Delhi will have a total number of 13,818 polling stations in the national Capital for the seven Lok Sabha seats for which election commission has identified 2,700 spots across the city where these stations will be set up. The commission has also decided to set up two auxiliary polling stations in South and West Delhi. Polling for the seven parliamentary seats in the National Capital will take place on May 12.
Besides this, the office of the Chief Electoral Office (CEO) has also declared about 30 hamlets situated across the city mostly in North East and East Delhi as ‘Vulnerable to threat and intimidation’. For such places, the CEO office has also identified such hamlets where about 30 polling stations would be set up.
Most of these polling station are also falls on some parts of South Delhi such as Masjid Moth, Lado Sarai , Shahpur Jat, Tehkhand, KM Pur Village and Neb Sarai and others.
Further, North East and East Delhi’s Nizamuddin, Garhi-Moholla, Bhogal, Okhla, Shaheen Bagh, Taimoor Nagar and Shahdara, Rohtash Nagar, Seelampur, Jangpura, Kasturba Nagar, Madangir and Sangam Vihar. Shaheen Bagh and Abul Fazal Enclave areas in Okhla. As per the officials, these areas have about 19 criminal history because of which the areas has been considered as susceptible to threat and intimidation during election time.
The Delhi CEO Ranbir Singh had earlier said that the commission have mapped such areas under the ‘Vulnerable Hamlets’ where the voters can be influenced by various anti-social elements and also these have history of communal clashes and intense political rivalry.
“Keeping all such incidents in mind, the commission will deploy special security team in all these stations and also the team will keep a close eye these areas through the CCTV cameras,” said an official.