The region was earlier a stronghold of Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), and whether she gets the CM’s chair or not will depend on how the BSP does in these 73 seats. Average polling in Noida is 30 percent, in Dadri 45 and 46 percent in Jewar till 1pm says election commission. 9:30am: Gagan Som, BJP’s Sangeet Som’s brother, held by police because he was carrying a pistol to the polling booth of Faridpur village in Sardhana constituency. (Vaibhav Jha/Hindustan Times)8:50am: 45-year-old Munesh at sector 22 polling booth along with her husband Rajveer, 50, to cast their votes. Voters began queuing up at polling booth early on Saturday morning.

Source: Hindustan Times February 11, 2017 01:48 UTC