40 PC polling recorded till 1 pm in second phase Bihar elections

Janjivan Bureau
Patna: Polling percentage of 36.27 recorded until 12 noon for the second phase of the Bihar Assembly polls in 32 Assembly constituencies,where a cane bomb was found by security personnel near a polling station in Rafiganj Assembly constituency.
Polling is peaceful in the state as we have not received any information of untoward incident so far,” Additional Chief Electoral Officer R Lakshmanan said.
Polling is currently underway in six Naxal-hit districts of Kaimur, Rohtas, Arwal, Jehanabad, Aurangabad and Gaya.
Meanwhile, a CRPF jawan Harendra Singh Gurjar died of heart attack while he was manning a polling station at Baseta village of Imamganj Assembly constituency of Gaya district, CRPF Commandant Birendra Verma said.
The jawan belonged to 169th battalion of CRPF and was a resident of Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh, he added.
Jitan Ram Manjhi, who is contesting from Imamganj constituency against JD(U) Assembly Speaker Uday Narayan Choudhary, alleged that large number of names of scheduled castes voters have been removed from the voters’ list.
“We have received information that names of scheduled castes have been removed from polling station located at project high school and polling station located at middle school in Dumraon village of Imamganj Assembly constituency,” Manjhi said.
Voters are agitated over the exclusion of their names from the list and party spokesman Danish Rizwan has lodged a complaint with Chief Electoral Officer Ajay V Nayak in this regard, Manjhi said.
A cane bomb was found by the security personnel near polling station number 144 located in Balar village of Kasma police station area that falls in Rafiganj Assembly constituency of Aurangabad district, Kasma police station SHO Sujit Kumar.