Ahead of the first phase, polling staff left for sensitive booths in Gadchiroli-Chimur

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Before the first phase of voting on April 19 lok sabha election 2024More than 460 polling officials left for the ‘sensitive’ and ‘hypersensitive’ booths of Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli-Chimur Lok Sabha seat on Wednesday, a release said, PTI reported.

According to PTI, there are 1,891 polling stations in the constituency, of which 319 stations have been marked ‘sensitive’, 200 ‘vulnerable’ and 16 ‘ultra sensitive’.

A Gadchiroli district information office release said 80 polling party members were sent to booths assigned to them, 359 traveled by buses and 23 traveled to the Naxal-hit constituency bordering Chhattisgarh and Telangana, according to PTI. Sent by jeeps.

Gadchiroli-Chimur is one of the five constituencies in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra that will go to polls in the first phase on April 19 (Friday).

Campaign ends on five Lok Sabha seats of Maharashtra

Meanwhile, campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections 2024 ended on Wednesday evening in five constituencies in eastern Maharashtra, PTI reported.

Voting will be held in the constituencies of Vidarbha region of Maharashtra including Nagpur, Ramtek, Bhandara-Gondiya, Chandrapur and Gadchiroli in the first phase of elections on April 19.

There is a direct contest in Nagpur between Union Minister and senior BJP leader Nitin Gadkari and Congress’s Vikas Thackeray.

Nitin Gadkari defeated in 2019 CongressNana Patole by 2,16,000 votes.

According to PTI, the constituency, which also houses the headquarters of the RSS, has a total of 22,18,259 voters, including 11,10,840 male voters, 11,07,197 female and 222 transgenders.

In Chandrapur, BJP candidate and Maharashtra Forest Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar is facing off against Congress candidate Pratibha Dhanorkar, wife of the late Suresh Dhanorkar, who was the only Congress MP elected to the Lok Sabha from Maharashtra in 2019 from this seat. The Congress MP died last year.

According to PTI, there are a total of 18,36,314 voters (9,45,026 male and 8,91,240 female) in Chandrapur, Maharashtra.

In Bhandara-Gondiya, BJP has fielded sitting MP Sunil Mendhe, who is contesting against Congress candidate Dr. Prashant Patole.

(With PTI inputs)