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75% polling in Nagaland, 67% in Meghalaya: Top 10 developments

Voting conclude in Meghalaya and Nagaland Assembly elections 2018; BJP and Congress slug it out for the Northeast

Meghalaya and Nagaland 2018 Assembly polls
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Ri-Bohi: Women show their ID cards while standing in a queue to cast their vote at a polling station during the State Assembly elections, in Ri-Bohi district of Meghalaya on Tuesday. PTI Photo

BS Web Team New Delhi
The voting in two Assembly elections in North Eastern states ended at 4 pm on Tuesday where over 67 per cent votes were polled in Meghalaya while Nagaland witnessed 75 per cent turnout, the PTI reported.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress are slugging it out to see who will emerge as the more dominant party in the Northeast.

Earlier during the polling in Nagaland, one person was killed and two others injured after clashes erupted between groups of the Naga People's Front and Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party near a polling booth in Akuluto.

Meanwhile, in Meghalaya, there reportedly

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