At least three places have reported violent incidents during polling for the Karnataka Assembly elections on Wednesday. The majority mark to form the government is 113 seats, and a total of 42,48,028 new voters have been registered to vote for the assembly elections. The counting of votes will take place on May 13. Karnataka has recorded a voter turnout of about 37.25% till 1 PM on Wednesday in the polls to elect representatives to the 224-member State Legislative Assembly.
Violent Incidents
According to news agency PTI, citing police sources, violent incidents occurred in three places during the polling. At Masabinal village in Basavana Bagewadi taluk of Vijayapura district, angry villagers destroyed some electronic voting machines, VVPAT machines, and damaged the vehicles of polling officers after rumors that officials were changing the EVMs and VVPATs. In Padmanabhanagar constituency in Bengaluru, some youth armed with sticks attacked their political rivals in a polling booth at Papaiah Garden. They went on a rampage in which a few women who were standing in the queue to vote sustained injuries. At Sanjeevarayanakote in Ballari district, some Congress and BJP workers came to blows.
Voter Turnout
The State is mainly witnessing a three-cornered contest between the ruling BJP, the Congress, and former prime minister H D Deve Gowda’s Janata Dal (Secular). A total of 5.3 crore electors are eligible to cast their vote in 58,545 polling stations across the state, where 2,615 candidates are in the fray. Deve Gowda, AICC president M Mallikarjun Kharge, state Congress chief D K Shivakumar, and BJP State unit president Nalin Kumar Kateel were among those who cast their ballot. In the first six hours of polling, which began at 7 am and will go on till 6 pm, the coastal district of Udupi recorded the highest turnout of 47.79%, with the lowest polling in Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) central limits (parts of Bengaluru city) at 29.41%, election officials said.
Karnataka Assembly Elections 2023 have witnessed violent incidents in three places. Despite this, people turned out to vote, and the voter turnout was around 37.25% till 1 PM on Wednesday. The State is mainly witnessing a three-cornered contest between the ruling BJP, the Congress, and former prime minister H D Deve Gowda’s Janata Dal (Secular). The counting of votes will take place on May 13.
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