An estimated 73.30% voters peacefully exercised their voting rights in 254 polling stations during the second phase Lok Sabha Election held in Dima Hasao
Anup Biswas
An estimated 73.30% voters peacefully exercised their voting rights in 254 polling stations during the second phase Lok Sabha Election held in Dima Hasao on Friday.
As a result of the hectic awareness campaign regarding the election, Female voters of Dima Hasao outnumbered their male counterparts in exercising their democratic rights.
Polling across 254 polling stations was conducted peacefully in Dima Hasao district for Lok Sabha Election. Polling started on time by 7:00 A.M in all the polling stations smoothly throughout the day and ended by around 5 P:M. Voting percentage in 113Haflong (ST) LAC segment of 6-Diphu (ST) constituency began with 14% till 9:00 A.M. followed by 38% upto 11 A.M., 53.87% upto 1:00 P.M, 65.54% upto3:00 P.M and estimated upto 73.30 % by 5:00 P.M. The final polling percentage will derive once polling officials from the far flung polling stations report by tomorrow morning.
The 113-Haflong (ST) LAC segment of 6-Diphu (ST) constituency along with 108-Bokajan, 109-Howraghat, 110- Diphu, 111- Ronghang and 112-Amri under the Karbi Anglong district conducted poll as a part of the second phase for the Lok Sabha Election 2024.
It is to be mentioned here that a good number of voter were deprived of voting following the cancellation of trains due to derailment of goods train near Jating Lampur in Lumding-Badarpur Hill section of N F Railway and public transport.
Mentionable, the voting percentage of Dima Hasao was 77.71% in242 polling stations during the last Lok Sabha election in 2019 where 16-Haflong (ST) LAC segment in Dima Hasao was a part of 3-Autonomous District along with 17 Bokajan, 18-Howraghat, 19- Diphu and 20-Baithalango under the Karbi Anglong district.
Till the filing of this report no unwanted incident was reported in Dima Hasao.
