The Election Commission (EC) on Wednesday reviewed the election preparedness in Manipur with a deal with conducting protected elections amid the pandemic.
With this, the Election Commission has ended the train of reviewing election preparedness in all of the 5 states the place meeting elections are due within the subsequent few months. The ballot panel is predicted to announce the election dates for the 5 states quickly.
The Election Commission stated in an announcement that throughout the evaluation assembly, Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra expressed concern to the Manipur Chief Secretary concerning the low vaccination price within the state and requested it to expedite.
The ballot panel emphasised the conduct of protected elections with implementation of COVID protocols like 100% vaccination of all polling employees and correct sanitation and social distancing at polling stations.
“Keeping in view the COVID social-distancing norms, the Commission has particularly revisited sure present norms. Consequently, the utmost variety of electors at a polling station has been diminished from 1,500 to 1,250. This will considerably scale back the variety of voters per polling station.
In Manipur, representatives of political events, State Chief Secretary, DGP, State Police Nodal Officer and State Chief Electoral Officer participated within the digital assembly with the ballot panel.
“The main issues raised by political parties include concerns about money power, illicit liquor, narcotics and threats to influence voters,” the Election Commission assertion stated. “Political parties requested to keep a strict vigil on election expenditure by candidates to ensure free and fair elections.”
Expressing concern concerning the pre-poll violence, political events demanded deployment of sufficient safety forces throughout the election course of and different related measures, they stated, including that additionally they urged for strict COVID protocols to be applied.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
