Brisk polling in Muslim areas

BRISK POLLING was reported in Muslim dominated localities where long queues of electorates were seen outside the polling booths throughout the day. Heavy turnout of voters continued at the polling centres of Adampur, Bari Bazar, Jaitpura, Sariyyah and Pakki bazar.

BRISK POLLING was reported in Muslim dominated localities where long queues of electorates were seen outside the polling booths throughout the day. Heavy turnout of voters continued at the polling centres of Adampur, Bari Bazar, Jaitpura, Sariyyah and Pakki bazar. Women clad in traditional ‘ Burka’ had started thronging different polling centers in the city ever since the morning.
Major political parties and independents had set up their election outposts outside the polling centres in these areas.

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The city wore a deserted look as the district administration had declared a public holiday to felicitate the electorates to cast their votes of civic body election. Due to polling, markets including small stalls of tea and betel in majority, remained closed ever since the morning.

There was a complete vehicular restriction for common people on roads but vehicles and ambulances carrying bodies and serious patients were not intercepted. Government owned Roadways buses were plying on the national highway of the district. Common people were allowed to walk on roads without any administrative objection.

Railway and Roadways buses passengers coming to Varanasi from outside, had to face a lot of difficulty as there was no conveyance available for them to take them to their destinations in the city. Thousands of such passengers waited at the railway and bus stations for the end of polling at 5 pm. Hundreds of them along with their light luggage, were seen walking on roads.