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The bypolls were conducted for two Assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh, one each in Meghalaya and Odisha and the Jalandhar Lok Sabha constituency in Punjab.
Several angry villagers destroyed some electronic voting machines, VVPAT (Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail) machines and damaged the vehicles of polling officers at Masabinal village in Basavana Bagewadi taluk of Vijayapura district, after "rumours" that the officials were "changing" the EVMs and VVPATs.
The voting is on till 4pm and the votes will be counted in both states on March 2.
The PM said the trust reposed by crores of people was his protective shield which cannot be breached by abuse and allegations from his detractors.
According to the Election Commission, the counting of votes is taking place at 116 counting centres in Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat, and Odisha, Bihar, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh.
Political observers point out that in the past whenever there has been lower voter turnout, BJP’s seat tally has fallen.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) are contesting in all the 93 seats.
The counting of votes will take place at Parliament House on July 21 and the next President will take oath on July 25.
Congress leaders AK Antony, VD Satheesan, Oomen Chandy and Ramesh Chennithala slammed the Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan for his hopes to secure 100 seats in the assembly.
The counting will begin at 8 am today at the Maharaja's College. Postal votes will be counted first, EVMs will be opened after that.