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60 per cent votes polled in Jangipur

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Press Trust of India Jangipur(WB)
Last Updated : Jan 25 2013 | 5:33 AM IST

Returning officer Rajiv Kumar said the polling was peaceful across the constituency with ten companies of central forces deployed in the sensitive areas.

However, polling was boycotted in 26 booths as a mark of protest against bad roads and lack of electricity, he added.

The by-poll was necessitated by the resignation of Pranab Mukjerjee after his elevation to the highest office. He had won twice consecutively from Jangipur - in 2004 and 2009.

The total electorate in the constituency is 12,40,000 and Mukherjee is fighting a multi-cornered contest against Muzaffar Hussain (CPI-M)and Sudhangshu Biswas (BJP).

Trinamool Congress has not put up any candidate against Abhijit Mukherjee as a political gesture despite severance of ties with the Congress.

  

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First Published: Oct 10 2012 | 5:55 PM IST

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