New Delhi: There were few takers in the Maharashtra and Haryana Assembly polls for the ‘None of the Above’ option which was introduced by the Election Commission last year following a Supreme Court judgement.
According to figures made available by the poll body, 4,60,741 voters opted for the NOTA option in Maharashtra, which has 288 Assembly constituencies, while 53,381 electors used the provision in the voting for the 90 seats in Haryana.
Percentage-wise, it was 0.9 per cent of the voters who hit the NOTA button in Maharashtra with Haryana seeing 0.4 per cent of the electors going for that option. (PTI)
