16.7 pc voting recorded for Tripura East LS seat till 9 am

About 16.7 per cent voting was recorded for the Tripura East Lok Sabha constituency till 9 am on April 26.

Polling began at 7 am on Friday, a poll official said

 

Nearly 14 lakh voters, including 6.94 lakh women and 13 transgender persons, will decide the fate of nine candidates, additional chief electoral officer S Bandopadhyay said, according to PTI.

 

The constituency has 38,245 voters in the age group of 18-19 years, 4,678 service voters, and 8,942 voters above 85 years old.

 

The key contest will be between BJP's Kriti Devi Debbarman and INDIA bloc nominee Rajendra Reang, a former CPI(M) MLA.

 

The constituency has 1,664 polling stations in 30 assembly segments.

 

Basic facilities such as drinking water, power supply, ramp for the specially abled voters and toilets are available in all the polling centres, he said.