Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Naseem Zaidi would be on a three-day visit to lucknow from September 25, to review poll preparedness for the coming Assembly polls in UP slated early next year. Two Election Commissioners A K Joti and Om Prakash Rawat are also likely to accompany the CEC on his first visit to the state for review.
Official sources said that soon after reaching lucknow on Sunday, the ECteam will hold a meeting with representatives of the state and political parties for over two hours at Yojna Bhawan. later, they would confer with officials of Home and Police departments.
On Monday, the Commission will meet District Returning Officers (DMs) and SSsP/ SsP of all 75 districts at Tilak Hall in the Secretariat campus. later, the EC team would meet IGs, DIGs and Nodal Officers along with Chief Electoral Officer of UP, T Venkatesh.
On the last day of their visit on Tuesday, the EC team will meet Nodal Officers from Income Tax, Central Excise, Transport, Narcotics and other departments and thereafter address the media before leaving for New Delhi.
The CEC visit comes a week after Deputy Election Commissioner Vijay Deo visited the state for two days on September 19 -20 and expressed satisfactions on the preparedness including the ongoing summary revision of electoral rolls.