India News | Voting for Tripura East LS Constituency Begins
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Voting for the Tripura East Lok Sabha constituency began at 7 am on Friday, a poll official said.
Agartala, Apr 26 (PTI) Voting for the Tripura East Lok Sabha constituency began at 7 am on Friday, a poll official said.
Nearly 14 lakh voters, including 6.94 lakh women and 13 transgenders, will decide the fate of nine candidates, additional chief electoral officer S. Bandopadhyay said.
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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.
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