TIL Desk/National/Bhopal/Aizawal/Polling began on Wednesday morning to elect a 230-member assembly in Madhya Pradesh, where the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and Opposition Congress are fighting for supremacy. Polling began on Wednesday morning for the 40-member Mizoram assembly as well, amid tight security.
In MP, polling is being held between 8 am and 5 pm on 227 seats, while in three assembly segments — Lanji, Paraswada and Baihar — in the Naxal-affected Balaghat district, voting time is between 7 am to 3 pm. The BJP is eyeing a fourth straight term in office, while the Congress is hoping for a comeback in the state which was once its stronghold.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan along with his family caste his vote in his ancestral village in Budhni. Chouhan, while speaking to media after casting his vote, urged voters to come out and exercise their franchise. Before leaving to vote, the chief minister and his family offered prayers on the banks of River Narmada in Sehore district.
In Mizoram, Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla is seeking a third consecutive term and the BJP looking to uproot the Congress in its last bastion in the Northeast. The voting process started at 7am and will continue till 4 pm, election office sources said. A total of 7,70,395 electorates, which includes 3,94,897 female voters, would seal the fates of 209 candidates — 15 of them women, the sources said. Long queues of enthusiastic voters were seen outside many polling stations early in the day.
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