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Good turnout for re-polling in two booths

—PHOTO: M.Srinath

second chance: People queuing up at the booth at Valayavattam village at Thiruvidaimaruthur in Thanjavur district on Saturday.

THANJAVUR: Re-polling was held in two booths-one at Paruthikudi village and another at Valayavattam village in Thiruvidaimaruthur Assembly constituency in Thanjavur District on Saturday.

The public were observed enthusiastically casting their votes when the booths opened for polling.

According to an official statement, polling ended at 5 p.m.

Good turnout

Polling at Valayavattam booth was 87 per cent and at Paruthikudi 82 per cent. Total number of votes for Paruthikudi booth was 463 out of whom 238 are male and 225 are women. Out of them 380 - men 186 and women 194 – cast their votes.

In Valayavattam booth, of the total number of 830 votes, 724 voters – men 384 and women 340 – cast their votes. One person in each of the booths opted for 49(O) rejecting the candidates in the fray and exercising his option not to vote for anyone.

It may be recalled that voters of these two booths boycotted the polls on April 13 as voters' lists got changed.

Because of the change, voters of Valayavattam booth were assigned to vote in Paruthikudi booth and voters of Paruthikudi booth were assigned to vote in Valayavattam booth. As the distance between two booths was five kms, people decided to boycott unless they were allotted to vote in their respective booths.

District Collector M.S.Shanmugham offered to operate free buses to the booths but people refused to vote.

When the matter was referred to Election Commission, it issued orders to conduct repoll on April 16 changing the booths. Accordingly the booths were changed and people voted on Saturday in their respective booths.

Sakthivel, Returning Officer and District Taluk Supply Officer and Ashok Kumar, Revenue Divisional Officer of Kumbakonam monitored the repoll on Saturday.

The entire activity in the two booths was videographed.

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