Assam Elections: Election Commission reviews poll preparedness

Guwahati, Mar 23: The Election Commission of India (ECI) reviewed poll preparedness for the General Elections to the Assam Legislative Assembly 2021, on Mar 23. The review meeting was chaired by the Chief Election Commissioner of India, Sunil Arora at Tezpur as also later at Guwahati. Specific review of COVID arrangements was done with Chief Secretary Sh Jishnu Barua and also issues with DGP Assam Sh B Mohanta.

 

 

 

The Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora directed all the officials to ensure that elections in the state of Assam are conducted in a peaceful, free and fair and safe manner with high voter turnout. Arora reiterated that this time Special General and Police Observers have been associated with randomization of State and Central Armed Police Forces to jointly decide the election security plan.

 

Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra, urged to expedite seizures and asked the departments to establish money trail linkages specifically related to election expenditure. He directed the investigative agencies for better co-ordination and collaboration of data, in order to improve their searches and seizure operations during the election period.

 

 

 

Election Commissioner Rajeev Kumar asked all the agencies to continue with their vigil efforts even after the 3-phased election is over in the state of Assam, as the adjoining state, West Bengal will still be having elections. He also emphasized that the border check posts need to be functioning strictly, till the election results, in order to deter any illegal goods transfer and crossings across the state borders.

 

The state of Assam is scheduled to go to polls in three phases with polls due on Mar 27, Apr 1 and Apr 6 2021 for the 126 Assembly Constituencies across 33530 Polling Stations covering more than 2.33 crore electors.