2 including a girl died during voting, mother and son got burnt: Congressmen clashed over lemon water in the polling booth; 67.07% voting in the last phase in Chhattisgarh -

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Electricity failure at polling booth in Surajpur for two and a half hours

There was no light for about two and a half hours at Kedo polling station in Surajpur district of Surguja Lok Sabha seat. The booth became dark due to sudden switching off of lights in the afternoon. After this, the polling officers continued to conduct voting in the light of mobile torch. At the same time, EVMs also got damaged in many booths on all seven seats, which were replaced. Due to this polling remained halted.

Rain with strong thunderstorm in Raipur, Surguja, Bilaspur, Durg, Korba

Amidst the voting, there was heavy rain with strong thunderstorm in Surguja, Raipur, Durg, Bilaspur and Korba Lok Sabha constituencies. This has given relief to people from the heat, but voting has been affected. There was no difference in voting in the last hour in Bilaspur, Raipur and Korba.

Due to storm and rain, pandals collapsed and posters and banners flew at many places in Korba, Bilaspur and Raipur. Due to this sudden change in the weather, party workers from many places also left the pandal and ran away.

Pandals collapsed due to strong storm and rain in Korba. Posters and banners also flew away at many places.

Ramlala’s picture in BJP’s pandal, cobra found in the booth

Shri Ram Lalla’s picture was installed in all the BJP pandals in Vaishali Nagar area of Durg Lok Sabha. In these pandals set up near the polling station, the workers started their work with morning prayers. It is written on the picture, ‘They have brought Ramlala, we will bring him.’ Congress raised objection regarding this also.

A cobra came out in the polling booth in Jashpur. He was rescued and released into the forest. Due to this, voting remained stalled for a long time.

At the same time, a cobra came out in the polling booth set up in Ganjhiyadih Secondary School, Gram Panchayat of Farsabahar development block of Jashpur district of Raigarh Lok Sabha. After this the voting stopped. On receiving the information, Mayank Sharma of Kotba arrived and after a lot of struggle, locked him in the compartment of Cobra. He was rescued and left safe in the forests of Ambakchar.

See voting in pictures…

The smallest polling booth of Chhattisgarh is in Bharatpur-Sonhat assembly, 120 km away from Sheradand, Koriya district headquarters. There are only 5 voters here. Voting time was till 6 o’clock but 100 percent voting took place at 9 o’clock in the morning itself.

In Surguja Lok Sabha, voters of five generations voted together at Semli polling station of Oberi Gram Panchayat of Balrampur. Members of five generations including Aman Singh voting for the first time along with Leela Singh, the oldest voter in the family.

In Saila Semra of Korba Lok Sabha, villagers boycotted the elections demanding basic facilities like roads. On receiving the information, a team of election officials arrived to convince them, but the villagers remained adamant on their demand.

There was silence at the polling booths in Bilaspur as the afternoon approached. Only two-four voters were visible at the polling station located in Sirgitti, whereas in the morning a crowd of voters had gathered here.

To know the election updates on 7 Lok Sabha seats of Chhattisgarh, click on the link given below…

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Voting continues on Bilaspur Lok Sabha seat

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