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70 per cent voting in Naxal-affected areas
70 Percent Voting in Naxal-Affected Areas, CRPF Jawan Dead. 70 per cent voting was recorded across 18 constituencies of Bastar and Rajnandgaon in the first phase of Assembly election in Chhattisgarh, where violence by Naxals who have called for a poll boycott left a CRPF jawan dead.
- Naxals call for poll boycott, kill a CRPF jawan
- 10 bombs, including a 10kg pipe bomb recovered
- ltras also looted EMV machines in Durgapur
- 143 candidates from 12 constituencies are in fray
70 per cent voting was recorded across 18 constituencies of Bastar and Rajnandgaon in the first phase of Assembly election in Chhattisgarh, where violence by Naxals who have called for a poll boycott left a CRPF jawan dead.
A total of 143 candidates from 12 constituencies are in the fray in Bastar division and six constituencies of Rajnandgaon district, which together account for an electorate of 29,33,200, in the first of the two-phase polls to the 90-member Assembly.
Naxals ambushed a team of election personnel when they were returning after conclusion of polling in Katekalyan area of Dantewada district in south Chhattisgarh, killing Central Reserve Police Force jawan B Joseph of 186 battalion.
Also, over ten bombs, including a 10 kg pipe bomb, were recovered and a policeman was injured in a bomb attack by Naxals since morning."Around 70 per cent polling has been registered," Joint Electoral Officer D D Singh told PTI.
Voting, however, failed to start in two `hyper-sensitive' polling booths –- Durgapur and Sitram -- in Kanker district as polling officials could not reach there owing to Naxal resistance. Ultras also looted EMV machines when a polling party was heading to their destination in Durgapur.
Two polling booths in Panidobir area of Kanker were relocated to Gudabeda in Antagarh area due to Naxal threat. Rajendra Mahapatra, a presiding officer at Balinga polling booth of Kondagaon district, died of heart attack this morning, the official said.
