The Commissionerate police and district magistrates here on Wednesday discussed measures in details to hold the February 6 CMC elections in a free, fair and peaceful manner. At a coordination meeting, it was decided that the model code of conduct for the elections would be enforced strictly and the violators shall be prosecuted as per the laws governing elections.
City DCP S Praveen Kumar said that for maintaining law and order, the city has been divided into eight sectors and five zones. “A sector will be headed by an ACP and a zone will be under the supervision of an Additional DCP,” Kumar said, adding that 39 mobile police team would move around the city to ensure enforcement of the model code of conduct.
“Besides accompanying the polling parties, police deployments would be made at the polling booths as per the requirements. The police would soon prepare a list of sensitive and hypersensitive booths in the city after evaluating the law and order of the locality,” he said.
CMC Election Officer laxmidhar Mohanty said that from the general administration point of view, the entire city has been divided into five zones and 20 sectors. A zone would be under the observation of a poll observer, and a sector officer would head a sector to oversee the poll arrangements in at least three wards. The CMC has 59 wards. Meanwhile, political parties have stepped up their campaign. The Independent candidates are not lagging behind.