Chief Electoral Officer, Jharkhand Ravi Kumar said that all necessary measures are being taken by the Election Department to conduct peaceful, clean and fearless polling in 33 Dumri assembly constituency. He also said that a positive role of political parties is also expected in this direction. He informed that transparency is being ensured with the help of modern techniques for fair polling. Through webcasting, all the polling stations will be monitored by the Election Commission of India at the central, state and district levels.
Apart from this, a camera will also be installed outside the polling stations, so that the activities happening in the polling premises can also be monitored. He was addressing a meeting organized with representatives of all recognized political parties in the auditorium of his office at Dhurwa today. In the meeting, the representatives of all the major political parties were apprised of the instructions of the Election Commission of India for the 33rd Dumri Assembly elections.
The Chief Electoral Officer said that elaborate security arrangements have been made in Dumri assembly constituency for voting and counting. He said that the time for voting will be held from 7 am to 5 pm on Tuesday, September 5. The counting of votes is scheduled on September 8 from 8 am in the Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee located at Pachambha in Giridih. A total of 24 rounds of counting are to be done on 16 counting tables for the counting of votes.
In the meeting K. Ravi Kumar said that as per the instructions of the Election Commission of India, apart from voter ID card, Aadhaar card, MGNREGA card, passbook issued by bank/post office, health insurance smart card issued by labour department, driving license can be produced by the voters included in the voter list, PAN Card, Smart Card issued by RGI under NPR, Indian Passport, Pension Papers, Service ID Card of Central/State/PSU/Public Limited Company, Official ID Card issued by MP/MLA/MLC, UDID Card Can be used as an alternate ID card.
The Chief Electoral Officer said that any election including the results of any opinion poll or any other poll survey in any electronic media shall be published during the 48 hours ending at the time fixed for the conclusion of poll in the entire polling area of this bye-election. There will be a ban on the display of the related matter.
He said that office bearers of political parties who are not voters of the concerned assembly constituency should not stay in that area during this period. He informed that polling day has been declared as dry day in Giridih and Bokaro districts.
On this occasion, OSD of Chief Electoral Officer's office Geeta Choubey, Under Secretary Devdas Dutta, Deputy Electoral Officer Headquarters Sanjay Kumar and representatives of all major recognized political parties were present.
