55% polling in Bengaluru's Jayanagar Assembly seat
Bengaluru, June 11: Around 55 per cent voting was recorded on Monday in Bengaluru's Jayanagar Assembly constituency where polling had been countermanded during the May 12 assembly elections due to a candidate's death, an election official said.
"Over 55 per cent voting had been registered in all the 216 polling stations till 6 p.m. The polling percentage is likely to go up by a minute fraction as few voters were still in queues after gates were closed at 6 p.m.," Returning Officer Mamatha told IANS here.
The constituency has a total of 312,252 registered voters.
"A total of 111,689 electorate, including 56,865 men and 54,824 women, have cast their ballots," she said.
Polling, which began at 7 a.m. started on a brisk note and progressed moderately registering 10 per cent voting till 9 a.m., 34 per cent till 1 p.m., and then 42 per cent by 3 p.m.
Noted Kannada writer Baraguru Ramachandrappa and yesteryear Kannada actress Bharathi Vishnuvardhan were among the early voters in the constituency, located in the city's upscale southern suburbs.
Polling in the seat was countermanded following the death of Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) contestant B.N. Vijaya Kumar on May 4.
The BJP nominated Kumar's younger brother B.N. Prahlad as its candidate.
Withdrawal of Janata Dal-Secular's (JD-S) contestant Kalegowda from the fray on June 5 in support of the Congress nominee Sowmya Reddy, has made the electoral battle a straight contest between the two parties.
In all, 19 candidates, including nine Independents were in the fray. The other woman candidate in the contest is Nayeema Khanum of the Praja Raita Raajya Paksha.
Votes will be counted on Wednesday.
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UP: Misled by GPS navigation, car falls into river from partially constructed bridge, 3 dead
Bareilly (UP), Nov 24: Three people died when their car fell into the Ramganga river from a partially constructed bridge here on Sunday, police said, adding that they suspect the driver was misled by its navigation system into taking the unsafe route.
The accident occurred around 10 am on the Khalpur-Dataganj road when the victims were travelling from Bareilly to Dataganj in the Badaun district, they said.
"Earlier this year, floods had caused the front portion of the bridge to collapse into the river, but this change had not been updated in the system," Circle Officer Ashutosh Shivam said.
The driver was using a navigation system and did not realise that the bridge was unsafe, driving the car off the damaged section, the police said.
There were no safety barriers or warning signs on the approach to the damaged bridge, leading to the fatal accident, Shivam said.
Upon receiving information, police teams from Faridpur, Bareilly and Dataganj police station rushed to the spot. They recovered the vehicle and the bodies from the river, Shivam added.
The circle officer said that bodies had been sent for post-mortem. Further investigation into the matter is underway.
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