Bhubaneswar: Four Lok Sabha and 28 Assembly constituencies under them are set for simultaneous elections in Odisha on Monday.
Voting will be held in Berhampur, Koraput, Nabarangpur, and Kalahandi Lok Sabha constituencies and 28 Assembly segments under them tomorrow, Odisha’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) NB Dhal said.
Altogether 37 candidates are in the fray for the four Lok Sabha seats, while 243 nominees are contesting for the 28 Assembly seats. The Biju Janata Dal, BJP, and Congress have fielded candidates for all the seats.
Voting will start at 7.00 am on Monday in 7,303 polling stations across the four Lok Sabha seats and the 28 Assembly segments and will continue till 6 pm. In some remote regions, voting will end at 4.00 pm and 5.00 pm keeping in view the Maoist menace, Dhal said.
A total of 62.87 lakh electorate, including 31.89 lakh women, will exercise their franchise in the first round of the twin polls in Odisha tomorrow. Interestingly, women voters outnumber the 30.97 lakh male electorates in the first phase of polls in Odisha.
The four Lok Sabha seats that will go to polls on Monday are spread over six Maoist-affected districts – Malkangiri, Koraput, Rayagada, Nabarangpur, Nuapada and Kalahandi – and Ganjam, Berhampur and Gajapati. Over 1,264 polling stations, including all booths in Maoist-affected areas, have been identified as sensitive, and arrangements for webcasting have been made in 60 per cent of the 7,303 booths.
