{"id":311299,"date":"2019-04-16T05:27:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T05:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311299"},"modified":"2019-04-16T05:27:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T05:27:12","slug":"ec-reviews-poll-arrangements-with-central-observers-in-tripura-and-west-bengal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/ec-reviews-poll-arrangements-with-central-observers-in-tripura-and-west-bengal\/","title":{"rendered":"EC reviews poll arrangements with Central Observers in Tripura and West Bengal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Election Commission of India led by Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora and Election Commissioners Ashok Lavasa and Sushil Chandra on Monday reviewed Poll Arrangements in specific constituencies of West Bengal and Tripura, which are going to polls in Phase 2 and 3 of ongoing General Elections for Lok Sabha 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

The review through\u00a0video conferencing was held with General Observers, Police Observers and Expenditure Observers deployed in Phase 2 and Phase 3 Parliamentary Constituencies in West Bengal and Phase 2 (final phase) of Tripura i.e. 2-Tripura East Parliamentary Constituency.<\/span><\/p>\n

The General Observers briefed the Commission on the preparedness in terms of Assured Minimum Facilities (AMF) at the Polling Stations; mapping of PWDs and the arrangements made for their facilitation at the Polling Stations; Awareness amongst the voters that Photo Voter Slips (PVSs) will no longer be treated as the Identification document but that the Voter has to necessarily bring \u00a0one of the 12 specified Identification Documents to be shown at the Polling Station on the poll day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Commission also reviewed the complaints, if any, from Political Parties, etc as received by Observers and their status. The preventive actions taken against the identified trouble makers and potential intimidators were also reviewed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Commission reviewed at length the Central Armed Police Forces deployment status in each of the Parliamentary Constituencies. The Police Observers briefed about\u00a0Preparation of District Security\/Force Deployment plan; Use of Central Paramilitary Forces for area domination and confidence building measures and the Law and Order situation. The Special Central Police Observer for West Bengal and Jharkhand, Vivek Dube and M K Das, the Special Central Police Observer for Tripura and Mizoram were also present i n the meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Expenditure Observers informed the Commission about\u00a0Deployment of Flying Squads (FS), Static Surveillance Teams (SST), Video Surveillance Teams, Complaint Monitoring Cell, Seizures made by FS, SST & Police and\u00a0Inspection of Candidates Accounts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Commission impressed upon all the Observers to remain on constant vigil and ensure that the polls are conducted in absolutely free, fair and credible manner.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Election Commission of India led by Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora and Election Commissioners Ashok Lavasa and Sushil Chandra on Monday reviewed Poll Arrangements in specific constituencies of West Bengal and Tripura, which are going to polls in Phase 2 and 3 of ongoing General Elections for Lok Sabha 2019. The review through\u00a0video conferencing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":301080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[308,751,411],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311300,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311299\/revisions\/311300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}