In a bid to conduct free and fair lok Sabha election, Dehradun District Election Officer (DEO) and the District Magistrate BVRC Purushottam held an assessment meeting of Additional Returning Officers (AROs) and nodal officers at collectorate on Wednesday.
While chairing the meeting, Purushottam instructed officials to discharge their work assigned honestly and understand their duties so that there was no scope of any irregularity. The DEO said that every procession, election meeting and roadshow of political parties should be allowed only after prior approval.
He clarified that for Chakrata Assembly segment ARO Ashok Pandey, Vikas nagar Arvind Pandey, Sahaspur N S Dangi, Rishikesh Santosh Pandey and Ramji Sharan for Mussoorie assembly segment are the officers responsible for giving these permissions. City Magistrate GS Gunwant would give permissions for the Diowala, Rajpur, and Raipur, Dharampur and Cantt areas of the city. Actions as per the provisions of the laws should be taken against those violating the model code of conduct.
DEO directed all AROs to inform the permission for political processions given by them to the District Surveillance Team, media authorisation committee and the income expenditure committee. He also advised them to work in tandem with each other so that there was no scope of error. Purushottam also asked them to keep a proper data in their registers and cautioned the officers to be vigilant about violations of model code of conduct. Chief Development Officer (CDO) Alok Kumar Pandey, Additional District Magistrate (ADM) Sonika, ADM Pratap Sah, Chief Treasury Officer Jagat Singh Chouhan and all returning officers were present in the meeting.