75% voter turnout in Rajasthan

PTI Updated - November 23, 2017 at 03:09 PM.

Amid sporadic violence, nearly 75 per cent voters on Sunday exercised their franchise in Rajasthan Assembly polls to decide the fate of Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and his bete noire BJP’s Vasundhra Raje among others.

The turnout was 74.38 per cent, the highest-ever in the State, the Election Commission said. The voting was held for 199 out of 200 assembly seats.

Polling was adjourned in Churu constituency to December 13 following the death of BSP candidate Jagdish Meghwal.

Police fired in the air to disperse a group of persons trying to disturb polling at Saleempur in Dausa district, at Rein in Alwar and near Khumber-Deeg in Bharatpur, ADGP (Law and Order) Navdeep Singh told PTI. No one was injured and the polling went on smoothly at these places, he said.

Published on December 1, 2013 16:56