{"id":11040,"date":"2018-02-25T09:18:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T03:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indusvalleytimes.com\/news\/?p=11040"},"modified":"2018-03-14T12:51:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T07:21:21","slug":"77-per-cent-voters-turn-cast-ballots-odisha-bypoll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indusvalleytimes.com\/news\/77-per-cent-voters-turn-cast-ballots-odisha-bypoll\/","title":{"rendered":"77 per cent voters turn out to cast their ballots in Odisha bypoll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"caps\">By Suryanarayan Panda<\/p>\n<p>BHUBANESWAR, FEB.25: At least 77 voters on Saturday turned out to cast their ballots in assembly by-elections held for Bijepur seat in Odisha\u2019s Bargarh district.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVoting for by-election started at 8 am amid tight security at 281 polling booths. The process continued till 5 pm. The entire election process passed peacefully,\u201d Chief Electoral Officer Surendra Kumar told reporters in the evening.<\/p>\n<p>About 2,21,144 voters were slated to exercise their franchise which will decide the fate of 13 candidates, including BJD\u2019s Rita Sahu, BJP\u2019s Ashok Panigrahi and Congress\u2019 Pranaya Sahu.<\/p>\n<p>While 155 booths were identified as \u2018sensitive,\u2019 a total of 36 platoons of police force and five companies of central paramilitary force were deployed to ensure smooth conduct of the bypoll.<\/p>\n<p>Interruption in polling was reported at some booths as EVM and VVPAT machines developed technical glitches there. Worth mentioning, VVPAT machines were being used in the state for the first time for voting.<\/p>\n<p>The counting of votes and declaration of results will take place on February 28.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, death of Congress MLA Subal Sahu, husband of Rita sahu, on August 22, 2017\u00a0 had necessitated the Bijepur bypoll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Suryanarayan Panda BHUBANESWAR, FEB.25: At least 77 voters on Saturday turned out to cast their ballots in assembly by-elections held for Bijepur seat in Odisha\u2019s Bargarh district. \u201cVoting for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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