The election officers should ensure that all the polling booths of their areas have the basic amenities like drinking water, electricity, toilet and ramp for handicapped and they should make such arrangements so that the polling is conducted in free and fair manner.
The observers designated by the Election Commission of India for the Tehri lok Sabha Constituency said this while convening a meeting with election officers, district police head and Assistant Returning Officers (AROs) at collectorate here on Sunday.
The observers H Mohan and KC Gupta reviewed the election preparedness and asked the officials to take special care of booths located in far flung areas. They also inquired about district wise list of sensitive and hyper sensitive booths and asked the District Election Officer (DEO) and police officials to act swiftly in any irregularity.
The observers asked the officials to make advance preparations for polls and be prepared to meet any exigency. Asking the officials to strictly ensure the implementation of Model Code of Conduct (MCC) Observer Gupta said no posters, banners or any poll material should be pasted on the Government buildings and election officers should issue notices to the violators. He told the officers to monitor the issuance of permissions for programs of the political parties and make sure that MCC is not violated.
Gupta said that videography of the meetings of star campaigners of political parties should be done and MCMC teams should keep strict vigil on the election related advertisements and any form of paid news in both print and electronic media. He said that special supervisors should be deployed for monitoring the electioneering of political parties and any violation should be immediately forwarded to election office.
In the meeting the District returning officer BVRC Purushottam, Tehri District Magistrate (DM) Yugal Kishore Pant, DM Uttarkashi Sridhar Babu Aadaki, SSP Dehradun Ajay Rautela, SSP Tehri Garhwal JJ Khanduri, SSP Uttarkashi JR Joshi and all ARO’s were present.