First Section Polling For Chhattisgarh Rural Our bodies On Tuesday
Elaborate safety preparations had been made for non violent behavior of the polling
Raipur:
The primary section of polling for panchayat our bodies in Chhattisgarh can be hung on Tuesday amid tight safety. The vote casting will quilt some spaces falling in Maoist-affected districts.
“Arrangements had been made for the primary section of polling for posts of 36,473 ward panch, four,620 sarpanch, 1,144 janpad panchayat member and 167 posts of zila panchayat participants,” State election commissioner Thakur Ram Singh stated at a press convention right here on Monday.
Elaborate safety preparations had been made for non violent behavior of the polling, he stated.
Within the first section, a complete of 61,74,224 electorate – 30,85,320 men, 30,88,835 women and 69 of the 3rd gender – unfold throughout 847 gram panchayats in 57 construction blocks can be eligible to workout their franchise, he stated.
For this leg, 12,572 polling cubicles had been arrange and polling events have began achieving their respective locations, he added. The primary spherical of the three-phase three-tier Panchayati Raj elections would make a decision the destiny of one,16,776 applicants, he stated.
The polling time within the insurgency-hit Dantewada, Sukma, Narayanpur and Bijapur districts and Jagdalpur, Lohandiguda, Bastanar and Darbha blocks of Bastar district, Antagarh, Kayalibeda, Bhanupratappur and Durgukondal blocks of Kanker district can be from 6.45 am to two pm on account of Maoist risk. In other places, vote casting can be held from 7 am to three pm.
In keeping with police, Maoist in faraway villages of Bastar had lately submit posters calling for a boycott of the panchayat polls.
In view of this, further safety preparations had been made at polling cubicles in delicate places, whilst patrolling has been intensified within the forests of Bastar department, they stated.
The second one and 3rd section of polling is scheduled for January 31 and February three, respectively. Paper ballots are being utilized in those elections.
Counting can be held in respective polling cubicles quickly after polling is over in each and every section, Singh stated.
Alternatively, whether it is deemed vital to hold out counting at block headquarters in case of any factor then such enumeration of votes can be held at block headquarters on January 29, February 1 and February four, for first, 2nd and 3rd stages respectively, he stated.
