Balasore: Polling for by-elections to Balasore Sadar seat is underway with BJD candidate Swarup Das seen exercising his franchise.
Das was seen casting his vote at booth no-160.
Keeping the prevailing pandemic situation, all the voters including Das were allowed into the booth after their thermal screening. The voters are all being provided with a pair of gloves at the entrance.
A total of 2,30,296 voters are to exercise their franchise at 346 booths in Balasore Sadar. While the constituency recorded 12.11 per cent polling till 9am, it witnessed 27.06 per cent polling by 11am.
Except for an incident reported from Adivasi Sahi under Ward No-1 of Balasore town earlier in the day, the polling has so far been reportedly going on peacefully.
Local people had detained a woman for allegedly distributing money among the voters to win their votes for a particular party. The police rescued the woman who hails from Mayurbhanj and have detained her as the probe into the allegation is underway.
PNN