Itanagar, April 17: A month-long election campaigning for Lok Sabha and assembly elections in Arunachal Pradesh ended on Wednesday.

The two Lok Sabha seats Arunachal West and Arunachal East Parliamentary constituencies with 50 assembly seats would be going to poll on April 19.

A total of 8.92,694 voters including 4,54,256 women, will decide the fate of 133 candidates in the fray for the 50 assembly seats and 14 candidates for the two Lok Sabha seats.

Of the 133 candidates, 50 has been fielded by the ruling BJP, 19 by the opposition Congress, 14 by the Nationalist Congress Party , 20 by the National People’s Party , 11 by the People’s Party of Arunachal and the remaining by the other local parties and independents.

Of the total 60 assembly seats in the state, BJP candidates in 10 seats including Chief Minister Pema Khandu in Mukto seat and Deputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein in Chowkham seat, won unopposed.

Though there are 14 candidates contesting in the two Lok Sabha seats, the main contest is expected to be between Union minister Kiren Rijiju and state Congress president and former chief minister Nabam Tuki for the Arunachal West seat while in the Arunachal East seat the main fight would be between the BJP’s sitting MP Tapir Gao and ther Congress’ Bosiram Siram, a former minister.

In all 11,130 polling officials have been deployed to conduct the elections while 6,874 EVMs would be used for the polls.

The Union Home Ministry has provided 80 companies 7500 personnel of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) to manage the law and order situation.

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