District Administration has asked citizens specially senior citizens and women to deposit their licenced guns or if they do not wish to would have to duly apply for the purpose to the District Election Officer ahead of the State Assembly elections.
District Election Officer and Collector Nishant Warwade, while talking to media persons, informed that if a person was in possession of a licenced arm due to threat to his life and if they wished to continue to hold it could apply to the SDM for the same. The SDM would review and then forward the application to District Election Officer and Collector who would take decision. Providing details of randomisation, Warwade further informed that the randomisation of EVM machines would be started from 6 am on Friday at TT Nagar Stadium and would continue till the completion of the process.
Regarding employees deployed during the election duty Warwade said that they would be encouraged to cast their vote through postal ballot. For the first time, bus conductors have been trained regarding postal ballot in their respective premises as it was hard for them to attend training at a specific place and time. Training of micro observers has been conducted and the training is continuously going on.
The Officer further informed that if any platform was used to promote political figure in that case the expense of the election budget would be added to the election budget fixed by the election commission. District Panchayat vice-president Kalpana Meena has been issued showcause notice in the digging work of water taps in Samardha village.