DD News Nagaland's video: BYE-ELECTION TO SOUTHERN ANGAMI-1 AND PUNGRO-KIPHIRE ASSEMBLY CONSTITUENCIES HELD

EXCEPT NEGLIGIBLE INCIDENTS POLLING FOR SOUTHERN ANGAMI-1 ASSEMBLY BYE-ELECTION PASSED OFF PEACEFULLY. POLLING STARTED AT 6 AM AMIDST TIGHT SECURITY. THERE WERE 22 POLLING STATIONS. THIS ASSEMBLY CONSTITUENCY HAS A TOTAL OF 13,588 ELECTORS INCLUDING 53 SERVICE VOTERS. THE FATE OF THREE CANDIDATES IS SEALED IN A BALLOT BOX TILL NOVEMBER 10 WHEN COUNTING WILL BE HELD. THERE WAS A TRINGULAR CONTEST IN THIS CONSTITUENCY-MEDO YHOKHA IS NDPP CANDIDATE, KIKOVI KERA NPF AND PETER SEYIEVILIE ZASHIMO AS INDEPENDENT CANDIFATE. THE THREE CANDIDATES CASTED THEIR VOTES IN THE EARLY HOURS. THE POLLING PERCENTAGE WAS 70.4 PERCENT ACCORDING TO OFFICIAL SOURCE. AND IN PUNGRO-KIPHIRE ASSEMBLY BYE-ELECTION THERE WAS A HUGE TURN-OUT TO DECIDE THE FATE OF FIVE CANDIDATES. BY AND LARGE POLLING PASSED OF PEACEFULLY. PEOPLE IN LARGE NUMBER QUEUE UP THE POLLING STATIONS BEFORE THE BOOTHS WERE OPENED FOR THE VOTERS TO EXERCISE THEIR FRANCHISE. THERE ARE FIVE CANDIDATES CONTESTING FOR THE SEAT. THE CANDIDATES ARE NDPP CANDIDATE, LIRIMONG SANGTAM, KHASEO ANAR CONGRESS, AND THREE INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES WHO ARE ALSO IN THE FRAY ARE K. SHELLUMTHING, T. YANGSEO AND KIUSUMEW YIMCHUNGER. ALTOGETHER THERE WERE 77 POLLING STATIONS WITH 29601 VOTERS; OUT OF WHICH 101 ARE SERVICE ELECTORS AS PER FINAL PUBLISHED E-ROLL 2020. THE VOTING PERCENTAGE FOR THIS CONSTITUENCY WAS 89.80 PERCENT.