Statesman News Service
MALDA, Jan. 4: Security arrangements are complete for the high-profile Sujapur Assembly by-election scheduled for tomorrow. Central paramilitary forces have been deployed at sensitive booths in anticipation of disturbances. The polling officials are reported to have already reached 208 booths, many of which have been declared sensitive.
Forty micro-observers have been appointed, who are expected to reach the polling booths either tonight or early tomorrow to monitor the polling process. These observers would report to the state election commission via the general observers posted here.
Following the Election Commission guidelines, one digital photographer has been posted at each booth to take photographs of the whole polling process. CRPF personnel have already taken position in several sensitive places to ensure peaceful polling. An estimated 1,66,920 voters are expected to exercise their franchise for tomorrow's by-election.
Both the Congress and the CPI-M had lodged complaints against each other apprehending malpractice on polling day.
The CPI-M district leadership has already charged the administration with conniving with the Congress. A number of unregistered two-wheelers have been pressed into campaigning with the district administration looking the other way in flagrant violation of the Election Commission directives.
Both the Congress candidate Miss Mousam Noor (27), a niece of the late ABA Ghani Khan Choudhury and the CPI-M candidate, Ketabuddin Sheikh (55), sounded confident on the eve of the election.
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