Kinnaur: State Government’s Failure Forced Voters Boycott By-Election
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Shimla, Oct 30 – Protesting over setting up power projects, electors of three gram Panchayats, six village polling stations of Kinnuar district boycotted By-polls registering no votes in four polling stations. On the other hand, just 14 votes in two other polling stations cast their vote.
Villagers from three Gram Panchayat namely Rarang, Apka and Jangi had given a call to boycott the by-election after the State government’s failure to scrap the 740 mega Watt Jangi Thapun power project in these panchayats on their demand.
Spokesperson of district returning officer Kinnuar confirmed that EVMs returned empty in Rarang Jangi, Shilpa and Akpa polling stations of these villages in the district under Mandi Parliamentary segment as no voter turned up to cast a ballot.
He further confirmed that just 12 People cast votes in Asrang and two in Khadra polling station till polling came to end at 1800 hrs on Saturday.
He said that in all other polling stations of district about 52 pc turn out was recorded till 1700 hrs as long queues of people were seen in some of the polling stations till 1800hrs waiting their turn to cast vote.
Moderate polling was registered in the Mandi Parliamentary segment as this seat fell vacant after the death of BJP MP Ramswaroop Sharma in the month of March this year.
No report of violence and the untoward incident was reported in the state as the polling ended largely peacefully amid pleasant Weather.
