JALPAIGURI/MALDA, April 30: The Terai Dooars Committee of the Akhil Baratiya Adivasi Vikas Parishad's poll boycott call took its toll in the Alipurduar Lok Sabha constituency today. Following the boycott call, no vote was cast in 17 booths of the constituency today. The ABAVP Terai-Dooars Coordination Committee is pleased with the low voter turnout. President Mr John Barla said: “We are happy that the Adivasis of the Dooars responded to our call. It is a moral victory for us."
Adivasi voters abstaining from the election accounted for a low turnout in several booths of Phansidewa and Naxalbari-Matigara Assembly segments in the Darjeeling Lok Sabha constituency. Voting was very poor in the Bijlimoni Hindi High School booth (No. 27/117) at Pahsidewa. According to the presiding officer, Mr Subhash Sinha, only 34 voters out of 871 electorate of the booth voted. The situation was even worse in three booths in the Matigara-Naxalbari Assembly segment. Only four to 10 voters cast their votes in booth nos 25/36, 25/ 45, 25/46, informed the Darjeeling district information officer Mr Jagadish Roy.
Meanwhile, voters of the Bhutni Diara island in Manikchak block of South Malda parliamentary constituency too boycotted poll demanding basic amenities and bridge on the Fulohar River. According to district officials, voters of more than 10 polling stations boycotted the polls in the island. n SNS
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