Nearly 68 per cent of the 3.62 crore-strong electorate today turned out to vote in Rajasthan Assembly election that witnessed stray incidents of caste violence and malfunctioning of Electronic Voting Machines.
A Central Reserve Police Force jawan fired in the air to disperse a mob at Badikhera village under Ladpura constituency of Kota district but no one was hurt, director-general of state police K S Bains told
PTI.
A supporter of former Minister and expelled Bharatiya Janata Party leader K L Meena allegedly opened fire at a group of Gujjar voters who were on their way to a polling booth near Balghat in Todabheem constituency injuring one person, officials said.
"The polling percentage is expected to be between 65 to 68 percentage as we are still compiling the figures," election
commission officials
said. A 68 per cent turnout was registered in the 2003 Assembly elections.