To ensure a good turn-out and facilitate better atmosphere to the public, Election Commission has decided to provide a booth to everyone within 2 kilometers radius as well as to start voting from 6am so that voters could avoid scorching heat in summers. He also confirmed that elephants would be not covered this time as done earlier while the word (Samajwadi) could be used by the ruling Party on ambulances.
Addressing the media persons here on Friday evening, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Umesh Sinha, said that the proposal to start voting two hours ahead of schedule would get clearance of the Election Commission soon. He said that they made a standard of 3200 votes which can be casted at one polling centre in a day so they decided to make one polling centre for per thousand voters.
He claimed that the Commission is strictly following the Model Code of Conduct and directed that no one could use official machinery, official premises, religious places etc for campaigning. He also directed to keep a close eye on `paid news’ a many parties or their leaders used media for their campaigning through this form of news item. He said that in the elections in Western UP which will go polls in the first phase for which notification will be issued on Saturday, the entire area will be handed over to the jawans of Central Para-Military Forces (CPMF) at least a fortnight before the polling. He said that nomination process for the 10 Parliament seats for which notification will be made on Saturday, would start from 11am onwards. The polling for first phase will be made on April 10.