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73.38 per cent polling in Sirsi segment

By Our Correspondent

SIRSI, APRIL 27. The polling percentage in the Sirsi-Siddapur Assembly Constituency is 73.38.

The percentage is 71.84 in Sirsi taluk and 75.05 in Siddapur, official sources said here on Tuesday. The highest voting in the constituency is 91.26 per cent in Alagod and the lowest is 54 per cent in Government Urdu School, Sirsi.

In the Basi polling booth near Banavasi, Madiwal Kerasami Basavanneppa (37) could not vote because he was enrolled as dead in the voters' list.

Sudhakar Hegde of Balagar village, who had come from Bangalore to vote at the Ajjibal polling booth, could not exercise his franchise as his name was not in the list. He had his voter identity card with him.

In Sonda Khasapal polling booth, voting process went up to 7.30 p.m. This was because there was only one booth in place of the two earlier.

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