Bihar polls Phase-2: 37 mn voters set to decide fate of candidates

Tejashwi Yadav slams EC for not releasing genderwise voter data after Phase-1 of elections

- ARCHIS MOHAN & PTI

The final phase of Bihar Assembly polls on Tuesday will have 1,302 candidates, including over half a dozen ministers in the Nitish Kumar government, in the fray across 122 of the 243 seats with 37 million electors eligible to vote.

The polling for first of the two phase elections took place on November 6 on 121 seats, with a voter turnout of 65.08 per cent, which the Election Commission (EC) termed to be a historic all-time high for Bihar.

Votes will be cast at 45,399 polling stations, of which 40,073 fall in rural areas. The EC has made elaborate arrangements to make the voting experience comfortable and to ensure that electors turn up in equally good numbers.