Chhattisgarh votes in phase one of Assembly elections
A staggering one lakh personnel are guarding just 18 of the state's 90 constituencies that are voting in the first of the two-phase polling.
Nov 11, 2013 09:49 IST
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A staggering one lakh personnel are guarding just 18 of the state's 90 constituencies that are voting in the first phase of two-phase polling.
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Four people including a Congress candidate were injured in clashes and live bombs were found at polling stations as the Maoist-hit districts of Chhattisgarh went to polls today under unprecedented security.
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The 18 constituencies are in the Maoist strongholds of Bastar and Rajnandgaon districts.
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Two live bombs were found outside a polling station in Dantewada. Maoists had put up posters across the state calling for the boycott of the assembly elections.
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As polling began this morning, an encounter broke out between Maoists and the Border Security Force or BSF in the Kanker in Bastar.
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Chief Minister Raman Singh and three other ministers in the state's BJP government are among 143 candidates whose fate will be decided by nearly three lakh voters today.
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Raman Singh, who is aiming at a third term, is contesting from Rajnandgaon. The chief minister's main rival is Congress's Alka Mudliyar, wife of Congress leader Uday Mudliyar, who was killed in a Maoist ambush on May 25 in Bastar.
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