The polling parties comprising presiding officer, polling officer and police force that were deployed for conducting polling in Chakrata Vidhan Sabha constituency began reaching the counting venue, Maharana Pratap Sports College, Raipur for storing their Electronic Voting Machines from Thursday noon. A total of 192 parties were deployed in Chakrata Vidhan Sabha constituency for conducting polling there.
Soon after completion of polling for lok Sabha election on Wednesday evening, Dehradun District Election Officer and Returning Officer for Tehri lok Sabha seat Dr BVRC Purushottam along with Observers and other police and election officers inspected the counting venue and in presence of senior election officers, polling parties began storing Electronic Voting Machines in the strong room from Wednesday evening.
Security has been beefed up and barricading has been placed at various places around the counting venue. Police has been deployed at the various gates of the campus and limited persons who have permission to enter are allowed to enter the campus of counting venue. CCTV cameras have been placed outside strong room while a police officer and gazetted officer has been deployed to monitor the situation effectively there. All possible steps have been taken to maintain transparency at counting venue, he added.
Purushottam further said that as per Election Commission of India’s guidelines, three tier security arrangements have been in place at the counting venue. Police patrolling has been intensified around the area. Polling parties who were deployed in Chakrata were still reaching the venue till Thursday evening. It should be mentioned here that a total of 1514 polling parties were sent to polling booths for completion of polling for lok Sabha election. The polling parties had
departed for the mountainous region of Chakrata on May 4 in
order to conduct polling
there on May 7.