Raipur, November 17
After successfully conducting first round of assembly polls in naxal-infested Bastar division and Rajnandgaon district, the Election Commission (EC) will hold second and final phase of elections in 72 constituencies under 19 districts on November 19. A total of 1,39,75,470 voters will decide fate of 843 candidates in the second round. The polling time will be from 8 am to 5 pm. Besides police and paramilitary forces, the commission will monitor polling through 3000 camerabs.
Considering expanded naxal domain in Surajpur and Balrampur districts of Sarguja division and Mahasamund, Gariyaband, Dhamtari and Balod districts, the EC has pressed additional forces in these areas.
The poll campaigning for second phase in State concluded at 5 pm on Sunday, i.e. 48 hours before polling day. The political parties have now started the door-to-door campaign to woo voters.
Among 72 seats, 46 belong to general category, 17 are reserved for ST and nine for SC. Of the total 1,39,75,470 voters, 71,39,631 are male and 68,30,179 are female. The chief electoral officer Sunil Kujur informed that on the basis of census 2011, the EC had estimated 2,21,83,167 population of 72 constituencies in 2013. The electoral population (EP) ratio of the projected population is 62.97.
Kujur further informed that 99.76% voters had been distributed Electors Photo Id-Card (EPIC) while percentage of photo elector rolls was 99.91 in 72 Vidhan Sabhas.
The number of female contestants out of total 843 candidates is 75. There are 236 candidates from recognised national political parties, 289 from registered political parties and 318 independents.
The maximum number of candidates in fray is in Raipur City South, i.e. 38 while minimum number is in Saraipali, i.e. five. There are total 11 constituencies where number of candidates is more than 16. These areas are Kota, Lormi, Takhatpur, Beltara, Chandrapur, Kasdol, Raipur City South, Durg City, Bhilai Nagar, Vaishalinagar and Bemetara. The EC has provided two ballot units (BU) in ten of these areas and three BUs in Raipur City South.
There are total 18,015 polling stations of which 665 are auxiliary booths. The commission has declared 4594 polling centres as sensitive and 1398 as hyper sensitive.
The EC has constituted 20,000 polling parties to smoothly conduct polls. The total number of polling staff engaged in second phase is 80,000. There are 18,015 control units (CU) and 20,957 BUs.
To keep hawk’s eye on polling procedures, the EC has appointed 4675 micro-observers, 19 police observers, 22 expenditure observers, 72 assistant expenditure observers and 72 general observers. Besides, 216 flying squads, 216 statistics teams, 75 video monitoring teams, 75 video surveillance teams and 19 media certification and monitoring committees (MCMC) too have been constituted.
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