Manipur tops repolling list, 283 in all

Repolls have been ordered in as many as 283 polling stations after the first phase of elections yesterday, marred by boycott calls and extre...

Repolls have been ordered in as many as 283 polling stations after the first phase of elections yesterday, marred by boycott calls and extremist violence.

Manipur, which bore the brunt of attacks, accounts for repolls in 117 stations. There was large-scale violence as militants snatched EVMs and took on security forces. Repolling in 12 stations will be held tomorrow, 20 others on April 24 and the remaining 85 on April 30.

An unlikely entry was Karnataka. The state, for the first time witnessed clashes in several constituencies leading to repolling in 70 booths. In Andhra Pradesh, repolling has been ordered in 21 stations with several cases of disruption of polling by extremists being reported.

Repolling has also been ordered for tomorrow in 30 polling stations in Assam, 19 in Orissa, two in Gujarat and one each in J-K and Meghalaya. In Chattisgarh, repolling has been ordered in two polling stations which will be held tomorrow. Nineteen other polling stations in Bastar will repoll on April 23. Repolling is also likely in more than 100 booths in Bihar and a few in Jharkhand.

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