Over 6 lakh new voters or first time voters are going to cast their votes in Assam during the forthcoming assembly polls which will be held on April 4 and April 11.
Assam’s Chief electoral Officer Vijendra said this while addressing the media on Friday evening and added that there are 6,00,076 new voters in the State (between the age group of 18 to 19 years) out of the total 1.98 crore electorates in the State.
The CEO further said that a total of 2,20,000 personnel including 60,000 security personnel will conduct the polls in Assam in two phases. While the first phase of polls in Assam will take place on April 4 covering 65 assembly constituencies in Assam, the second phase of the poll will be held on April 11 covering 61 assembly constituencies.
Assam’s Chief Electoral Officer Vijendra said that polls will be conducted in 24,888 polling stations across the State. “While the first phase of polling will be conducted in 12,190 polling stations, polls will be conducted in 12,698 polling stations in the second phase of polling,” said Vijendra while addressing the media on Friday.
Vijendra said that there will be video recording 2549 polling stations and webcasting will be done in 865 polling stations across the State. He said that there will also be video surveillance teams in each constituencies during the process who will monitor the activities of the candidates and the whole situation.
“The ECI has also directed that there will be 76 general observers for the poll in Assam followed by 46 expenditure observers, who will monitor the expenditure of the candidates. The limit for each candidate in a constituency is Rs28 lakh,” he added.
“Apart from this, there are a total of 1,36,448 D voters of doubtful voters in Assam. The names of the doubtful voters are included in the electoral rolls but they cannot cast their votes,” Vijendra said.
“We are instructed not to divulge the details of security deployment but there will be roughly 60,000 security personnel who would be deployed across the State for smooth conduction of the polling process. Out of the total polling stations, 3,663 have been marked as hyper sensitive and 7,629 have been identified as sensitive,” said Additional DGP (law and order) SN Singh.