Bihar Assembly Polls: 4,372 tables, 18,000 agents gear up for counting today

New Delhi: The high voltage election in Bihar will wrap up today with counting of votes from 8 am on, starting first with postal ballots and EVMs from 8.30 AM. Counting of Postal ballots, however, will be completed before the penultimate round of EVM counting, as per recent ECI instructions and in keeping with a long-standing demand by the Opposition parties.

Alongside, amid fresh political bickering over election sanctity, the ECI underlined on Thursday that during EVM counting, Control Units are brought to the counting tables round wise and shown to the counting agents to verify that the seals are intact and serial numbers match the records in Form 17C (Part I).

Over 18,000 counting agents have been appointed in Bihar by various candidates to oversee the counting process.