Special camps held again at poll booths
Bhopal:On the directives of Election Commission of India
(ECI) special camps were held again at polling booths where
voters could not get Form-6 to get names included in electoral
rolls in earlier camps on March 9. On the commission’s directive, second camps were held at these polling booths on Sunday.
In this way, the commission gave yet another chance to voters to get their names included in electoral rolls. On the occasion,
Booth level Officers (BlOs) were not only present carrying Form-6, but also assisted voters to fill up their forms. The commission has directed BlOs to physically verify the forms and submit the
same to ERO. The ERO will get these names included within 11 days (by March 27) and submit his report to the commission the same day.
24-hr vigil on country-made liquor
Bhopal: In view of the lok Sabha elections in the State,
24-hour vigil is being maintained on all country-made liquor,
IMFl and beer distilleries. For this, CCTV cameras have been installed on the entry-exit gates of every distilling unit. Besides, vigil is also being maintained on storages round the clock.
Flying squads and Statics Surveillance Teams have also been constituted for monitoring. Office of the Excise Commissioner has directed all District Excise Officers to undertake intensive monitoring of all liquor shops from 5 days before polling. Directives have been given to ensure regular monitoring of the liquor shops where sale of liquor has increased by 50 percent compared to last year. The commission has appointed
Additional Excise Commissioner DR Jauhari as the State Nodal Officer, who will submit regular reports to Chief Electoral Officer as directed by the commission. All country-made liquor, IMFl and beer distilleries, which send their products to other states, have been asked to give its regular information to the Nodal Officer.
‘Maintain acCounts of candidates DURING POllS’
Bhopal: Necessary directives have been given to lead Bank Managers in districts to open and maintain bank accounts of candidates during the lok Sabha elections. State’s nodal
officer, lead Bank Central Bank of India and District lead Bank Managers will provide a collective report about suspicious transactions daily to the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer and District Election Officer as per norms laid down by Election Commission. It has been said in the directives that bank Managers will give information about transaction of Rs one lakh or more from bank accounts of political parties and their dependents. At the State-level, lead Bank Manager will hold review meetings with other banks every Tuesday and Friday and send its report to the CEO. Bank managers have been asked to give immediate information about fake currency notes to District Election Officer. lead Bank Manager of Central Bank of India DK Shrivastava has been appointed as State-level Nodal Officer.
494 EXTRA poll booths sanctioned for lS POllS
Bhopal: Election Commission of India (ECI) has accorded
sanction to proposal of setting up 494 auxiliary polling centres set up for lok Sabha elections in the State. Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Jaideep Govind has directed district election officers to ensure all necessary arrangements at these auxiliary polling centres. So far, sanction has been accorded to 636 auxiliary
polling booths. Of these, 21 auxiliary polling centres have been sanctioned in Morena district, Gwalior 32, Datia 21,
Guna 6, Sagar 2, Chhatarpur 13, Panna 10, Satna 29, Rewa 20 and 14 auxiliary polling booths have been sanctioned in Sidhi district. Similarly, 16 auxiliary polling centres have been sanctioned in Singrauli district, 29 Jabalpur, 2 Dindori, 13 Seoni, 13 Narsinghpur, 5 Vidisha, 43 Bhopal, 8 Sehore, 8 Rajgarh and 3 new auxiliary polling centres have been sanctioned in Agar-Malwa district. The commission has also sanctioned 2 auxiliary polling centres in Burhanpur, 165 Indore, 11 Ujjain and 8 auxiliary polling centres have been sanctioned in Mandsaur district. The state has total 53 thousand 946 polling booths where elections will be held in 29 lok Sabha constituencies in 3 rounds.
Cong MP wants voting through ballot papers
Bhopal:Congress MP Sajjan Singh Verma has urged the Election Commission to conduct the lok Sabha polls using ballot papers instead of Electronic Voting Machines due to possibility of technical glitches in such machines. The EVMs often encountered technical problems, as was evident in the recently-held Assembly elections in five states where many voters could not exercise their franchise and re-polling had to be conducted at many booths, Verma said last evening while addressing a meeting in Madhya Pradesh's Agar Malwa district. The US had withdrawn EVMs much before due to technical problems in such machines, the MP said, while urging the Chief Election Commissioner to conduct lok Sabha elections through ballot paper instead of EVMs in his Dewas parliamentary constituency. Earlier, a few political parties had also raised the issue of technical problems in use of EVMs.
JD(U) forms alliance with GGP, 2 others in MP
Bhopal: Janata Dal United JD (U), Gondwana Gnatantra
Party (GGP), Bahujan Sangharsh Dal and Aadijan Mukti
Sena have joined hands to contest the lok Sabha polls in 20
of the 29 seats in Madhya Pradesh. "We have decided to fight the polls jointly in Madhya Pradesh to provide a viable alternative to both Congress and BJP," JD(U) state president Govind Yadav said here on Sunday. GGP will field candidates in Sagar, Damoh, Satna, Sidhi, Shahdol (ST), Mandla (ST), Balaghat, Chhindwara, Hoshangabad, Vidisha, Betul (ST) and Khandwa. The JD (U) will field candidates from Bhopal, Rewa, Jabalpur, Khajuraho and Ratlam (ST). The Bahujan Sangarsh Dal candidates would contest from Bhind (SC) while Aadijan Mukti Sena from Dhar (ST) and Khargone (ST), Yadav said.