4th phase of India vote today

IANS, Guwahati :Over 2.9 million people will Saturday exercise their democratic right to elect three members to the Lok Sabha from Assam.Polling will be held for three Lok Sabha constituencies – Silchar, Karimganj and Diphu (Autonomous District). In the first phase April 7, polls were held for five Lok Sabha constituencies from the state.While Karimganj is reserved for the Schedule Castes, Diphu (Autonomous District) is reserved for the Scheduled Tribes. There are 37 candidates in the fray for the second phase of polls. A total of 29,26,762 electors, including 14,00,594 females, are expected to cast their votes at 3,698 polling stations across the three constituencies.Silchar has 17 candidates, including seven Independents, in fray. The BJP’s current MP Kabindra Purkayastha, Congress legislator Sushmita Deb from the Silchar assembly constituency, who is the daughter of veteran Congress leader and former union minister Santosh Mohan Deb, and Kutub Ahmed Mazumder of the AIUDF are the major contestants.