Haryana News Desk!!! Voting for Haryana Assembly Elections 2024 is today. 1031 candidates are in the fray from 90 seats in the state and more than 2 crore voters are ready to vote. Voting will take place from 7 am to 6 pm. Election results will come on October 8. Apart from Congress and BJP, this time Jannayak Janata Party (JJP), Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) are also in the fray. This time Congress is contesting the elections in alliance with CPIM. Congress has given one seat to CPIM. JJP has formed an alliance with MP Chandrashekhar Azad’s party Azad Samaj Party (ASP). Enel has an alliance with Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). All four big parties are in the electoral fray to form their government. After voting today on October 8, it will be known who will be crowned Haryana?
More than 2 crore voters and 1031 candidates
This time 1031 candidates are trying their luck in the Haryana Assembly elections. There are 930 male candidates, 101 female candidates and 462 independent candidates. Among the independent candidates, there are 421 male and 41 female candidates. 2.03 crore voters will cast their votes today. Of these, about 1.07 crore are male voters. There are about 95 lakh women voters here. There are 467 third gender voters. There are about 5.24 lakh youth voters here. There are 1.49 lakh disabled voters. Among these, there are 93.5 thousand male voters, 55.5 thousand female voters and 6 third gender voters. There are 2.31 lakh voters above 85 years of age. Among these there are also 89.9 thousand male voters. There are 1.41 lakh women voters here. There are 8821 voters above 100 years of age. Of these, 3283 are male and 5538 female voters. There are 1.09 lakh service voters. These include 1.04 lakh men and 4791 women.
More than 20 thousand polling stations and tight security
This year, 20629 polling stations have been set up at 10495 places for voting in the Haryana Assembly elections. There are 7132 polling stations in the cities. 13497 polling stations have been set up in villages. Women will operate 125 polling stations. The responsibility of 92 polling stations has been handed over to the disabled. Haryana Director General of Police Shatrujit Kapoor himself is in the field. 225 companies of security forces are deployed across Haryana. 30 thousand police personnel, 21 thousand home guards, 11 thousand special police officers (SPOs) will keep an eye on the voting today. 13 companies of security forces are deployed in Nuh alone. 211 gates are located inside the state and 13 gates are located on the border. This time, along with police, paramilitary forces are also deployed at the booths. CCTV cameras have been installed at the polling stations, for monitoring which a control room has been set up in the Chandigarh office of the ECI.