The executive magistrate and police officer during their joint visit should ensure that urban body elections are completed freely, fairly and peacefully. These orders were given by collector P Narhari and SSP Santosh Kumar Singh in a meeting of revenue and police officers.
In a meeting held in assembly hall of collectorate on Monday, the collector said that three and a half Assembly constituencies come under Municipal Corporation, while four and a half Assembly constituencies come under local body of the district. Nearly 9 lakh voters have the right to cast their vote in the election. So the election should be taken seriously.
The collector said that in the last municipal elections 82 per cent polling took place in Gwalior, but the polling this time can go up. The collector also said that sunset is made early in this season so enough arrangements should be made inside and outside the polling center.
SSP Santosh Kumar Singh said that strict action should be taken against criminal and anti-social elements. He also said that the revenue and police officers should jointly take round to allow the free, fair and peaceful polling to take place on November 28 in Gwalior and December 2 in other places of district.
ADM Vidisha Mukherjee gave detail information through power point presentation. The municipal corporation additional collector Tarun Bhatnagar, additional SP VK Jain, Addl SP (Rural) Yogeshwar Sharma, Addl SP Pratibha Mathew, Deputy District election officer Anurag Saxena and others were present in the meeting.