Garhwal Commissioner Vinod Sharma and Garhwal DIG Pushpak Jyoti held a meeting with the administrative and police officers in Haridwar on Saturday and directed them to implement the model code of conduct released by Election of Commission of India strictly. Sharma directed the officers to coordinate among themselves and operate in perfect sync to ensure peaceful Assembly election. He also stressed on them functioning sans any bias. The administrative officers were directed to conduct video-graph rallies to be staged by the candidates of various political parties and even the independent candidates in their jurisdictional limits.
DIG on his part asked the police officers to go for vigorous vehicle checking drives, particularly at inter-district posts or inter-state posts in coordination with the neighbouring police station officers. He warned them against being lenient with the disruptive elements and asked them to book them under 107/116 of CrPC . He further instructed the police officers to hold periodic meetings with the members of gram suraksha samiti aside from senior citizens and retired police men and seek their cooperation to ensure trouble free election. Police station officers were asked to clamp down on the criminal gangs. Besides, they need to be vigilant on the convicts who come out of the jails on parole, he said. He further stressed on constant checking at the inter-state barriers through deployment of flying squad and static surveillance. Besides, he asked them to start printing postal ballots at the earliest aside from identifying the ‘critical’ and ‘sensitive’ polling stations and booths to ensure a glitch free election.