<p>Bypoll to the Salt Assembly seat in Uttarakhand's Almora district began Saturday morning with people queuing up outside polling booths to cast their votes.</p>.<p>Elaborate security arrangements have been made to ensure peaceful polling in the constituency, Almora District Magistrate Nitin Singh Bhadauria said.</p>.<p>Polling began at 7 am and will go on till 5 pm, he said.</p>.<p>The bypoll to the seat was necessitated after the death of sitting BJP MLA Surendra Singh Jeena due to Covid-19 in November last year.</p>.<p>The BJP has fielded his elder brother Mahesh Jeena from the seat against Congress' Ganga Pancholi.</p>.<p>There are 95,241 voters in the Salt assembly constituency, out of which 48,682 are male and 46,559 female. </p>
<p>Bypoll to the Salt Assembly seat in Uttarakhand's Almora district began Saturday morning with people queuing up outside polling booths to cast their votes.</p>.<p>Elaborate security arrangements have been made to ensure peaceful polling in the constituency, Almora District Magistrate Nitin Singh Bhadauria said.</p>.<p>Polling began at 7 am and will go on till 5 pm, he said.</p>.<p>The bypoll to the seat was necessitated after the death of sitting BJP MLA Surendra Singh Jeena due to Covid-19 in November last year.</p>.<p>The BJP has fielded his elder brother Mahesh Jeena from the seat against Congress' Ganga Pancholi.</p>.<p>There are 95,241 voters in the Salt assembly constituency, out of which 48,682 are male and 46,559 female. </p>