Assembly Elections 2023 live: Mizoram registers 77.04% voter turnout, Chhattisgarh records 70.87%

94-year-old Doriami reaches the polling booth in Aizawl to cast her vote.

Chhattisgarh Elections 2023: Voting for remaining 10 seats begins amid tight security

Voting is being held in the naxal-affected Karigundam area after 23 years. The polling process is being held under the security cover by the CRPF 150 Battalion and District Force.

"He (CM Zoramthanga) is showing his dream (of coming back to power). But I don't think so. He will not come again. It seems from the movement of the people that the same government will not come again because the anti-incumbency wave is very much at this time, says ZPM working president K Sapdanga after casting his vote.

Mizoram Assembly Elections: 101 years old and his wife cast their votes today.

Mizoram Elections 2023:

K Sapdanga, working president of ZPM (Zoram People's Movement) and party's candidate for the Aizawl North-III constituency cast his vote.

#WATCH | Chhattisgarh elections | Voters queue up outside a polling booth in Kondagaon as they await their turn to cast a vote in the first phase of Assembly elections.#ChhattisgarhElection2023 pic.twitter.com/p699iWnbpT

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Voters stand in a queue to cast their votes at a model polling station in Sarona under Kanker Assembly Constituency.#ChhattisgarhElection2023 pic.twitter.com/jS2Av7Xmbt

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"We are fighting on the issue of development, security, and peace. Several development works have been done here in the last 5 years. I won from a margin of 6,700 votes and this year, I will win with a bigger margin," says Congress candidate Kawasi Lakhma after casting his vote.

Chhattisgarh Elections 2023:

Chhattisgarh Minister and Congress candidate from Konta Assembly Constituency, Kawasi Lakhma, cast their votes at polling booth number 36 in the Konta Assembly constituency.