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In Mizoram, over 8.57 lakh voters gear up to decide the electoral fate of 174 candidates, amid tight security arrangements, officials said

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday urged people in Mizoram, especially the youth, to come out and vote in large numbers, as every vote will lay the foundation of a developed and prosperous Mizoram.

Asserting that the MNFs efforts to integrate Zo tribes will reap electoral benefits for the party, he said people fleeing from Myanmar, Bangladesh and Manipur feel safe in Mizoram which is ruled by his party. Polling for the 40-member Mizoram assembly is underway amid tight security arrangements, and it will continue till 4 pm.

As polling got underway for the Mizoram assembly polls, Kharge on Tuesday urged the people of the state to vote in large numbers

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All 40 assembly seats in the northeastern state went for polls in a single phase. In Chhattisgarh, 20 out of 90 seats went for polls in the first phase.

Mizoram Additional Chief Electoral Officer H Lianzela said that voting like in previous years has been peaceful, incident-free and there has been no law and order-related problem till now". “Due to malfunctioning of Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) in a few polling stations initially caused some delay in balloting. The officials immediately replaced the EVMs and voting resumed,” an election official said.

The voting percentage is likely to go upwards when reports from all polling stations, including interior and inaccessible polling stations, come in, says EC in a statement

"If the Congress wins, it will strengthen the INDIA bloc. Planning for the next meeting and the way forward for the alliance would be taken up after campaigning for the state polls ends on November 28,” a senior party leader said

Amid Naxal violence, Chhattisgarh recorded a provisional turnout of around 71 per cent in the first phase of assembly polls, while Mizoram over 77 per cent