Saturday (December 7): An estimated 63.36 per cent votes were cast in today’s second phase of election for the Assembly in Jharkhand.
In an incident of violence, one person was killed in firing by security personnel near a polling booth.
The voting figure is likely to go up as reports from remote places are awaited.
Polling in the 20 constituencies had begun at 7 am amid tight security. It ended at 3 pm in 18 of them while in the rest two – Jamshedpur (East) and Jamshedpur (West) – the polling ended at 5 pm, Election Commission sources said.
Chief Minister Raghubar Das was in the fray in Jamshedpur (East).
Jharkhand Additional Director General of Police Murari Lal Meena said the man was killed when personnel of the Rapid Action Force (RAF) fired on the assailants near booth number 36 in Sisai constituency for trying to snatch their arms.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted urging voters to come out in large numbers to exercise their franchise.
A total 48,25,038 voters, including 23,93,437 female and 90 third gender voters, were eligible to exercise their franchise to decide the fate of 260 candidates, including 29 women nominees and 73 independents.
