There are 255 polling centres and 414 polling stations for the election. Regarding security in the bypoll, the officials said, "Webcasting will be conducted at 210 polling stations and videography at 25 stations. Micro-observers are deployed at 71 polling centres, with nine flying squads, nine static surveillance teams, six video surveillance teams, two super zonal magistrates, four zonal magistrates and 41 sector magistrates. Voting will be conducted with the assistance of civil police, PAC, and paramilitary forces."
The seat is reserved for the Scheduled Castes (SC) and has an elector base of 3,70,829. More than 1.93 lakh male voters, and over 1.78 lakh female voters and eight third-gender people are registered to vote for the bypoll. There are 4,811 first-time voters in the assembly constituency.
The stakes in the bypoll in Milkipur were raised by SP's Awadhesh Prasad's surprise win from Faizabad in last year's Lok Sabha polls that came just months after the consecration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya. He represented the assembly seat until he won the Lok Sabha poll, which necessitated the bypoll at the seat.
The result for the assembly seat will be declared on February 8 after the vote counting on the same day.
(With PTI Inputs)
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