After peaceful completion of the polling in the State on Wednesday, polling parties with Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) have started reaching their respective counting centres across the region from different polling booths.
While many polling parties reached their respective counting centres along with the EVMs on the same polling day i.e. Wednesday, some of the polling parties along with EVMs reached their respective counting centres on Thursday.
The officials concerned of the Udham Singh Nagar district administration informed that all the EVMs used to cover polling of all the nine assembly constituencies of the district, have been kept at the strong room set up at the Bagwara Mandi Samiti in Rudrapur amid tight security arrangements.
As many as nine strong rooms have been setup at the Bagwara mandi samiti for all nine assembly constituencies of Udham Singh Nagar, further said the officials concerned.
Udham Singh Nagar District Magistrate Pankaj Kumar Pandey along with General Observer S K Jha and other officials concerned also inspected the strong room at the Bagwara Mandi Samiti on Thursday and asked the officials concerned to maintain proper security arrangements.
In the meantime, the Almora district administration has also claimed that all the polling parties with EVMs have reached district headquarter from different polling booths of the district and all the EVMs have been kept at the counting centre amid high security presence, said Vinod Kumar Suman, District Magistrate Almora.
In the presence of General Observer Pawan Kumar Sharma and other officials concerned, all the EVMs have been kept in the strong room in the police custody, added Suman. Similarly, the polling parties with EVMs have also started reaching to their respective polling centres in other districts of the Kumaon division. The EVMs used to cover polling in all six assembly constituencies of the Nainital district have been kept at the strong room set up at the MBPG college Haldwani.