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Polling for 10 LS seats in Haryana commences

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Press Trust of India Haryana

Polling for ten Lok Sabha seats in Haryana where elections are being held today in the fourth phase began this morning during which fate of prominent leaders including Bhajan Lal will be decided.
   
Voting, which began this morning for the ten seats for which 210 candidates are in fray, would end at 1700 hrs. About 1.20 crore voters are eligible to cast their franchise across 12,894 polling stations, where ballots would be cast electronically.
  
Apart from 78-year-old Lal, who is fighting polls on his son Kuldeep Bishnoi led Haryana Janhit Congress (BL) party from Hisar, the other key contestants whose fate would be sealed today include Union Ministers Selja and Rao Inderjit Singh, both Congress from Ambala (SC) and Gurgaon respectively, industrialistNavin Jindal (Congress, Kurukshetra), Haryana INLD President Ashok Arora (Kurukshetra), former cricketer Chetan Sharma (BSP,Faridabad) and INLD Secretary General Ajay Singh Chautala (Bhiwani Mahendragarh).

 

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First Published: May 07 2009 | 9:40 AM IST

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