The Election Commission of India (ECI) has directed to conduct re-polling at polling booth number 279 Varoli under Burhanpur Vidhan Sabha seat in lok Sabha constituency Khandwa on Monday. Re-polling will be held from 7 am to 6 pm. Polling parties for re-polling departed from here with material today. All remaining arrangements will be as per recently held elections.
Khandwa returning officer and Burhanpur collector has been asked to inform about departure of polling staff on April 27. The CEO office has directed to ban sale of liquor and declare dry day as per commission's directive.
It may be mentioned here that so far re-polling has been conducted at 10 places including Varoli. In the first phase, re-polling was held at polling booth number 157-Devdandi, 176-Khodargawan and 185-Devgawan under Bandhavgarh Vidhan Sabha seat in Shahdol Parliamentary constituency on April 15. In the second phase, re-polling was held at 6 polling booths on April 22. These included polling booth number 67-Jaderuakalan under Gwalior East Vidhan Sabha constituency in 03-Gwalior Parliamentary constituency, polling booth number 19-Pitua and 22-Bakena under 37-Surkhi Vidhan Sabha seat in 05-Sagar lok Sabha constituency, polling booth number 209 and 210-Barkhera under 154-Govindpura Vidhan Sabha constituency in 19-Bhopal Parliamentary seat and polling booth number 169-Harjipura in 20-Rajgarh Parliamentary constituency.
Meanwhile, the election officials informed here on Sunday that all arrangements have been made for conducting re-polling in a free and fair manner. Polling in this constituency was held on April 24, in the third and last phase of polling in the State.