- विज्ञापन -
Chandigarh: A delegation of the Election Commission of India reviewed the poll preparedness in Haryana on Monday ahead of the assembly elections slated to be held on October 5.
According to an official statement, the delegation, which included Deputy Election Commissioner Hridesh Kumar, Secretary KP Singh, Principal Secretary Avinash Kumar and SB Joshi, held a meeting with the officials in Chandigarh.
Divisional Commissioners, IG Police Range, Deputy Commissioners-cum-DEOs, Police Commissioners and SPs, MC Commissioner, General Observers, Police Observers and Expenditure Observers from 11 districts attended the meeting. Haryana’s Chief Electoral Officer, Pankaj Agarwal and State Police Nodal Officer, Saurabh Singh, were also present at the meeting.
As per the statement, the commission directed the officials to ensure the conduct of free and fair elections by maintaining a good law and order situation and stressed maintaining good health of the electoral roll with the removal of dead and shifted voters.
Further, it directed to provide minimum assured facility at the pooling booths along with a conducive environment to encourage voter turnout. DEOs were directed to be equally accessible to all the political parties and to resolve promptly the grievances related to various election-related activities, the release mentioned.
In the meeting, Deputy Election Commissioner Hirdesh Kumar reviewed the marking of electoral rolls, the time plan for preparing ASD (absentee, shifted, duplicate or dead) lists, the distribution of voter slips, the Electoral Photo Identity Cards (EPIC) distribution, and addressing any major complaint related to electoral rolls, the statement added.
He stated that the printing of pending EPIC cards should be pursued with the printer and the EPIC cards should be distributed by September 30. The BLOs can be engaged for ensuring compliance with this task. The marked copy of voter lists should be prepared as per the instructions. Also, the copies of the electoral rolls handed over to the candidates should match with the marked electoral rolls.
The team emphasized the importance of ensuring all polling stations are fully equipped with the necessary facilities.
