Haryana polls: Voting begins across all 90 seats

More than two crore voters are eligible to cast their votes across 20,630 polling booths.

Haryana polls: Voting begins across all 90 seats

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The voting for the Haryana Assembly elections began on Saturday across all 90 constituencies of the state.

Polling began at 7 am and will end at 6 pm. More than two crore voters are eligible to cast their votes in Haryana across 20,630 polling booths.

More than 1,030 candidates are in the fray, including 302 from national parties, 121 from parties based in the state and 464 Independents.

The Bharatiya Janata Party, which is fighting to win a third-consecutive term, is facing a challenge from the Congress led by former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.

The Indian National Lok Dal has tied up with the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Dushyant Chautala-led Jannayak Janata Party has allied with MP Chandrashekhar Azad’s Azad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram).

The Aam Aadmi Party, which is the Congress’ ally at the national level, is contesting the polls alone.

The counting of votes will take place on Tuesday, alongside that of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly polls. The Union territory had voted in three phases over the past three weeks.

Also read: Why the Congress and AAP failed to forge an alliance in Haryana

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