Ahead of the October 21 Assembly polls, Haryana has identified 2,923 polling stations as ''vulnerable'' and 83 as ''critical''.
Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order), Navdeep Singh Virk on Wednesday said elaborate security arrangements are being made for peaceful and incident-free polling.
"Civil administration and police authorities in Haryana, after a detailed joint exercise, have identified 83 polling stations in 60 locations as ''critical'' and 2,923 polling stations in 1,419 locations as ''vulnerable'' for the forthcoming Assembly polls. "All such polling stations would be covered by either deployment of Central Paramilitary Forces, micro observers, webcasting etc or a combination of these," Virk said in a statement.
''Critical'' and ''vulnerable'' refers to polling booths where the Election Commission thinks voters can be influenced by outside factors, an official explained.
Elaborating about critical polling stations, Virk said the Kurukshetra district has the maximum 14 polling booths followed by 10 each in Hisar and Palwal, seven each in Mewat, Hansi, Sirsa and Panipat, five each in Jind and Bhiwani, three each in Yamunanagar and Dadri, two in Mahendergarh and one each in Gurugram and Kaithal.
He said among the ''vulnerable'' polling stations, Mewat district has the maximum 342 booths followed by Gurugram, Sirsa and Jhajjar with the 308, 292 and 254 respectively.
Other polling stations identified as vulnerable include 199 in Faridabad, 143 in Panipat, 142 in Ambala, 141 each in Rohtak and Fatehabad, 119 in Kurukshetra, 98 in Panchkula, 78 in Yamunanagar, 29 in kaithal, 24 in Karnal, 64 in Sonipat, 29 in Jind, 49 in Hisar, 46 in Hansi, 85 in Bhiwani, 91 in Dadri, 107 in Mahendergarh, 60 in Rewari and 82 in Palwal, he said.
The state has a total of around 19,500 polling stations in 10,309 locations.
CEO ISSUES DIRECTIONS ON GOVT ACCOMMODATION
Haryana chief electoral officer Anurag Aggarwal on Wednesday said that as the model code of conduct is enforced in the state for Assembly elections 2019, the ruling party or its candidates will not have a monopoly on the allotment of Rest Houses, Dak Bunglow, Circuit House and other government houses.
He said that rather the allocation of the same can be done to other political parties and candidates in an unbiased manner provided that these places should not be used for election purpose, including opening camp offices or for holding any kind of public meetings.
Aggarwal further said that if any type of informal meeting is held by the members of any political parties in such premises, that too would be considered as a violation of the model code of conduct.
He said that if the person who is allowed to stay in the Rest House, Dak Bunglow, Circuit House, and uses a vehicle during his stay, then he will not be allowed to take more than two vehicles inside the rest, Circuit house and Dak Banglow premises and the availability of rooms in these houses to any person shall not exceed more than 48 hours.
He further informed that 48 hours before the completion of the polling process, no permission will be given to stay in the rest house, Dak Bunglow, Circut House.