Statesman News Service
MALDA, March 23: The Malda district magistrate, Mr Sridhar Ghosh will hold a meeting with the BSF officers soon seeking their cooperation for the upcoming parliamentary elections.
The meeting was scheduled to be held last evening but due to unavoidable circumstances it was cancelled. The district magistrate said: “We need to talk to BSF officers regarding security issues related to border villages. BSF's cooperation is required not only to maintain proper vigilance near the border areas but also for the upcoming parliamentary election as parties will want to campaign in border villages”.
A few days back, the CPI-M leaders had lodged a complaint alleging that the BSF were preventing their party workers from campaigning in the border villages. Following instructions from the election commission, the district magistrate also said that the administration will hire digital video cameras to check violation of Model Code of Conduct.
Mr Sridhar Ghosh said that digital camera-men will be deployed in at least 20-25 percent polling stations on the basis of identified sensitive booths. Micro Observers will also be deployed in 25 percent booths which are identified as hyper sensitive. In Malda district, a total of 2,421 polling stations have been set up including nearly 600 auxiliary ones.
The district election officials also released a schedule that said the last date of nomination is 9 April. Scrutiny will be held on 11 April and 13 April will be the last date of nomination withdrawal for the election on 30 April.
No comments:
Post a Comment