Bengaluru May 12 (IANS) Voting began across Karnataka on Saturday to elect its 15th legislative assembly amid tight security and heightened vigil.
"A single-phase polling began at 7.00 a.m. in 222 of the 224 assembly constituencies including 36 reserved for the Scheduled Castes (SC) and 15 for the Scheduled Tribes (ST) " said an official.
Polling in Bengaluru s Raja Rajeshwari Nagar segment has been postponed to May 28 in the voter ID cards case and countermanded in the city s Jayanagar seat following the death of BJP contestant B.N. Vijaya Kumar on May 4.
The state has over 5.07-crore electorate including 2.62-crore men and 2.5-crore women. New voters are 15 42 000 in the 18-19 age group.
Voting is being held in 58 008 polling stations of 30 districts across the state with 600 of them as pink booths manned by all-women personnel and 28 ethnic booths.
--IANS
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