Chhattisgarh Assembly Election 2023: Naxal-prone Bastar among 20 constituencies to vote tomorrow amid high security
assembly elections in Chhattisgarh, polling teams reached all the polling stations within the Bastar district on Monday. The election for the 90-member state assembly is scheduled to take place in two phases, with voting on November 7 and November 17. In the first phase of voting, 20 constituencies, including 12 from the Bastar division, are participating.
These 20 constituencies are spread across seven districts in the Naxal-affected Bastar division and four additional districts, which include Rajnandgaon, Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki, Kabirdham, and Khairagarh-Chhuikhadan-Gandai. Among these twelve seats, polling will occur from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
on Tuesday in Antagarh, Bhanupratappur, Kanker, Keshkal, Kondagaon, Narayanpur, Dantewada, Bijapur, and Konta. Also Read: Who will be CM if Congress is elected to power? However, voters in the remaining three seats – Bastar, Jagdalpur, and Chitrakot, will have the opportunity to cast their ballots between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., PTI reported.
Chhattisgarh is gearing up for its elections, featuring a significant 64,523 polling stations. The Election Commission reported a total of 5,61,36,229 eligible voters, which includes 2,63,829 first-time voters aged 18-19. Also Read: Rahul Gandhi vows caste census 'within 2 hrs' in poll-bound Chhattisgarh; BJP asks ‘will there be one in your family?’s In preparation for the assembly elections in the Bastar division, Inspector General of Police (Bastar Range) Sundarraj P said on Sunday that a thorough security arrangement has been put in place.
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