhani assembly area for whom 554 booths of 238 polling stations were created for polling. To maintain law and order during the polling, the Malhani assembly area had been divided into six zones and 22 sectors.
In view of the by-election all markets as well as educational institutions of the district were closed on Tuesday.