Defying a call by Maoists to boycott the polls, an estimated 51 per cent electorate on Monday cast their votes in 42 Assembly seats in Bihar, which saw stray incidents of landmine blast and bomb explosion. Voters ignored the poll boycott call with turnouts ranging up to 55 per cent in Alauli (SC) and 54 per cent in Begusarai and above 50 per cent in Bachwara, Teghra and Jhajha, in the Maoist belt which figured in the fourth phase of polling.
Special: Bihar polls
Image: Security personnel keep a vigil as voters wait to cast their ballots during the fourth phase of Bihar Assembly polls outside a polling station in Bhagalpur on Monday, Nov 1, 2010. (Photographs copyright PTI)
