Rajasthan: 83 per cent voter turnout reported in phase two

JAIPUR: The state recorded a polling of 83% till end of the second phase of panchayati raj elections, on Wednesday. In Jaipur, polling stood at 86.27%, with Sanganer panchayat samiti recording 87.71% and Govindgarh registering 85.48% voter turnout till the end of voting. Hanumangarh registered highest polling with 91%. Long queues of voters were seen waiting outside polling stations even at 5 pm, the closing time.
In Alwar district's Ramgarh panchayat samiti, over 700 voters boycotted polling in Kareeriya village.A large number of voters gathered outside the Kareeriya Government Upper Primary School and shouted slogans against local MLA Safiya Khan and Congress leader Zuber Khan. The villagers alleged that the local MLA, in order to favour the people belonging to Muslim community, had used political links to add three Muslim-dominated villages to the newly created gram panchayat during the delimitation process. Due to this, people were not coming to vote out of fear, they said.
Miscreants set the bus of a polling party on fire outside a polling station in Udaipur's Rishabhdev.