{"id":239191,"date":"2024-04-20T02:04:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T20:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=239191"},"modified":"2024-04-20T11:26:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T05:56:41","slug":"re-poll-in-four-stations-nearly-70-voter-turnout-in-arunachal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/04\/20\/re-poll-in-four-stations-nearly-70-voter-turnout-in-arunachal\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-poll in four stations, nearly 70% voter turnout in Arunachal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 19 Apr:<\/strong> Four polling stations, one in Kurung Kumey and three in Upper Subansiri will go for re-poll after reports of violence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Pawan Kumar Sain informed that re-polling will take place at Langte Loth in the Nyapin assembly constituency in Kurung Kumey district and Bogia-Siyum, Dingser and Lengi under the Nacho assembly constituency in Upper Subansiri district. In all these four polling stations attempts were made to destroy EVMs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We have identified the persons who tried to either damage or snatch the EVMs. Action has been initiated against the persons,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also, the polling percentage for the assembly poll has been recorded as 67% and 65% for the parliamentary election till 5 pm on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Voting is still going on in several districts. Due to heavy rain in the morning and EVM malfunctioning in several areas, the voting got delayed,&#8221; said CEO Sain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also, the seizure of items and cash has crossed Rs.18 crore in the state. Further, the commission has recorded 44 poll-related violence in the state till now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Supporters of two candidates clashed near a polling station in the Bameng constituency in East Kameng district,&#8221; Inspector General of Police (Law &amp; Order) Chukhu Apa said, adding &#8220;the situation was brought under control and polling is continuing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ruling BJP has already won ten seats unopposed in the 60-member assembly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the 2019 Lok Sabha and assembly polls, which were held simultaneously, the state witnessed a record 83.33 per cent voting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Counting of votes for assembly elections will be held on June 2, while that of Lok Sabha polls is scheduled on June 4.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">DIPRO reports that Polling for all the 69 polling stations of Nari-Koyu and Likabali assembly constituencies of Lower Siang district concluded peacefully this evening with a high voters turn up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is no report of any untoward incidence nor have any adverse reports been received from any polling station.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The biggest festival of the democracy was quite visible with electors in large numbers seen in all the polling stations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year the idea of having distinctive polling stations like the pink polling stations, model polling stations, etc. has added more colour and flair to the electoral process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some of the polling teams have reported back safely with the polled EVMs at the time of filing this report, while retrieving process is expected to be completed by tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Elaborate arrangement, in terms of reception of EVM, its storage and security cover, has been made in Likabali.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 19 Apr: Four polling stations, one in Kurung Kumey and three in Upper Subansiri will go for re-poll after reports of violence. The Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Pawan Kumar Sain informed that re-polling will take place at Langte Loth in the Nyapin assembly constituency in Kurung Kumey district and Bogia-Siyum, Dingser and Lengi under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-239191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}