Of Polling in Phase II....

The second phase of elections went off peacefully in the northeastern states of Nagaland, Manipur, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh. While the outer region of Manipur saw an 80 per cent voter turnout, 71 per cent turned up to cast their vote in Nagaland, while Meghalaya and Arunachal witnessed a 64 per cent and 55 per cent turnout respectively.
Voting in the four states marked the second phase of the country’s 10-phase poll that will see 814 million Indians exercise their franchise to elect 543 members to the Lok Sabha.
Polling was held for two Lok Sabha seats each in Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh, one of the two seats in Manipur and the lone Lok Sabha seat in Nagaland.
Balloting was also held for 49 seats of the Arunachal assembly.
In Arunachal, around 71 per cent of voters cast their ballot in simultaneous elections to the two Lok Sabha seats and the assembly, even as voting was suspended in four polling booths after miscreants burnt down poll materials in Sarli in Kurung Kumey district.
In the assembly polls, 11 Congress candidates, including Chief Minister Nabam Tuki and two cabinet colleagues Tanga Bayaling and Pema Khandu, have already won without a fight. Hence, voting was held for the remaining 49 seats.
BJP leader Kiren Rijiju is fighting against sitting Congress member Takam Sanjoy from Arunachal West, while union minister and Congress leader Ninong Ering, who is re-contesting from Arunachal East, faces BJP's Tapir Gao.