The din and bust of electioneering for Indore lok Sabha seat will come to an end on Tuesday at 6 pm. After end of electioneering, the candidates of various political parties can undertake house to house contact. During the house to house contacts, the candidates would not be allowed to carry more than five persons and they would not be allowed to carry out party flags or banners during their public contact drive, as per the directives of the Election Commission. Any violation of electoral code of conduct would invite disciplinary action against them.
This was informed in the fourth meeting of the standing committee attended by the district collector Akash Tripathi, Election Commission observer VK Meena, DIG Rakesh Gupta, other senior district officials as well as representatives of various political parties.
Collector informed that 97% of voters slips have already been distributed for Indore lok Sabha elections. The remaining 2% voters lists would be distributed at the election booths on the date of voting, he said adding that representatives of the candidates can set up their booths only after 200 meters of election booths.
DIG Rakesh Gupta briefing about law and order position, said that an elaborate security arrangements have been made throughout the district to ensure there is no violation of law and order position. Currently 300 mobile teams comprising police jawans, flying squad and magistrates are keeping a constant tab on law and order situations throughout the district. In addition to this, CRPF jawans would be deputed at all 197 polling booths across the district to ensure there is no violation of law and order position during the course
of polling.
District collector informed that sales and purchase of liquor will be completely prohibited after end of electioneering from 6 pm on April 22 to the end of voting on April 24. Disciplinary action would be taken against those who will be found violating the district administration’s order, he added.
There are 23 candidates in the electoral fray for Indore lok Sabha constituency. However, the main fight is between Sumitra Mahajan of the BJP and Satyanarayan Patel of the Congress party. Though Samajwadi Party and the Aaam Admi Party have also fielded its candidates in the fray, their influence in the constituency are strictly restricted to limited pockets and their presence will unlikely to have any bearing on the poll outcome, political observers here say.
Meanwhile, the district administration in order to ensure peaceful and fair polling, has decided to enforce section 144 throughout the district. The order will remain ef fective from 6 pm on April 21 to 6 pm on April 24.