Voting is underway on Monday for a by-poll to the Kurhani assembly seat in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district where 3.11 lakh voters will deci🔯de the fate of 13 candidates, the election department sai✤d.
Polling began, amid tight security, at 7 am across 320 booths in the constitue🎶ncy, a꧒ll manned by central paramilitary forces besides local police, and will continue till 6 pm.
The assembly segment has been divided into 💧39 sectors.
The sector magistrates will discharge their duties under the supervis❀ion of nine zonal magistrates and one "super zonal magistrate".
The disqualification of RJD MLA An꧂il Kumar Sahani from the assembly has necessitated the by-poll.
Altogether 13 candidates✨, including five Independen💮ts, are in the fray.
The main c♏ontenders are former MLAs Kedar Gupta and ꦚManoj Singh Kushwaha, fielded by the BJP and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) respectively.
Others who are in the fray inclu🐼de Mohd Ghulam Murtaza (AIMIM) and Neelabh Kumar (VIP).
Gupta had lost 💯to Sahani, in the 2020 assembly polls, by a slender margin of around 700 votes. In the by-election, the RJD is backing🔥 the JD(U).
The counting of votes wil🐽l take place on December 8.
