INDIA: RE-POLLS ORDERED IN SOME CONSTITUENCIES AS INDIANS VOTE IN SECOND PHASE OF COUNTRY'S GENERAL ELECTION.

Record ID: 328819

  • Title: INDIA: RE-POLLS ORDERED IN SOME CONSTITUENCIES AS INDIANS VOTE IN SECOND PHASE OF COUNTRY'S GENERAL ELECTION.
  • Date: 19th March 1977
  • Summary: 1. GV & SV People in streets of Kashmiri city (2 shots) 0.11 2. SV People arriving at polling station 0.19 3. SV INT Voters being checked on electoral list 0.34 4. SCU Voter having hand marked with ink 0.42 5. Sv Voters receiving ballot papers .048 6. SV Woman entering polling booth .54 7. SV Woman putting vote in ballot box 1.02 8. SCU EXT Voters queueing to enter polling station (3 shots) 1.10 9. SV & Gv People queueing to enter polling station Shots 5 to 9 continued 1.18 Initials BB/2340 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 3rd April 1977 13:00
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  • Location: KASHMIR
  • Country: India
  • Reuters ID: LVA7DK1X7X1KDG9BIYL5689M3303
  • Story Text: INTRODUCTION: India's election commission has ordered a partial re-poll in six more constituencies after charges of ballot-rigging on the first day of general elections on Wednesday (16 March). The commissions had already ordered fresh voting at 18 other polling stations. The second round of voting began on Friday (18 March) mainly in two key northern states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.

    SYNOPSIS: Early reports said voting was largely peaceful and orderly with an unusually heavy turn-out. Some 30 million people were eligible to vote for candidates in 65 seats. In the Uttar Pradesh state capital of Lucknow, an aunt of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was standing against a former member of the ruling Congress Party. Mrs. Sheila Kaul won the seat for Congress in the 1971 election with a large majority. However she is facing strong opposition now from Mr. Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna, a former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister. He resigned from Congress, along with ex-Agricultural Minister Jagjivan Ram, in February to form the opposition Congress for Democracy (CFD) Party.

    All election campaigning has now officially finished although voting will not be completed until Sunday (20 March) night. Prime Minister Gandhi has had a punishing campaign schedule. She has addressed an average of ten meetings a day for the last three weeks.

    During that period she spent just four hours in her own constituency of Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh. But Mrs. Gandhi has not visited the nearby seat of Amethi where her son Sanjay is standing. Political analyst think the election outcome will be largely decided by the Uttar Pradesh and Bihar voters who elect more than a quarter of the parliament.
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