Following on the appeal of candidates who are in the fray of local body polls and people request, the location of seven polling booths have been shifted to other places in the city. The new booths were decided after conducting verification of the site by SDM and Tehsildar, said Dehradun district election officer BVRC Purushottam on Thursday. FIR against the candidates will be lodged if they found conducting public meeting after 5 pm on Friday.
While addressing the mediapersons, Purushottam said that the location of polling booth 55-Ambedkar Junior High School, Dl Road (ward number -9, Dl Road) has been shifted to 55-Dehra Public School, Dl Road due to inadequacy of space there.
The location of polling booth 183-Government Primary School, Shahnagar (ward number – 32, Defense Colony) have been shifted to 183- Municipal Corporation office, Chakshahnagar, near Vidhan Sabha by keeping in mind of three kilometres away from voters’ locality.
DEO also corrected the printing mistakes, 196-St Agnis School Nehru Colony (ward number 34) to 196 St Anis School, Nehru Colony; 236- Guru Ram Ray Public School, Race Course (ward number-39) to Vani Jain Inter College; 91- junior high school Subhash Nagar, Gupta Store street (ward number 47) to Government Primary School Subhash Nagar; 373- Government Primary school Prempur, Mafi (ward number-60) to Government Purva Madhyamik School, Prempur Mafi and 43-Riverdel School Senior (ward number-27) to 43 Summer Valley School Senior.
All the candidates have been directed to submit their election expenditure to their respective returning officers on given date. Action will be taken against the candidates who fail to submit their complete election expenditure.
Following the direction state election commission, the candidature of three candidates was canceled this year. These candidates had not submitted their election expenditure in the previous election, he informed.
Election officials have been directed to ensure that senior citizen and handicapped persons should be facilitated at polling booths. Due to error committed by the election officials, around 125 persons, whose name missing in the electoral list, will not be able to exercise their votes in this election.
Voters will have to push two buttons in electronic voting machine (EVM) while exercising their vote for the post of mayor and councilor. This year, voters will have option of right to reject of above candidates and for this, they will have to push stop button.
Beside EPIC, voter can show their driving license, PAN card, passport, gun license, house bill, students identity card, library card, electricity bill, telephone bill, Income certificate, gas connection and others for their identification at polling booths.
In another development, Purushottam has directed the excise officer to ensure that all the liquor shops should be closed on April 28 and April 30. The sale of liquors has been banned on above mentioned date and action will be taken if anyone violates.