Bastar: The first phase of polling in Chhattisgarh's Bastar Parliamentary constituency concluded amid heavy security on Thursday, with a voter turnout of 56 per cent.
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UPDATES:
- Voters of Jhiram village removed voting ink after casting their vote.
- One Naxal has been killed in an encounter with security forces in Orchha police station limits in Narayanpur
- BJP MLA Bhima Mandavi family members casts vote in Dantewada. Mandavi was killed in an IED blast in Chhattisgarh.
- 3:00 PM: Polling ends in the Maoist-affected four assembly constituencies of Bastar Lok sabha seat -- Dantewada, Bijapur, Narayanpur and Sukama.
- Surrendered Naxals in Chhattisgarh provided security to the Sukma polling booth.
- The queue of voters at a polling station in Injaram in Naxal affected Sukma district
- Polling in Bastar till 11 am is 21.5 per cent
- Villagers in Dantewada turnout in large numbers to cast their votes for Lok Sabha Elections 2019. On 9th April, BJP MLA Bheema Mandvi and four PSOs lost their lives in a Naxal attack in Dantewada.
- Specially-abled voters from Dantewada reached polling booth to cast their vote
- Election boycott posters by Naxalites outside the polling booth
- ITBP&CGP joint party came under a Naxal ambush when they were moving for a polling booth near Farasgaon, Narayanpur, in early morning hours today.
- ITBP jawans successfully broke the ambush and proceeded for polling booth where polling has begun. No casualties reported.
- Naxals triggered an IED blast on Thursday morning in Chhattisgarh's Narayanpur district in Bastar Lok Sabha constituency where voting is underway
- Polling in Bastar till 9 am is 10.02 per cent
- Minister Kawasi Lakhma cast his vote in Sukma
- Baidu Ram Kashyap reached polling booth to vote in Bastar
- Voting centre number 166 in Bijapur has not started yet due to a technical disturbance in the machine
The Election officer said that a total of 1878 polling booths have been set up in the Bastar parliamentary constituency out of which 741 are sensitive and highly sensitive polling booths.
Besides, 606 booths are Naxal-affected area and 227 are political sensitive polling stations. High alert security has been deployed here for security.
Worst Naxal affected areas:
