| Polling
concludes peacefully in TN, 55 per cent voter turnout
Chennai, May 10: A little over 55 per cent of the 4.75 crore
voters in Tamil Nadu exercised their franchise during the nine-hour
polling in the 234 constituencies in the state which officially
came to an end at 4 p.m. on Thursday.
Polling was
peaceful by and large except for some sporadic incidents of road
roko, stabbing and gheraoing of a state minister. Polling was also
peaceful in Tiruchirappalli by-election to the Lok sabha. The vacancy
was caused by the death of Union power minister Rangarajan Kumaramangalam
in August last.
Prominent among
those who cast their votes were state Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi,
AIADMK supremo Jayalalitha, BJP President Jana Krishnamurthy and
Tamil film super star Rajni Kanth.
Elsewhere in
the state, several DMK ministers, former ministers and leaders of
various political parties cast their votes in their native places.
A total of 1857
candidates, including 104 women, are in the fray for the Assembly
polls.
For the first
time, electronic voting machines were used in all the 234 Assembly
constituencies and the Tiruchirappalli Lok sabha constituency.(PTI)
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