Assembly polls live: Polling ends in MP, 68.15% voter turnout in Chhattisgarh
Catch the live updates of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh Assembly polls.
CHENNAI: The voting for Madhya Pradesh's all 230 assembly seats and Chhattisgarh's 70 seats--in the second phase is being held today.
While in Madhya Pradesh, the incumbent is the BJP, in Chhattisgarh, it is the Congress that is seeking to retain power.
In MP, voting will be held from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. However, in Baihar, Lanji, and Parswara assembly seats of Balaghat district and some booths of Mandla and Dindori districts, voting will be held till 3 p.m.
In Chhattisgarh, the BJP, which ruled the state continuously between 2003 and 2018, is seeking to replace the Congress government led by Chief Minister Bhupesh Bahgel.
The first phase of polling in the state for 20 seats was held on November 7. Both parties claimed to have done well in the first phase. The Congress had a good strike rate in these 70 seats in the 2018 elections, having won 51 of them.
Polling parties have reached their designated polling stations and 958 candidates are in the fray in this phase.
Over 18,000 polling stations have been set up in the state for voting in this phase. Out of these, 727 are 'Sangwari' booths where women polling personnel have been deployed.
Live Updates
- 17 Nov 2023 11:56 AM IST
Congress Candidate Sanjay Shukla casts his vote at polling booth number 75, in Indore
- 17 Nov 2023 11:56 AM IST
Chhattisgarh Governor Biswabhusan Harichandan says, "Casting vote is the democratic right of every citizen of the country. Democracy demands that all citizens should exercise their rights and by that they decide what sort of government they want in the state and at the Centre. We have come and cast our vote..."
- 17 Nov 2023 11:34 AM IST
19.65% voter turnout recorded till 11 am in the second phase of voting in Chhattisgarh and 27.62% in Madhya Pradesh.
- 17 Nov 2023 11:34 AM IST
19.65% voter turnout recorded till 11 am in the second phase of voting in Chhattisgarh and 27.62% in Madhya Pradesh.
- 17 Nov 2023 11:33 AM IST
After casting his vote, Union Minister and BJP leader Jypotiraditya Scindia says "I am confident the people of the state will secure their growth and development by giving full majority to the BJP. I am not giving any numbers but we will form our govt in Madhya Pradesh. Under the leadership of PM Modi, double engine government will bring prosperity and development in the state..."
#WATCH | After casting his vote, Union Minister and BJP leader Jypotiraditya Scindia says "I am confident the people of the state will secure their growth and development by giving full majority to the BJP. I am not giving any numbers but we will form our govt in Madhya Pradesh.… pic.twitter.com/V5CNFuHKOG
— ANI (@ANI) November 17, 2023 - 17 Nov 2023 11:33 AM IST
Union Minister and BJP leader Jyotiraditya Scindia casts his vote at a polling booth in Gwalior.
- 17 Nov 2023 11:33 AM IST
Congress candidate from Bhind, Chaudhary Rakesh Singh Chaturvedi says, "...Yesterday, I received a call from SDM and he told me that they want to bring in candidates from national parties to circuit house, after 9 am. I said that I would come in if he called others too. So, I came here. All candidates of national parties have been called here, nothing wrong with it...
- 17 Nov 2023 11:33 AM IST
Madhya Pradesh: BSP candidate from Bhind, Sanjeev Singh Kushwaha says, "The administration told us that if we sit at the circuit house, voting process will be held peacefully and there will be peace in the city. When we go to a polling station, our supporters get enthusiastic and there comes chances of an effect on law and order situation..."
- 17 Nov 2023 11:32 AM IST
Bhopal: State Congress president and party's candidate from Chhindwara, Kamal Nath says, "BJP is making efforts through police, money and administration. All they are left with is this...Yesterday, they distributed liquor and money the entire day. People have sent me videos and showed it to me on video call what's going on...I'm saying this on record that Morena SP is working as a BJP worker"
- 17 Nov 2023 11:15 AM IST
Urge people to record 100 per cent polling, confident of BJP return in MP: Union Minister Prahlad Patel
