As curtains came down on poll campaigning at 5 pm on Sunday, Chhattisgarh’s Chief Election Officer Sunil Kumar Kujur said that a total of 1,398 polling centres out of a total of 18,015 polling centres in the second phase of polls have been declared as ‘ultra sensitive’ A total of 4,594 polling centres have been declared as ‘sensitive’ , he said while addressing a news conference here.
He said that a total of 665 auxiliary polling centers have been established for the second phase of polls. Kujur said that a total of 72 ‘General Observers’, 19 ‘Police Observers’, 22 ‘Expenditure Surveyors’ and 72 ‘Assistant Expenditure Surveyors’ had been appointed for the rest of the 72 Assembly seats going to polls during the second phase.
He said that the highest number of candidates in the poll fray are in Raipur (South) constituency at 38 and lowest at Saraipali at 5. “There are 20,000 polling teams formed with the number of employees on poll duty at 80,000.” Kujur said that there are 20,957 ‘ballot units’ (EVMs) and 18,015 ‘control units’ being utilised for the second phase of polls. This apart, there are 216 flying squads, 75 video surveillance teams which would be monitoring the poll process during the second phase of polls in the State.