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UP bypolls: EVM problems in nearly 200 booths

The Rashtriya Lok Dal and Samajwadi Party have complained of malfunctioning of electronic voting machines in dozens of booths during voting in the bypoll for Kairana Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh. Problems with EVMs have also been reported during the Noorpur assembly seat bypoll underway.

Bypoll in Uttar Pradesh’s Kairana began at 7 am today. The polling will continue till 5 pm in the evening. Bypolls are being held in 4 Lok Sabha and 10 assembly constituencies across India.

Only 12% percent polling has been recorded in Kairana in the first two hours of voting. Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav took to Twitter to urge voters to cast their votes despite the widespread reports of EVM malfunctions.

In Kairana, the main contest is between Mriganka Singh of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Hasan. Singh, daughter of the late BJP MP from Kairana, Hukum Singh is counting on the sympathy wave in the name of her father and the power of the Yogi Adityanath government to win the election, while Hasan is pinning her hopes on the opposition unity as the SP, BSP, Nishad Party, Congress and Aam Aadmi Party have all extended their support to her.

Polling has also begun in Uttar Pradesh’s Noorpur, Gomia and Silli constituencies of Jharkhand, Chengannur in Kerala, Maheshtala in West Bengal, Jokihat in Bihar, Ampati in Meghalaya, and Nagaland parliamentary constituency.

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Nitish must pressurise Centre on Bihar’s special category status: Jitan Manjhi

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Patna: Former Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi today urged Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to pressurise the Centre on according special category status to Bihar, failing which he should resign.

“Nitish Kumar should raise with the Centre the issue of getting special category status for Bihar. He should threaten the central government on the issue by giving it an ultimatum of 1-2 months,” Manjhi told reporters here.

He added that if the Centre did not accede to Nitish’s demand, then he should resign, Manjhi, who is Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) national president, said.

Bihar cannot develop unless the state is granted special category status and the country too cannot make much progress without Bihar’s development, Manjhi said while stating that even Prime Minister Narendra Modi is also of the same opinion but he did not do anything concrete on it.

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