April 27, 2024
April 27, 2024
YUPIA, Mar 27: Amit Dhaka and Om Prakash Tripathy, the general and police observers for the elections to the Parliament and Legislative Assembly for Papum Pare district respectively, reviewed the election preparedness with the SPs and election nodal officers at the DC’s office here.
Dhaka, who is also the general observer for Lower Subansiri and Keyi Panyor districts, called for concerted efforts from all the officers assigned to election duties to work in tandem to ensure free and fair elections.
He highlighted Itanagar as the focal point for outflow of freebies to lure voters, calling for intensive checking by the Flying Squad Teams (FSTs) and Statics Surveillance Teams (SSTs). Dhaka also took stock of the voter registration updates, manpower, and EVM randomizations process, and called for absolute care to avoid any procedural lapses.
Police Observer Prakash, who is also the observer for 10 more districts, urged all to implement the Model Code of Conduct in letter and spirit. He informed about the ECI’s cVigil app, which can be used to register complaints on MCC violation in real-time, and further urged all the officers to disseminate the information to all.
Papum Pare DEO Jiken Bomjen briefed about the election related activities and the district's preparedness for peaceful elections.
Papum Pare SP Taru Gusar and ICR SP Rohit Rajbir and Naharlagun SP Mihin Gambo presented the election preparedness of their department.
They briefed about the communication plan, vulnerability mapping, deployment of SSTs and FSTs, arms license deposition, manpower deployment for all the three assembly constituencies under Papum Pare district.
SP Gusar also spoke about the establishment of integrated check gates at Kimin, Hollongi and Gumto which shares borders with neighbouring Assam to intensify cross border influx of cash and freebies.
"We have had a series of meetings with the Assam counterpart to ensure peaceful elections," Gusar informed while stating that the "Assam counterpart has assured full cooperation."
After the meeting, both the observers visited the strong room at the Golden Jubilee Outdoor Stadium.
