UP polls: IIT-Kanpur staffers exercise franchise

KANPUR: Hundreds of IIT-Kanpur staff and teachers also used their right to franchise at two polling booths set up inside the institute's campus. The rush of IITians was witnessed at the campus school and at type I community centre polling booths.
It is worth mentioning here that IIT-Kanpur falls in Kalyanpur assembly constituency. From this seat, Nirmal Tiwari of BSP, Devi Tiwari of Congress, Premlata Katiyar of BJP and Satish Nigam of SP were contesting the election.The IITians sealed the fate of these candidates in the EVMs on Thursday.
After coming out from the polling booths that were heavily guarded by the para-military staff on duty, the IITians showed their inked fingers after exercising their franchise.
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