Addressing the flying squads and local observation teams constituted for observing the activities of lok Sabha candidates, including excess campaign expenses, payment of cash to woo voters, distribution of other materials to the voters, explosives, liquor distribution by anti-social elements, district electoral officer Thakur Ramsingh said that during the inspection the behaviour of the officers should be modest, decent and polite.
He said that according to the ECI instructions, for conducting free and impartial election, the efforts of terrifying, threatening, impressing and bribing the voters should be stopped at any cost. Kanware instructed the officers to stop the use of money power to intimidate voters. He also instructed the officers to check and question suspicious vehicles and persons under the Model Code of Conduct. Purses of women should be checked by women officers only, he added.