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Over 60 percent voting in Karnataka Lok Sabha
bypoll
Sunday March 18, 2012 09:51:22 PM,
IANS
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Bangalore: The bypoll to Karnataka's Udupi-Chikmagalur Lok Sabha seat ended
peacefully Sunday with over 60 percent of 1.24 million voters
casting their ballots.
"Around 60 percent voting has taken place and the process was
peaceful," a spokesperson for the state election office told
reporters in Bangalore. Booths opened at 8 a.m. and voting closed
at 5 p.m.
The bypoll has been caused by Bharatiya Janata Party's D.V.
Sadananda Gowda vacating the seat after becoming chief minister
last August, succeeding scam-hit party colleague B.S. Yeddyurappa.
The fight is between BJP's youth leader V. Sunil Kumar and K.
Jayaprakash Hegde of the Congress, though Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S)
also has its candidate S.L. Bhoje Gowda, a local leader, in the
fray.
The vote count is on March 21.
Since Gowda held the seat and is facing a determined bid by
Yeddyurappa to oust him, retaining it is critical for him to
continue in office.
Around 7,000 police personnel are on duty to ensure smooth polling
in the constituency spread over Udupi and Chikmagalur districts,
according to state chief electoral office C.S. Suranjan.
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