PRAYAGRAJ: Around 37.59% of total 63,729 voters cast their vote in the
Allahabad-Jhansi graduate constituency poll at 116
polling booths amidst
Covid protocol in the Prayagraj district on Tuesday. Overall, the Allahabad-Jhansi graduate constituency recorded 41.10% polling.
In Prayagraj district, a total of 23,954 out of 63,729 voters had cast their votes at different polling booths.
The fate of 16 candidates, including nine from Prayagraj, has been locked in the ballot boxes.
Officials said that elaborate security arrangements were in place at all polling booths. The polling percentage was low in the morning hours but started picking up in the afternoon hours. The polling percentage was only 3.8% till 10 am.
A senior official said that the district was divided into eight zones and 24 sectors for the polls with 46 polling centres and 116 polling booths.
While 22 polling centres were set up in the city limits, other blocks of the district had 24 centres — Soraon (5), Karchana (4), Bara (2), Phulpur (4), Meja (3), Handia (4) and Koraon (2) .
Around 30 quick action teams were also deployed at the polling centres.
Meanwhile, BJP spokesman
Pawan Srivastava said the names of BJP MP from Phulpur Keshri Devi Patel and her son and ex-MLA Deepak Patel along with other family members were missing from the voters list.
Srivatava said that the BJP MP along with her family members had to return disappointed after their names were found missing from the voters list. The BJP MP along with family members had reached Shankargarh block to cast votes.
He also claimed that names of two BJP MLAs, Vikramajeet Maurya and Harshwardhan Bajpayee, were also missing from the voters list. The BJP leaders have demanded a probe into the missing names.
Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party (SP) district spokesman Daan Bahadur Madhur alleged that a man was caught red-handed while forcing voters to cast votes in favour of the ruling party. Babadur said the man, who posed as a sanitary worker, was caught near booth number 59 at Bahadurpur block while allegedly pursuing voters to cast their votes in favour of the ruling party. The SP leaders took up the issue with the sector magistrate and other officials and the man was removed from the polling campus.
Apart from 63,729 voters in Prayagraj, there were 15,755 voters in Fatehpur, 6,056 in Chitrakoot, 10,876 in Banda, 4,430 in Mahoba, 6,457 in Hamirpur, 6,289 voters in Lalitpur, 17,575 in Jalaun, 15,079 in Jhansi and 11,359 in Kaushambi in the Allahabad-Jhansi graduate constituency.