The ongoing drilling work to reach the 40 trapped workers inside the Silkyara tunnel was halted on Saturday after the rescuers bored 25 metres into the rubble, a top official said.
The capital city- Bhopal, recorded 59.19 per cent of voter turnout, while Chhindwara recorded 78.85 per cent, Damoh at 73.83 per cent, Dhar at 72.35 per cent, Dindori at 78.30 per cent, Datia at 69.66 per cent, Indore at 64.95 per cent and Jhabua at 73.10 per cent.
Relief and rescue operations are underway for the sixth day on a war footing at Silkyara Tunnel, where 40 labourers were trapped following the collapse of the under-construction tunnel.
As voting for Madhya Pradesh began on Friday, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and son of Kailash Vijayvargiya, Akash Vijayvargiya, said "We will form the government comfortably and run it efficiently".
Ahead of voting for the assembly election in Madhya Pradesh, a clash broke out between workers of the Congress and the BJP in Indore's Rau assembly constituency on Thursday night, said police.
Indore Police have registered cases against the workers of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress following the clashes over distributing gifts among the public ahead of the Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls.
Polling parties left for their centres in the nine assembly constituencies of Indore district in Madhya Pradesh on Thursday carrying material ahead of assembly polls on Friday.
"The main motive of the flag march is that people can vote freely in the Assembly elections and exercise their constitutional rights... In critical areas, we are talking to people to make them feel safe," DCP Abhishek Anand told ANI.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami participated in a public meeting organized by Pravasi Uttarakhandi Samaj in Madhya Pradesh's Indore on Wednesday.
After completing the roadshow in Madhya Pradesh's Indore, Prime Minister Narendra Modi instructed BJP Karyakartas to ensure a quick clean-up. True to Indore's reputation as India's cleanest city, the entire stretch was cleaned up in a matter of hours.
People participated in the Hingot war, in which two groups hurled burning 'hingots' at each other, a day after Diwali as part of a tradition at Gautampura, Indore.