The returning officer of Hazaribagh parliamentary constituency DC Sunil Kumar has directed all the political parties to withdraw their posters, banners, hoardings etc. within three days from the public places. He had also directed to the office bearers of the parties to clean the walls having messages of their parties.
On the other hand, SP Manoj Kaushik has appealed to all the warranties to take bail as soon as possible and to licensee fire arms owners to deposit their arms in their police stations. After the announcement of parliamentary election 2014 the district and police administration organised a joint PC on Wednesday evening in which both DC and SP claimed that they are ready to organise peaceful and free and fair, poll here at Hazaribagh.
Both DC and SP informed that the election control room will become functional from March 6 and it will work 24x7. SP said that a DSP will be on duty at control room always however in emergency people can contact him too on his mobile. DC Sunil Kumar said that in every block, three expenditure monitoring committee has been formed along with three flying squads and videographers’ teams. For proper implementation of the Model Code of Conduct a committee has been constituted which will oversee the do’s and don’ts. A media committee has also been formed to keep eyes on advertisements and paid news etc.
Returning officer Sunil Kumar said that this time they have launched a systematic awareness empowerment program to aware the voters and for it we have selected one student from each college. From 8th March to 8th April a special drive will go on to include the names of those voters who are genuine and whose names are not in the list. On 9th April subsidiary voter list will be issued, he added.
For Hazaribagh parliamentary constituency filling of nomination will start with the issue of notification on March 15 and it will go on till March 22. Voting would take place on April 10 on 1,782 booths.