Zee Media Bureau
Patna: Seven constituencies will go to polls in the third phase of Lok Sabha elections in Bihar on Thursday.
A total of 108 candidates are in fray in the third phase, including BJP's Shahnawaz Hussain, NCP general secretary Tariq Anwar and former union minister and RJD leader Mohammad Taslimuddin.
The seven seats on which polling will be held tomorrow include Supual, Araria, Kisanganj, Katihar, Purnia, Banka and Bhagalpur. All these constituencies are located in the Seemanchal area bordering Bangladesh and Nepal.
As per the Election Commission estimates, more than 1.04 crore voters are eligible to cast their ballot in these constituencies.
For the purpose, the poll panel has set up a total of 9840 polling stations.
Also tomorrow, the EC will hold repolling for the Assembly segments of Baisi in Purnea and Kochadhaman in Kisanganj.
BJP's Shahnawaz Hussain is contesting from the minority-dominated Bhagalpur seat. He is the sitting MP and is facing triangular contest from Abu Kaiser of JD(U) and Bullo Mandal of RJD.
JD(U) candidate for Kisanganj, Akhtarul Iman withdrew his nomination which has pitched Congress' Maulana Asrarul Haque and BJP's Dilip Jaiswal in a straight fight in the constituency.
NCP leader Anwar is locked in a keen battle with BJP's Nikhil Chaudhary and JD(U)'s Ramprakash Mahto.
A total of 57,000 security personnel, belonging to 221 companies of security forces, including 147 central forces like CRPF, ITBP, BSF, CISF and RPF would be on duty on the polling day, state Chief Secretary A K Sinha said.
Voting would be held from 7 am to 6 pm in all polling booths except in two assembly segments of Banka constituency.
In Banka and Katoria Assembly segments of Banka constituency, voting would be held till 4 pm due to Maoist threat in the area.
(With PTI inputs)
First Published: Wednesday, April 23, 2014, 11:09
