Click to play videoNew Delhi: Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh has warned the state is moving to a Constitutional crisis because elections on Wednesday would lead to a new Assembly by December end but the term of the outgoing House will end in March.
“I don’t think the Constitution would have ever envisaged that there will could be any occasion where even for a short duration there would be two Lok Sabhas or Assemblies in a state. It’s against the constitution-this could have been avoided had the Election Commission suitably fixed the date of polling,” he said as the second and final phase of Assembly elections wrapped up on Wednesday.
Around 67 percent (or nearly three million people) of the 4.4 million voters exercised their franchise to select 65 legislators in a keen contest between the ruling Congress and the BJP. Voter turnout was low in the morning because of fog and cold but improved with the weather.
Kangra district, which has the highest number of 16 seats, recorded the best voter turnout of 65 per cent. The Congress won 11 seats here in 2003.
The best voter turnout of 72.88 percent was in Jubalkhote constituency in Shimla district and the lowest in state capital Shimla (55.42 percent).
Prominent candidates in Wednesday's elections were Singh, Congress candidate from Rohru, and Prem Kumar Dhumal, BJP chief ministerial candidate Bamsan.
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