Guwahati, April 11: An estimated 65 per cent of voters in Assam today exercised their franchise in the second and last phase of assembly polls in 64 assembly constituencies today amid sporadic incidents of violence.
The polling percentage was expected to go up as voters who already entered the booths were allowed to exercise their franchise even after the end of polling at 3 pm, election commission sources said.
The total number of voters in this phase was 96,77,113 and polling was held in 14 central and lower Assam districts.
Polling was disrupted for a brief period at a booth (55) in Katirihara under Jaleswar constituency with police firing in the air to disperse a group of people who resorted to violence when the presiding officer asked them to produce identity cards, the sources said.
EVM malfunctioning was reported from a booth at Nalbari under Goalpara (West)assembly constituencies.
—-PTi