Indian Army in collaboration with Aadhunik India Foundation organised an Aginveer pre-recruitment training camp for Adivasi and tea garden youths at Hatigarh Army camp in Assam's Udalguri district.
The District Football Association (DFA) conducted selection trials for U-14 (boys) and U-16 (boys) on Saturday to represent the West Garo Hills District team. This trial was held in preparation to scheduled Inter District Youth League.
BSF troops maintained security measures and assisted local border residents, elderly, and special abled individuals in reaching the election booths to cast their votes without hindrance.
The atmosphere at the polling stations was peaceful and voters posed with their inked fingers after casting their ballots. The district administration had made elaborate arrangements to ensure smooth functioning in all the 1,923 polling stations of the constituency.
The voting percentage for Tura Lok Sabha seat crossed the 76 percent mark by the time polls closed on April 19th evening which is a drop of 5 percent in comparison to the last Lok Sabha elections that took place in 2019 when Agatha K Sangma of the NPP trounced Mukul Sangma of the Congress by a margin of 64,000 votes in which polling was 81.38 percent.
In various constituencies, the voting percentages varied, with notable figures including 47.37% in Namchi-Singhithang, 50.33% in Dzongu, and 41.46% in Maneybong-Dentam
Congress Jorhat candidate Gaurav Gogoi exercised his vote after offering prayers in front of the portrait of his late father and former chief minister Tarun Gogoi.
