Repolling in 54 booths of seven Assembly seats in UP tomorrow

Lucknow, May 9 (UNI) Repolling in 54 polling booths of seven Assembly constituencies of Uttar Pradesh will be held tomorrow.

These included 46 booths of Kayamganj assembly in Farrukhabad district where the Election Commission had ordered repolling after receiving complaints of iregularities in the voters list.

Incidentally, Louise Khurshid, the wife of UP Congress president Salman Khurshid is the Congress candidate from Kayamganj which had gone to polls in the third phase on April 18.

Repolling in eight polling booths will be held where elections were held in the last phase yesterday.The booths are three in Ayodhya constituency followed by one each in Fazilnagar, Salempur, Sohawal, Laxmipur and Mobarakpur seats.

The repolls have been ordered due the faulty EVMs or electoral rolls.

For Kayamganj Assembly seat, unprecedent security cover has been made, with static observers and videography of all voters in all the booths. Besides, Divisional Commissioner, Kanpur will be camping at Kayamganj to oversee the repolling.

State Chief Electoral Officer(CEO) Anuj Kumar Bishnoi said here that the voters using ration cards, student ID or job cards for photo identification will have to submit their proof at the polling booth which will be returned to them after thorough checking after few days.

'' The three photo identity cards would be check to know if they are genuine'', Mr Bishnoi said.

UNI