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A leader of the Janata Samajbadi Party has been arrested from the Jabdi voting center in Devtal Rural Municipality-7,Bara on Sunday. A police team deployed to protect the ballot box apprehended Janata Samajbadi Party leader and District Coordination Committee member Ram Sagar Yadav this morning. Police said that they detained Yadav after he tried to cast two ballot papers having swastik stamp. He has been sent to the District Police Office, Bara. Meanwhile, the JSP leaders have tried to capture the booth at the voting center in Inaruwa of Mahagadhimai Municipality-2, Bara. Journalists have also been barred from entering the voting center.

Voting started peacefully in Bara-2 on Sunday. The Election Commission said that the voting that started at 7 am will continue till 5 pm today. Bara-2 has remained vacant after Ram Sahaya Prasad Yadav was elected to the post of Vice-President. The constituency has a total of 102, 548 eligible voters. There are 82 polling stations in the constituency. There are 67 sensitive voting centers out of 137 in the constituency. Upendra Yadav of Janata Samajbadi Party, Shiva Chandra Kushawaha of Janamat Party, Purushottam Paudel of CPN-UML, Ramesh Kharel of Rastriya Swatantra Party, Arun Gyawali of Aam Janata Party among others are in the fray. Among the 34 candidates in Bara, 24 have filed their nominations as independent candidates.  

Voting began in Chitwan constituency 2 on Sunday. Voting has started in all 138 polling centers of 43 polling stations at 7 am, said assistant returning officer Ishwori Acharya. There was an encouraging participation of voters as they queued to exercise their franchise braving hot temperature. The constituency has a total of 124,695 eligible voters (63,291 women, 61,403 men and one third gender). The main competitors from the constituency are Nepali Congress Jit Narayan Shrestha from the democratic-left alliance, CPN-UML's Ram Prasad Neupane and Rastriya Swatantra Party's Rabi Lamichhane. Of them, Shrestha is casting his vote from the polling center at Chartumukhi Secondary School at Shaktikhor while Neupane and Lamichhane are missing in the voter roll, it has been said. Lamichhane vacated the House of Representatives in a citizenship issue.

Voting began in Tanahun constituency 1 on Sunday. Voting has started in all 152 polling centers under the constituency at 7 am in a peaceful manner, said Hari Prasad Dhakal, chief of the district election office, Tanahun. People can cast their vote until 5 pm today. Tight security arrangements have been made for the by-election, he said. Nepali Congress candidate Gobinda Bhattarai is scheduled to cast his vote from the polling center at Tanahun Basic Secondary School in Byas Municipality-11. CPN-UML candidate Sarbendra Khanal and Rastriya Swatantra Party's Dr Swarnim Wagle are deprived of exercising their franchise as their name is not listed on the voter roll. Following the voting, the filled ballot boxes will be transported to Damauli in the presence of the representatives of various political parties, Min Bahadur Kunwar, assistant returning officer at the office of chief election officer. After the collection of ballot boxes, an all-party meeting will be called to count votes, he added. Nepali Congress's Ramchandra Paudel vacated the House of Representatives seat after being elected third President of the country. The main competitors for the seat are Bhattarai, Khanal and Wagle. The constituency has a total of 123,305 eligible voters. In view of the voting, vehicle has been halted along Tanahun-1 section under the Prithivi Highway and local roads from 5 am to 6 pm today. However, fire engines, ambulances, hearses and vehicles carrying water, milk, garbage, health workers and journalists who have carried press pass from the Department of Information and Broadcasting will be allowed.