General and Police Observer met candidates in Chandigarh
Monimala Phukan Borthakur, general observer and JS Kushwah, Police Observer for Chandigarh Parliamentary Constituency held a meeting with the contesting candidates at UT Guest House in the presence of Election officials of Chandigarh Administration here. The returning officer highlighted that the preparations are in full swing for the elections in Chandigarh constituency, which goes to polling on May 19. There are 597 polling booths and 191 polling stations in total. It was also brought out that a strong room has been created at Chandigarh College of Engineering and Technology, Sector 26 wherein proper security arrangements is in place. The candidates were also informed about the EVM machine preparation and randomization. They were encouraged to witness the process in person.
Vote Assistant App to facilitate voters
Haryana chief electoral officer Rajeev Ranjan said that the Election Commission has launched vote assistant app on the pattern of google assistant for the facility of the voters of the state. The voters will get all information related to voting on this app. Ranjan said that this facility is being provided to motivate maximum number of voters in the state to exercise their franchise in the General Elections to Lok Sabha on May 12. With the help of this app, the voter would get information related to their polling booth, name in the voters list, part number, voter serial number and information related to candidates. Besides this, the voters would also get information on this app about people queued up for voting at the polling booth so that the voters can vote as per their convenience. This mobile app would repeatedly remind the voter to vote and after voting the reminder would automatically stop.
BJP has no right to seek vote in UT: Bansal
Congress Lok Sabha candidate Pawan Kumar Bansal on Friday said BJP has no right to seek vote from the people of Chandigarh, seeing their dismal performance in the last five years. Bansal said, “What has the BJP MP done for the city? Chandigarh slipped from rank 1 to 20 in cleanliness and plummet to 67th rank among the 100 smart cities. She failed to generate jobs in city.” Addressing a public meeting in Manimajra here, he said that the city which was known to be safe city across India, is not safe anymore. During 5 years crime incidents have increased in the city, he said. Bansal underlined that in the last 45 years, unemployment rate is highest during the BJP regime.