The district administration has completed all preparations for the Haryana Assembly General Election-2019 to be conducted in a peaceful, free and fair manner in the district.
On Monday, 12,10,398 voters of the district will decide the fate of 54 candidates. These include 5,323 service voters.
This time 6,40,835 male and 5,69,529 female voters and 34 transgenders will exercise their franchise in Gurugram district. Polling will begin at 7.00 am and will continue till 6.00 pm.
The 54 candidates in Gurugram district will contest in four Assembly constituencies. These include 11 candidates in Pataudi constituency, 15 in Badshahpur, 16 in Gurugram and 12 in Sohna.
According to District Election Officer and Deputy Commissioner Amit Khatri, a total of 1172 polling stations have been set up in the district for polling, on which polling the staff of 1407 have been deployed to conduct polling in district Gurugram peacefully out of which 292 in Pataudi assembly constituency, 286 in Sohna assembly constituency, 395 in Gurugram assembly constituency and 434 in Badshahpur assembly constituency. Apart from these, 8 Pink Booths Sakhi Booth and 8 Model Booth have also been constructed this time.
"At Pink booths, the entire staff will be of women, while special arrangements will be made at the model booth for the convenience of voters such as installing signboards, wheelchairs for the disabled, voter facilitation centres and beautification of booths," Khatri said.
"To ensure peaceful and fair elections at all polling stations, 44 zonal magistrates have been appointed in district Gurugram. Similarly, 88 Sector Officers, 25 Flying Squad Teams, 17 Static Surveillance Teams, 4 Video Viewing Teams, 4 Video Surveillance Teams, 4 Accounting Teams and 4 Expenditure Observers have been deployed in District Gurugram," the DC said.
The commission has also deployed micro observers at some polling stations to monitor law and order, which will periodically report the voting to the commission. 31 Pataudi assembly constituencies, 39 in Gurugram assembly constituency, 41 in Badshahpur assembly constituency and 28 micro observers have been appointed in Sohna assembly constituency.
"In the district, the duty of 285 officers and employees has been put up for counting, out of which the staff of 114 officers and employees have been deployed in Badshahpur assembly constituency while 57--57 each in other three assembly constituencies. Also, the officers and staff posted on election duty, a staff of 619 people has been kept in reserve," he asserted.