Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls 2018 LIVE: Voting to take place for 230 constituencies in single phase

Update at 8:00 PM: Kamal Nath demanded repolling in areas where the voting process was halted for three hours or more. "We've demanded that repolling be done at all those polling booths where voting process was halted for three hours or more because voters do not come back there as everybody has some work. Merely saying that polling will be extended till 9 o'clock or 10 o'clock is not right," he said.

He also remarked on the BJP saying that the state has done away with the party, "The good thing about today's polls is that we are done away with two things, one is elections and the other is the BJP."

He also said he expected a surprise result in the polls, "I had said that we will win more than 140 seats but after today's voting and with all the information coming in, there is a possibility of a very surprising result."

Update at 6:45 PM: Chief Electoral Officer, Madhya Pradesh, VL Kantha Rao has said that 883 ballot units and 881 control units were replaced. 2126 VVPATs were replaced during mock poll and during voting.

Update at 6:30 PM: 74.61% voter turnout recorded till 6 PM

Voting is still underway.

Update at 5:00 PM: 62.47% voter turnout in MP till 4.30 PM

4.30 PM

Update at 3:25 PM: 51.69% voter turnout in MP till 3 PM

Update at 2:45 PM: 34.99% voter turnout recorded till 2 PM

Update at 2:00 PM: 21% voter turnout recorded till 12 PM

Update at 11:50 AM: 13.97% voter turnout recorded till 11 AM

Update at 11:30: AM: The highest polling so far is in Agar-Malwa where there is 35% voter turnout. The lowest voter turnout at 15% is in Rewa. At least 1.10 crore people have voted in the state, including 50 lakh women.

Update at 10:00 AM: 6.39% voter turnout recorded till 9 AM

Update at 8:20 AM: I voted along with my family. I want to appeal to MP to place their vote. Future of MP depends on your votes. We have a target of 200 and we will achieve it: MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Budhni

Update at 8:12 AM: Congress MP chief Kamal Nath offers prayers at Hanuman temple in Chhindwara

Update at 8:11 AM: I request people of Madhya Pradesh to vote and take part in the celebration of democracy: PM Modi

Update at 8:10 AM: Visuals from the polling booth in Indore

Update at 8:00 AM: Polling begins in 230 constituencies of the state

Update at 7:50 AM: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan offers prayers on the banks of Narmada river, in Budhni.

Update at 7:30 AM: Preparations for polls are underway in Madhya Pradesh 

Update at 7:15 AM: Polling to begin at 8 AM.

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Madhya Pradesh is going into polls to elect legislators for its 230 constituencies on November 28. As many as 2,907 candidates are in the fray for assembly elections this time. 

After weeks of extensive, high-pitched election campaigning by both BJP led by PM Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah and Congress led by chief Rahul Gandhi, the stage is set for the people of Madhya Pradesh to put in their votes to form the new government. 

As the contest is mainly between the ruling BJP and the Congress in the central Indian state, Congress is eying to topple the Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led BJP government that has been in power in Madhya Pradesh for the past 15 years and bidding to regain its power after 2003. Beside BJP and Congress, Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party as also in the battle to form the government in MP.

As per the information by the Election Commission, a total of 65,341 polling booths have been set up in the 230 constituencies of Madhya Pradesh. In the previous Assembly elections that were held in 2013, the BJP has won massive victory with 165 seats, while Congress managed to win only 55 seats. The BSP has won 4 seats. 

Counting of votes is scheduled to take place on December 11.

Meanwhile, the Congress party has been facing controversies in the state after a video of state party chief Kamal Nath resolving to Muslim votes to win the election came into the limelight. 

In the shocking clip, in which Kamal Nath is both visible and audible, speaking from behind his desk, he makes a number of admissions. From declaring the tribal vote unimportant to his party, to announcing that he is unconcerned whether those who contest for the Congress have cases pending against them, to the most shocking confession -- That unless 90% of Muslim voters don't support the Congress, the party is finished.

READ: SEE THIS TAPE: "If 90% Muslims Don't Vote For Us, We're Destroyed", Resolves The Congress In Secret Meeting

 

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