New Delhi, Aug. 3 -- The counting of votes for the Bankipur Assembly bypoll in Bihar will begin shortly.

A low voter turnout of over 34 per cent was registered in the 30 July bypoll on to Bihar's Bankipur seat where Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor, making his electoral debut, has challenged decades of BJP dominance.

The electoral fate of 26 candidates, including Kishor, BJP's Neeraj Kumar Sinha and Rekha Gupta of the RJD, will be decided today. The seat witnessed a low turnout of over 34 percent on Thursday.

According to the EC, the voter turnout stood at only 34.24 per cent, a drop of more than seven per cent compared with 41.45 per cent in the assembly polls of November last year.

The entry of Kishor, a former poll strategi...