Himachal bypoll sees 17 per cent voting before noon

SHIMLA: Himachal Pradesh's Mandi parliamentary constituency recorded nearly 17 per cent voter-turnout in the first three hours after a sluggish start to polling around 8am in a byelection Sunday. "The voter-turnout was just seven per cent in the first one hour but by 11am it rose to nearly 17 per cent," an electoral officer told IANS here.
Voting began at 8am and there was no report of any delay in polling due to malfunctioning electronic voting machines (EVMs), he said. The polling will end at 5pm.

A total of 11, 24,786 voters will decide the fate of four candidates, including two independents. The main contest is between the ruling Congress and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). However, voting in the landslide-hit Kinnaur district, part of the constituency, will be held on June 27. The vote count will be held simultaneously on June 30.

The Congress has pitted Pratibha Singh, former MP and wife of six-time chief minister Virbhadra Singh, against BJP's former minister and sitting legislator, Jai Ram Thakur.

The bypoll was necessitated after Virbhadra Singh relinquished the seat following his election to the state assembly in December 2012. The chief minister and his family cast their vote in Rampur, some 120km from the state capital, in the morning.

The Mandi constituency, which includes Kullu, Mandi and some areas of Chamba and Shimla districts, besides the tribal-dominated assembly constituencies of Kinnaur and Lahaul and Spiti, is one of the biggest in the country.

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