Campaigning for Meghalaya ends; voting on February 27

New Delhi (Agencies):

The hustle and bustle of over a month-long election campaign for the February 27 Meghalaya Assembly poll ended at 4 p.m. on Saturday. Voting would be held in 59 of the 60 Assembly constituencies in 12 districts under a heavy security cover on Monday.

The polling would not be held in Sohiong Assembly Constituency in East Khasi Hills district following the death of United Democratic Party (UDP) candidate H. Donkupar Roy Lyngdoh, who died on February 20 due to illness.

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F.R. Kharkongor said that movement of polling parties to the 3419 polling stations across 59 Assembly constituencies started on Saturday.

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New Delhi(Agencies):

A temple and a mosque in the national capital’s ITO area were demolished by the Public Works Department (PWD) as a part of its anti-encroachment drive. A large number of police personnel have been deployed in the area to maintain law and order situation.

Saturday’s development comes after the Delhi High Court on Thursday directed the PWD to carry out work

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to make a pedestrian pathway at “Jheel ka Piao” on Mathura Road, ITO, even if it called for demolishing a portion of the temple and the mosque. The single judge bench of Justice Prathiba Singh observed that the issue was concerning the development of a pathway on an extremely busy road wherein documents and other photographs show that the temple and the mosque are abutting the pedestrian pathway.