Assembly elections: Voting begins in Jharkhand and J&K amid tight security

Amid tight security, nearly 13 percent of the electorate exercised their franchise in the first two hours of polling in 17 constituencies spread across eight districts of Jharkhand on Tuesday.

While Koderma recorded the maximum 16.90 percent voting in the first two hours, Barkagaon constituency witnessed the minimum at 7.60 per cent, polling officials said.

Some faulty EVMs were immediately replaced on receiving complaints from a few polling booths, they said. Voters were seen standing in queues in front of the booths from 7 AM and were keeping themselves warm by lighting small fires by the roadside near booths.

Former Jharkhand chief minister Babulal Marandi, ex-Assembly speaker C P Singh and three incumbent ministers are among the candidates whose fate will be decided in today's election.

There are as many as 2,713,65 voters in the 18/19 age group in the electorate of 50,16,657, including 23,55,728 women.

The constituencies going to the poll in the third phase are Kodarma, Barkatha, Barhi, Barkagaon, Ramgarh, Mandu, Hazaribagh, Simaria (SC), Dhanwar, Gomia, Bermo, Ichagarh, Silli, Khijri (ST), Ranchi, Hatia and Kanke (SC).

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Rahul Gandhi's campaign made victory easy for BJP: Amit Shah

"It had become easy for BJP to win the seats wherever Rahul had campaigned in the last parliamentary polls. This is also happening in the Assembly elections in Jharkhand," Shah said while addressing an election rally in favour of party candidate Madhav Lal Singh, a sitting MLA at Gomia in Bokaro district.

Congress was concerned about the sea of humanity turning up at all rallies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he claimed.

"You have ousted the mother-son government at the Centre and now it is the turn of Jharkhand to dismiss the father-son duo and install a full-majority government of BJP," Shah said referring to the Sibu Soren-Hemant Soren regime.

While Congress had committed the coal scam, the Soren-government was indulged in the sand scam, he alleged, assuring the people that BJP would expose them and "punish the culprits".

Congress has been asking for a six-month account of the Narendra Modi government, but they should first give the country an account of their sixty-year rule, Shah said.

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