The Ghaziabad district administration has appealed the voters to check their names in the voter list in a (Matdaan Chaupal) polling forum being held on Sunday March 9. The District Magistrate (DM) SVS Ranga Rao said all the (Block level Officers) BlOs have been asked to remain available in the Chaupal.
If voters fail to find their names in the list, a Form 6 will be available with the BlO. They can fill and submit instantly to update their names. The DM said 21 flying squads will remain active to take stern action on the complaints.
The stock of the arm dealers are being physically verified, no fresh stock of cartridges would be allowed to be sold during elections. The licenced arms will be deposited in the police stations whose owners are on bail in a criminal case or the arms owners who maintain a criminal past or had been involved in electoral offences. Three types of flying squads have been constituted. One is static surveillance team to look into data furnished by contestants, the other is a video surveillance team to view public meetings and the third is a general flying squad to raid the spot on an instant complaint.
The 106 vulnerable and critical polling centres have been detected on the basis of previous record. To control any untoward incident during election, “We expect at least 30 companies of paramilitary forces. The critical centres are those where polling was recorded over 80 per cent. Under such category, 25 polling stations were found where polling was recorded at 80 per cent and 147 stations were found where 75 per cent polling was recorded in the 2009 elections,” claimed SSP Dharmendra Yadav who, also, addressed a Press conference along with the District Magistrate.
The DM said with the announcement of election schedules, the Model Code of Conduct has come into force. All hoardings of politicians are being removed. The expenditure being incurred on them would be realised from the concerned political parties. With the 7,500 civil work force,s the district administration has made 2,225 polling booths in 578 polling stations.