nagpur the voting for the nagpur division graduates constituency would be held on tuesday by 5pm the fate of bjp candidate sandip joshi and his congress rival abhijit wanjari would be sealed the counting will take place on thursdayvoting will take place through the oldfashioned ballot papers as it is preferential type the voter has to mark his or her first preference for a candidate by writing 1 against the candidates name the voter can give second preference to another candidate by writing 2 against his name and so onthis constituency has been the bastion of bjp since more than 50 years baban taywade of congress tried to storm it unsuccessfully twice this time wanjari is trying his luckeven though wanjari is the official candidate of the maha vikas aghadi mva it is mostly congress leaders who are canvassing for him moreover congress leaders from outside nagpur division have shown much interest in the electionon the other hand bjp has pulled out all stops to win the election while the candidate was decided at the last moment the party was preparing for it since months union minister nitin gadkari former chief minister devendra fadnavis leader of opposition in legislative council pravin darekar former finance minister sudhir mungantiwar and others have campaigned for joshi on sunday a grand meeting of graduate voters was held it was addressed by gadkari fadnavis and mungantiwarwanjari is covertly playing the obc card he is a teli while joshi is a brahmin bjp is countering it by pointing out that prime minister narendra modi a teli had finalized joshis ticket teli leaders like wardha mp ramdas tadas former energy minister chandrashekhar bawankule former mla charan waghmare etc have canvassed for joshi in a meeting of the teli community tadas levelled serious allegations against the wanjari familybjp leaders point out that taywade had twice played the obc card but was unsuccessful wanjari owns a large number of educational institutes and he is using their machinerythe other major candidates in the fray are rahul wankhede of vanchit bahujan aghadi vba atul khobragade an independent supported by the aam admi party aap and nitin ronghe who is contesting on the issue of statehood to vidarbhawanjaris fate depends to a large extent on the number of dalit votes wankhede and khobragade poll if dalit voters favour either of the candidate then wanjari will sufferaccording to election experts there are 206 lakh voters in this constituency voting is expected to be around 50 the candidate who polls 50000 first preference votes will be safely homehow to vote use violet sketch pen to be given along with ballot paper do not use your own pen or pencil else vote will be deemed invalid write 1 in the box printed beside the name of the candidate you wish to vote for if you wish to vote for another candidate too write 2 in the box besides his name and so on do not give the same preference to two or more candidates