81% turnout in Ellenabad

Tribune News Service

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Hisar, October 30

The bypoll to the Ellenabad Assembly constituency in Sirsa passed off peacefully with a voter turnout of 81.38 per cent — lower than the four previous elections when the polling percentage was above 83 per cent.

The bypoll was necessitated after INLD’s Abhay Singh Chautala resigned from the Assembly on January 27 over the Centre’s three farm laws. He is in the fray again. The BJP has fielded Gobind Kanda, brother of Sirsa MLA Gopal Kanda. Congress candidate Pawan Beniwal had contested the previous two elections on the ticket of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Beniwal cast his vote at his native village Darba Kalan. Not on the election rolls in the constituency, Chautala and Kanda could not cast their vote. However, they were seen interacting with their polling agents at several booths. Except for sloganeering outside a polling station in Makhosarani village, no untoward incident was reported during the poll.