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 9:02 AM IST
State Home Minister and BJP candidate from Datia Narottam Mishra casts his vote at a polling booth in Datia
- 17 Nov 2023 9:02 AM IST
Congress candidate from Sonkachh, Sajjan Singh Verma casts his vote at a polling booth in Indore.
17 Nov 2023 9:02 AM ISTState Minister and Congress candidate from Durg Rural, Tamradhwaj Sahu casts his vote at a polling booth in Durg.
- 17 Nov 2023 8:44 AM IST
State Minister and Congress candidate from Durg Rural, Tamradhwaj Sahu casts his vote at a polling booth in Durg.
- 17 Nov 2023 8:38 AM IST
State BJP president VD Sharma holds a meeting at BJP Control Room in Bhopal.
VD Sharma says "Our state BJP team is monitoring the elections underway in the state. Our workers in the Control Room are making sure that the elections are organised in the best possible way...People of the state will bless the BJP and we will get a huge majority. BJP is going to create history in Madhya Pradesh..."
- 17 Nov 2023 8:34 AM IST
#WATCH | Madhya Pradesh: Union Minister and BJP candidate from Narshinghpur Prahlad Patel and his wife offer prayers at Narsinghpur pic.twitter.com/SnYiECndep
— ANI (@ANI) November 17, 2023 - 17 Nov 2023 8:31 AM IST
Congress candidate from Rau, Jitendra (Jitu) Patwari and his mother cast their votes at a polling booth in Indore.
- 17 Nov 2023 8:28 AM IST
BJP candidate from Indore-1, Kailash Vijayvargiya offers prayers at a temple in Indore.
#WATCH | Madhya Pradesh Elections | BJP candidate from Indore-1, Kailash Vijayvargiya offers prayers at a temple in Indore. pic.twitter.com/3VZiPGe0wM
— ANI (@ANI) November 17, 2023
