{"id":7235,"date":"2024-05-09T22:37:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samvadbharatnews.com\/?p=7235"},"modified":"2024-05-09T22:37:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T22:37:00","slug":"polling-for-nine-seats-in-madhya-pradesh-largely-peaceful-the-hindu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samvadbharatnews.com\/?p=7235","title":{"rendered":"Polling for nine seats in Madhya Pradesh largely peaceful – The Hindu"},"content":{"rendered":"

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May 07, 2024 10:51 pm | Updated May 08, 2024 01:55 am IST – Bhopal
Voters wait to cast their votes for the third phase of Lok Sabha Polls in Betul, Madhya Pradesh, on May 07, 2024. | Photo Credit: ANI
The nine seats in Madhya Pradesh \u2014 Morena, Bhind, Gwalior, Guna, Rajgarh, Sagar, Vidisha, Bhopal and Betul \u2014 that voted in the third phase of the Lok Sabha election on Tuesday recorded an approximate turnout of 66.5%.
Rajgarh reported the highest turnout with 76.19% electors voting, while Bhind in the Chambal division recorded the lowest polling in the State at 55.44%, according to data shared the by State\u2019s Chief Electoral Officer Anupam Rajan.
While voter turnout was less than 60% in Chambal region\u2019s Bhind and Morena, Rajgarh, Guna, Vidisha and Betul reported more than 70% voting. Mr. Rajan said the average voter turnout in the nine seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha election was 66.63%.
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Among prominent candidates in the fray were former Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the BJP candidate from Vidisha, former Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh, the Congress nominee from Rajgarh, Union Minister and BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia from Guna and former Bhopal mayor Alok Sharma, the BJP candidate from Bhopal.
Earlier in the day, Mr. Rajan refuted Mr. Singh\u2019s claims of EVM malfunctioning at some polling booths in Rajgarh.\u00a0In a video message, Mr. Singh said, \u201cIn polling booth 24 in Chachaura (Assembly segment), 11 votes were cast but the machine is showing 50.\u201d He alleged that one of his party workers had been detained by the police and BJP leaders \u201cwith more serious charges\u201d were roaming free.
\u201cThe police is allowing BJP people to campaign within 100 metres (of the polling booths), while we are being beaten with batons and pushed away. We have complained about all these things,\u201d he said.
Mr. Rajan said he spoke to the Guna District Collector and found out that no such incident took place.
While voting was peaceful in all nine constituencies, reports of a clash between supporters of two candidates over allegations of bogus voting emerged from a village in Bhind. A police official said four to five people were injured in the incident.
In Morena, the police kept several candidates, including BJP\u2019s Shivmangal Singh Tomar, Congress\u2019 Satyapal Singh Sikarwar and BSP\u2019s Ramesh Garg, in preventive custody. They cast their votes in the evening.
A video from Morena showed a local Congress worker alleging that his family was attacked by BJP workers who tried to stop his family from voting. He accused the administration and the police of bias.
So far, 21 seats in Madhya Pradesh have gone to polls in the first three phases, while the remaining eight seats will vote in the fourth phase on May 13. The State has 29 Lok Sabha seats of which the BJP currently holds 28, while the Congress had won only one in 2019 \u2014 Chhindwara.
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