Guwahati: Voting for the Deori Autonomous Council of Assam began on Tuesday morning.
Voting is now taking place at 93 polling places in 22 council constituencies spanning across six districts and four subdivisions in the state.
As many as 75 candidates are running for office in this election. Over 43,000 electors will decide their political future.
Voters were seen waiting in line at one of the polling booths at Bangalmara HS School polling station in Lakhimpur district of Assam since Tuesday morning in order to exercise their right to vote.
Presiding Officer of Bangalmara HS School polling station Nipon Panging reported that voting had started at the usual time of 8 am this morning.
“There are 256 voters at this polling station and the voting is underway peacefully,” the Presiding Officer said.
Voting began in 25 polling places across seven council constituencies in the Lakhimpur district today at 8 am and will last till 4 pm.
Vote tallying will take place on Thursday.
Out of the 75 candidates, 18 are affiliated with the BJP, 4 with the BJP’s ally Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), 14 with the Congress, 7 with the AAP, 2 with the Raijor Dal, 1 with the Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP), and 29 are independent.
A total of 43,595 voters (21412 male and 22183 female) are eligible to cast ballots.
Earlier on November 5, the Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma first unveiled the BJP’s Sankalp Patra for the upcoming elections for the Deori Autonomous Council.
The Chief Minister unveiled the party’s “Sankalp Patra” during a session at the Assam State BJP headquarters at Basistha in Guwahati, which included a number of pledges for the Deori tribes’ overall development.
The state government would begin adding 7 lakh additional beneficiaries to the Orunodoi plan starting in the following month, the chief minister announced when publishing the BJP’s Sankalp Patra.
Sarma had stated, “The state government will grant Rs 10 lakh each to the 100-year-old site of worship of Deori tribes and Rs 2.50 lakh to other place of worship of Deori tribes.”