Polling Begins For Padampur Assembly Seat

Padampur: Polling for the Padampur assembly constituency began at 7 AM at 319 booths in Bargarh district on Monday.

The voting will continue till 4 pm. A total of 2, 57,474 voters (1,29,497 male and 1,27,565 female voters) will exercise their franchise at 319 booths.

Of them, six are pink booths and 15 are model booths.

To maintain law and order situation during the polling, nine companies of Central forces and 41 platoons of forces have been deployed.

Webcasting of the polling process has been planned in 120 booths, while 66 would be under CCTV surveillance.

There are 15 model booths and six pink ones, which have women security personnel and polling officials.

Pick-up and drop arrangements have been made for voters with physical disabilities.

The ruling BJD fielded Barsha Singh Bariha, the daughter of Bijay Ranjan Singh Bariha whose death necessitated the by-poll, while the opposition BJP’s nominee is the former MLA and party’s Krushak Morcha president Pradip Purohit.

Congress’ candidate Satya Bhusan Sahu had won the seat three times earlier. The voting will be counted on December 8.